I've never made it a secret that I once sold timeshares. I liked the program so much, I bought one and paid full freight for it. (Although, I got the commission, and all the rebates, and all that.)
But I paid the same amount that everyone else pays. Hyatt is an ethical company. Yes, they're still cheaper on the resale market. But buying one actually helped my sales career. "I bought such-and-such unit for such-and-such week, and here's how I used it last year." So I made everything back in increased sales.
It is, for the most part, a fun job. You get to talk to a lot of different people from a lot of different walks of life. I pitched to major league baseball players, hot rod racers, doctors, lawyers, CEOs, pilots, you name it.
And it was an EASY job. Because if you know the program backwards and forwards, roughly half the people who attend the presentation will want it, and half of those people can afford it.
The only downside was dealing with timeshare mooches (an industry term, not my term). There are some incredibly negative people out there, who are going to try to make your life as miserable as possible for the entire presentation. I don't even know why such people go to presentations. They obviously are incapable of having fun. They should stay at home. "They couldn't have fun in a cathouse with a fist full of fifty dollar bills," was a popular assessment of these people.
And frankly, you would not BELIEVE the amount of people who told me that they have cancer. Apparently, one third of all Americans are battling stage IV cancer right now. Because roughly one in three tried that excuse on me. They couldn't tell me if they had sarcoma, carcinoma, or lymphoma. They didn't know what an oncologist does for a living. But by golly they had the cancer. They had LOTS of cancer. And thanks so much but we won't be buying anything cuz we gots the cancer but good. Both of us. The kids and the cat, too. Cancer all around.
It was an unusual day if one of my tours didn't play the cancer card. Some days EVERY tour played the cancer card.