<p>Hawkace – the link for the program is <a href=“http://www.godiscovery.com”>www.godiscovery.com</a></p>
<p>10giraffe1 – I think that Discovery does a good job of marketing the sex appeal of the job so it can come off fishy, but once you really look into the job you’ll see it’s the kind of job of extremes. Obviously they’ll tell you about all the reps at the top end and all the cool stuff they do, and not talk much about the bottom reps, so I’d suggest using the averages to base your decision on applying. I’ll be honest in saying it’d be unlikely for you to go down your first summer and make more than $30,000, which is what seems a lot of reps come down their first year expecting to be better than everyone else. If you’re good coming down and working 6 days a week to make likely around $13,000-17,000, with always the possibility of more or less, then you’ll probably end up satisfied.</p>
<p>My costs would include:
- $250 in gas to and from the US, $125 each way (carpooled with another rep)
- $375 for travel insurance and half the cost of the work permit
- $500 approximately for my gas costs during the summer
- $200 ($50/month) for a prepaid cell phone plan (used my Canadian cell with a US SIM card)
- $1500 approximately for groceries and eating out
- $1000 give or take on random expenses mostly on weekends, doing touristy stuff</p>
<p>Call it roughly $3,500-4,000 that I spent overall. I came away with about $21,000 in profit this past summer, and my first year came away with about $12,000 in my pocket after it was all said and done. I did get to live for free though, so that’s about $2,000 or so I saved from spending if I stayed in Canada.</p>
<p>I personally had a great experience in and out of work my two summers, I really did enjoy it. I came down looking to work hard though and had a pretty good grasp on what to expect.</p>
<p>I actually did win a few prizes! I won tickets to a Whiz Khalifa concert, some gift cards and then the best was definitely the MacBook I won in a March madness style sales tournament. A lot of the incentives they do are just office wide though that everyone gets, and then I got to go on a year end cruise through California and Mexico for signing on to return the following year. The prizes and incentives are definitely one of the things that make the job worthwhile outside of the money.</p>
<p>I do feel like the job has helped me in terms of the future, you really do learn in depth about communication and interpersonnel skills, it may be a sales job but the intense training in sales techniques and overall persuasion are useful in almost every day to day thing we do. There isn’t a rep who doesn’t come back from this job without increasing their confidence level and frankly I feel if you can finish a summer and be successful knocking doors, it gives you a much better perspective and ability to handle future jobs ahead. The job is just so much more real world experience that is end of the day dependent on you, which really forces you to learn what they’re teaching you.</p>
<p>Anyways didn’t mean to ramble but hopefully this answers some of your questions!</p>