>> >>doesn't leave an awful lot of time in between to do any work
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>> There is as they say, the rub. A largely unregulated sector of the workplace. No
>> overtime payments, 04.00 starts, midnight finishes etc not uncommon, lots of weekend and evening work,
>> trade shows etc. 80 hour weeks normal. Lunch breaks? Ha Ha ! Holidays? If you
>> can afford to take the time off - ( no sales = no commission )
>> Lions share of pay related to results.
Sounds like a lot of work. I've done those sorts of hours before, but not in sales. You can only keep going for so long. Must be a high turnover of staff with people getting burned out. I don't think it too healthly to work those hours for years. Unless there's lots of extreme workaholics.
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>> Some would say virtual slavery. But, there's a queue for every job, and most of
>> the people doing it I know would rather live like that than drive down the
>> same road to the same desk to do the same things, with the same people
>> in the same office/factory every day/week/month/year for life.
>>
There are jobs in between you know! :-)
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