Despite all those businesses, I only had one “job” while I was in college. During the summers of my junior and senior years, I was a traveling salesman for Helene Curtis, and I sold to drugstores and supermarkets. I didn’t know anything about cosmetics when I started out, but I knew something about selling and I was a fast learner. Because I was a summer employee, I got all of the worst assignments. If you’ve never sold anything through cold calls or without appointments, it may be hard to imagine, but I can promise you that it’s humbling. Most responses are no. Some emphatic, some really
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