Holy crap...

I'm sitting in the tearoom at work, having just spent the last hour sitting with a collector working some student loan accounts. Karen's really nice, and its seems that although the company told me a lot before I started, they didn't tell me quite everything. Turns out that a lot of regular collections people here are on lower base salaries, but are actually making COMMISSION on what they bring in. For instance, on the files Karen works on, she brings home 16.4% on EVERYTHING. Holy crap. Imagine you bring in $10,000 - that's another $1,640 in your pocket. Double it (most quotas here are around the $20,000 mark anyway) and you're looking at $3,280 AFTER you get your regular pay. Perhaps this won't be so bad after all - if I can get the licence to do this anyway. I'm going to be told this arvo what I'll actually be doing, hopefully I'm on a similar structure, but we'll see. If not, I'll just take my licence and go play with Dun & Bradstreet again. In other news, I'm feeling somewhat better today after hearing back from some of my awesome friends. Their kind words of support has certainly hit home - in particular one email from my friend Jen brought a few stings of tears to my eyes first thing this morning. Gotta run - time to smoke.