Pros
1)They really try to teach new people how to be successful. The people that trained me seemed like they really wanted me to succeed. 2) They once got food for the employees before we went out for the day
Cons
Monday-Saturday typically 12pm-7pm. You use your car everyday, and WILL need to travel. You DON'T get reimbursed for gas. You WONT get reimbursed for mileage. Its completely commissions based. The money they say that you will make is a pipe-shot. In my interview they said on average Solar Consultants make $1500-2500 but "usually more". Complete lies. On paper my boss made 250K, the dude wore the same 3-4 suits in rotation and drove a Hyundai or something so you decide how accurate that number is. If you make sales, you make money...if you don't then you literally make nothing. Nothing. You could go weeks without a sale, keep in mind again you pay for your own gas. So actually when you dont make money, you loose money. AGAIN.. Its possible to make money, but few and far between. This also, is a completely Cold-Lead/Door to Door business. You will walk a-lot. People will slam the door in your face and it will be very difficult to remain positive. You pitch them at the door about buying or renting solar panels, so 99 percent of the time you will get rejected. There are other, bigger, and more flexible companies on the same streets as you. Doing the same thing as you, just a different solar company. By flexible, I mean they usually will have the ability to undercut our prices. One company offered a potential client a full system that was 7K cheaper. This over-saturation of solar consultants makes people resent you even more. Hate you even more. Maybe its a good thing because once they hear the word "solar" slip out of your mouth the conversation is over. If you have a car, can speak english and can read and write....they will hire you. They're not paying you so whats it matter to them. You only make money when they make money, your an asset to the company both physically and financially. One final con, which to this day is still unknown to me. CON is that this is in New Jersey. It gets cold and dark in the winter. Who in their right mind would buy solar in Dec, Jan, Feb. Imagine being bundled up on a cold January night, snow and ice coating the ground, and you ringing someones doorbell in an attempt to get them to spend 25K on solar panels. Solar in January. It was the polar vortex this week when I wrote this review so I can only imagine how fun it must've been for all the Solar Consultants. Good luck.
