Independent Contractor Review

The job was really hard, but it was the best thing I have ever done. A good quote to represent this programme would be: Life starts outside your comfort zone. At time it was hard, but the skills I learnt at this job made me a much better person, and I am coming back next year to repeat this programme

This is one of the best things, the connection I had with colleagues at my own level, and higher on the hierarchy is incredible. I felt like a close friend to the president of our company by the end of the summer.

The first week is spent in Nasvhille, Tennessee, where we spent the whole week in sales school trained to be ready for a succesfull summer. Through the summer, every sunday I had meetings where managers gave me more support and training.

The hours are long. However this programme is exactly for those who are willing to commit to something tough and challenging for the whole summer.

I ran my own business during this programme, so I managed EVERYTHING: the hours I did, the customers I had, the accounting and stats, the deliveries of the products, Everything

This is what this programme is about, I learnt invaluable skills at this programme, things like being able to WORK REALLY HARD in the first place, accounting, schedule, time management, making a sale, persuasion. All these skills will help me tons at Uni and beyond

We lived with host families, and our host headquarter was the funnest place ever! At first we were 3 guys, by the end of the summer there was 5 of us. We were a funny bunch, and had tons of fun after every working day.

It was definately super organized, in the sense that pretty much there is a schedule for every second of the day! there is time allocated for work, and time for fun, time for shopping for groceries, and time for sleep. So everything is super organized and there is not much flexibility. I think this is great because it taught me the effectiveness of schedule

As I mentioned previously, we spent a whole week in training school, and all through the summer we had meetings with more training

If you complete the summer, you are pretty much guaranteed a place as a manager next year if you want it. This means you can come back with a team of as many people as you can find, and earn profit on their profit!

We stayed with host families, so every day I saw my friends, we had dinner together, did grocerie shopping togethere. On sunday we gathered with our whole team from different areas and did fun stuff like gocarting, went to amusement parks, baseball games, etc...

I payed $30 (about 17pounds) a week for rent, and all the events were really cheap as well.

We did not go out at nights, simply because this isn't compatible with the job's schedule. However the 4 days of Gatlinberg at the end of the summer are pretty incredible.

Every sunday we decided on an activity to do! we did a lot of stuff like going to baseball games, climbing mountains, having barbecues, going go carting, going to an amusement park, etc..