Reduced wages and wildly different work responsibilities during off-season: during winter when turf is dormant Weed Man offered technicians $15/hour to knock doors gathering sales leads. It's a very different experience to the technical and very physical work of turf care. In the season you are doing the important work of turf maintenance and addressing customer concerns with experiential knowledge. In the off-season you are repeatedly approaching strangers at their door asking them for their phone number so a salesperson can explain our program. Pros: it's a straightforward pitch; it's not especially physically demanding; it doesn't require a lot of technological knowledge. Cons: Very cold, inclement weather conditions; it's mind-numbing when you get very few contacts for long periods with no one to talk to and nothing to distract you; it's stressful as people are often rude to you. Since it's not challenging or rewarding you may come to dread the work day, as you look forward to the stress of being very cold while strangers are rude- sometimes even belligerent- and when you're not talking to strangers you're mostly alone with nothing to engage your mind except walking and moving to the next door. Thankfully this is only a few months each year- and if these conditions/interactions don't bother you, you'd be happy to do the work, if only it payed a living wage.
