Pros
In all honesty, the job itself when working as it should be, was fun. Decent level of training during the introductory fortnight.
Cons
The job is entirely commission (so no base salary whatsoever) which would be fine, however the commission is only 7%. I was one of the top sellers in my district and even then struggled to make ends meet in this commission structure. Often I would go weeks without a ‘hot’ lead, meaning that the vast majority of appointments I went to were for customers who had zero intention of buying anything, didn’t care for the product, or simply didn’t understand how the process worked and now there’s a strange man on their doorstep! There are a lot of posts about favouritism on this page, and sadly I must agree. If you were a favourite, and this is from experience for at one point I was, you will get appointments 10 minutes away from your house (opposed to the frequent 1 hour drives). These appointments will also be ‘hot’ I.e the customer has purchased from Hammonds before, they’ve booked an appointment directly from a showroom, and they’ve been specific in their design requests. If you were unlucky enough not to be a favourite, look forward to long drives at 11pm (last appointments end at 10pm), having zero structure to your pay scale (And if you earn commission they will often not pay you the full amount and you have to fight this for weeks) and constant messages from customers who have been mucked about by head office! Also to mention, there’s absolutely zero career progression. You can in theory become a trainer or district manager, but it seems that the former are all locked in so a definite glass ceiling there, and the latter is a revolving door that no one wants to do. Also, you don’t get petrol or travel allowances. They try to spin the fact that you’re technically self-employed as a fuel allowance, but it’s literally just a perk of being self-employed.