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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
True confession time. Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was desperate for a summer job, and I answered one of those "Summer Jobs" flyers that get hung up all over college areas. The employer in question was the Public Interest Research Group, and they were launching a campaign about saving the wetlands in the Katy Prarie from the development of a Westside airport. It was an interesting coaltion. The NRA and Ducks Unlimited and the Sierra Club were all on board.

Anyhow, for one very hot, muggy summer, I went door to door at around dinner time asking people if they wanted to help save the wetlands, and while they were at it, did they want to join the Sierra Club. I had a little spiel I was supposed to give, and I was supposed to sell a certain number of memberships a day or week or something if I wanted to get paid. What I was doing was apparently constitutionally protected speech, because it was political advocacy, but I felt like a door to door salesman, and most people, especially those with the No Solicitations signs on their doors, didn't understand how I was any different than TexLex's vacuum people. I didn't make much money that summer. On the other hand, the Katy Prarie is still there and an airport isn't, so that's good.

That's the gig I had in college that I quit after a day and a half! Different good cause (it was in Rhode Island, can't remember the cause anymore). I couldn't bring myself to knock on the doors. Just lack that salesperson gene.