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**Tadpole** · 04-19-2006, 06:38 AM

Ok is anyone familiar with The Southwestern Co.?

Im going to be working with them this summer. They work with only college kids and they have been doing it for 150 years. The average student makes $8,000 but you have to work like 80+ hours a week and 6 days a week. You get paid commision, so you're not guarenteed anything. You get college fredit for sales and marketing classes. You reloacted to somewhere else for the entire summer and you stay with a host family. The Clemson (South Carolina) team is either going to Minnisota, Colorodo, or Utah. We leave a week after school and get back a week before school.

Its about as far from the average summer job as you can get. But the experience, knowledge, and obviously the money is well above what the "Average" college kid will gain this summer. The money isnt a driving force or a motive but it defianlty is a Plus

The company works worldwide and deals with about 3,000 students each summer and does about 60 million dollars in sales each summer. Each student goes door to door. We sell student handbooks, SAT preps, and a whole mutlitude of education products. The alumni list consists of multiple senators and multiple governeors like the govenor of Mississppi and Texas. The products are widely used and arent cheap. They've been doing it for 150 years and they havent surived that long off of bad ethics and crappy products. Each product has won multiple awards. They been on everything from the Dave Ramsey Show to The Today Show.

Im really looking forward to it. The record first year dealer made a cash profit of $42,000 in the 3 months of selling. Im going to break it

(uhhh i hope haha)

Plus, i will be able tyo travel more with a little extra cash

uhhhh so back to my question haha, Is anyone familiar with the Southwestern Co.?

**simply_angelic** · 04-19-2006, 08:11 AM

Nope. but semi-ish am now! Damn...now I want to do that! Ah well, good luck! Sounds like fun, I'm so competitive, any challenge enthuses me

**Tadpole** · 04-19-2006, 12:39 PM

Its a very competitive line of work. Everyone is trying to beat the guy/girl beside him and the organiztion is divided up into Divisons and Regions to make it even more competitive.

**TheJake** · 04-19-2006, 01:14 PM

yeah i've had enough of sales to hate it.

**omisan** · 04-19-2006, 01:30 PM

I met a couple of girls in Prague who had worked for them last year, in the great, cosmopolitan area known as Riverside, CA. They thought it was great in that they made a lot of friends, but otherwise thought it was too much work for too little money.

**Somnambulation** · 04-19-2006, 05:40 PM

Door to door sales is rough from what Ive heard, though Ive never done it. Do you at least get free room and board?

Omi, Riverside is an odd city, extremely wealthy areas and extreme shitholes right next to each other. Although Im surprised those girls werent kidnapped and killed knocking on doors by some freaked out meth head inside.

**Tadpole** · 04-19-2006, 07:39 PM

Its 12 dollars a week for the host family. Its defiantly rough. No one does it for the enjoyment of knocking on door after door after door....for 3 motnhs straight. Its what you learn and gain after your able to do it.

**omisan** · 04-20-2006, 12:22 AM

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Although Im surprised those girls werent kidnapped and killed knocking on doors by some freaked out meth head inside.

Bwah! I asked one of 'em if they'd encountered any meth labs while doing their rounds.