@reasoning logic,
I wrote:For a long time, I made my living hawking directly to the public in street corner and storefront sales. Or I'd stand outside the fair entrance and sell to the crowds waiting in line. It was fun and a lot more lucrative than one might imagine.
Olivier5 wrote:interesting. May I ask what you were selling?
reasoning logic wrote:What were you peddling?
Prepaid funeral expenses . . .
NOT!
Newspaper subscriptions. Can you believe it? OK, here's a secret if you need a job and don't mind gabbing with folks. Every paper needs subscriptions to stay alive in this market, what with competition from every sort of electronic medium. And advertisers still pay top dollar for folks who can get hard copy into the hands of buyers. If you write the right kind of orders, the publisher will pay commissions equal to or in excess of the subscription cost. When I got good at it, I could make $100+ per hour. Gads, it was fun! I'd walk parade routes before the parade, and pitch folks in groups as they waited on the sidewalk. I had a few worn out one liners that I worked over and over.
Finally, my football knees took me out. I managed a small crew, but it was not as much fun so I retired about 6 years ago. I still get to hawk a few days a month at gun shows for memories' sake. But it's sit down stuff.
