A sales agent argues people hate work because of the middle part: constant rejections, chargebacks, and angry customers. If you made $250,000 a year knocking on 52 doors daily, the discomfort wouldn't matter. The real problem is lacking control over your earnings, so one rejection tanks your motivation.
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Forget getting better. I was an over-analytical lazy agent and I said, I'm tired. I'm just going to go do more and I'll worry about all the getting better stuff later. Because I knew if I— I knew how many people I saw equaled X amount of money. Does that make sense? Whatever the number was here, it equaled money eventually. What do people hate in this business? The thing in the middle of the number and the money. The nos, the work, the chargebacks, the cancels, the leads yelling at you, the agents quitting. The stuff in the middle is what people hate. But if I said just go bang on 52 doors around Chicago and I'd pay you $250 grand a year, but you had to bang on 52 doors a day, don't care what they say, I'll pay you $250 grand. Would you care about the middle anymore? Absolutely not. Okay, so now do you have enough control up here to not care when you're not making the money? That part, that's the catch. You do an activity, they say no, you go into depression. There's no money. So what do you do? Let— do now? You do less of it for some weird reason.