Objective The life of a door-to-door salesperson is anything but glorious. Battling rejection, long hours, the occasional threatening dog, and the possibility of making little to no money seems to be enough to discourage anyone from doing this job day in and day out. However, I have come across a group of men who find this line of work particularly worthwhile. With this study, I intend to discover the motivations behind door-to-door salesmen at a Midwestern steak-selling company. Reflexivity Statement I have a close personal relationship with one of the salesmen. Therefore, I have been familiar with the happenings of these salesmen for a period of time before the decision to conduct a study about them. This does create a bias, although I feel that I have represented the characteristics of the individuals and the job as accurately and objectively as possible. Methodology This study was done over a two-month period. I used my ties to some of the salesmen who worked at the same door-to-door sales company. My hopes were to gather other participants through the snowballing effect. I set out to gather information in a number of ways. First, I conducted four interviews with salesmen. The questions allowed for a discussion of the difficulties and stress, as well as the positive aspects of the job. These interviews ranged from about ten minutes to nearly an hour. I use the term “salesmen” for this study because only
Objective The life of a door-to-door salesperson is anything but glorious. Battling rejection, long hours, the occasional threatening dog, and the possibility of making little to no money seems to be enough to discourage anyone from doing this job day in and day out. However, I have come across a group of men who find this line of work particularly worthwhile. With this study, I intend to discover the motivations behind door-to-door salesmen at a Midwestern steak-selling company. Reflexivity Statement I have a close personal relationship with one of the salesmen. Therefore, I have been familiar with the happenings of these salesmen for a period of time before the decision to conduct a study about them. This does create a bias, although I feel that I have represented the characteristics of the individuals and the job as accurately and objectively as possible. Methodology This study was done over a two-month period. I used my ties to some of the salesmen who worked at the same door-to-door sales company. My hopes were to gather other participants through the snowballing effect. I set out to gather information in a number of ways. First, I conducted four interviews with salesmen. The questions allowed for a discussion of the difficulties and stress, as well as the positive aspects of the job. These interviews ranged from about ten minutes to nearly an hour. I use the term “salesmen” for this study because only
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