Average Sale Price: Less than 50 (United States)

If you are thinking about or are in this career, it can be very rewarding and you could live the good life. You are truley the master of your universe. I get so much satisfaction when someone tells me they love their hair! Sometime this is enough to love this career. But we can't pay bills with compliments. On the other hand if you keep at it and don't change salons, in a few years you will be making good money and in 7 to 10 years you will be making great money. Don't change salons; pick the right one from the start. It will be your home for a long time. If you don't make at least 250 a week full time in a year and a half, leave. If you do and like the people you work with. Then you hit a home run. As long as there is incentive to earn more money. And you can hone your skill.

I've asked for raises and I am sure a lot of others have as well BUT they do not give raises UNLESS you move up as a lead, manager etc. My manager, store and district manager just laughed and say "Sell more and you're make more" but I did that and it doesn't work because they cut our commission rates to peanuts. The only advice I can honestly give is to find a better sales job. Look for one that deals with technology/services. They will pay you higher hourly rate, commission and more benefits.

Get it in writing and keep a paper trail and a log of anything that you may need to back you up.

Attitude is the key to success as a sales agent. You have to have a professional, attitude daily. What is a professional attitude? It is one that makes the client center of attention and have the client's best interest in focus. If you go to the field with that attitude you will succeed.. Remember to dress for success but comfortable and wear a smile. With that in mind, remember happy clients, will give you names of others that might need your services.

I've been working for WF as a personal banker for almost a year, and for the most part it has been a good experience. There are a few things that have bothered me about upper management's lack of tack when it comes to driving sales and motivating employees.

Let me start by saying that it seems that the store manager position seems like a highly overrated position and that the title would be more accurate if it were to be called a "slave driver". It seems to me that the most important job of the store manager is

to look at the ACR1 screen(sales output screen) constantly through out the day and complain of how we need to get it to an astronomical number by the end of the day. This pressure is magnified 10x every Wednesday, with the entire district held at

different goal attainment levels by a certain time of the day. If

the sales goals are not met (my branch seemed to always be on

this list) you are punished by staying an extra hour after closing time(mybranch closed at 7pm) and make phone calls to bank customers, peddling things such as check card rewards($12/year fee),credit cards, loans & insurance products.

Wells Fargo has a motto of "relationship banking", but all of that is thrown aside the minute you walk in the door and view the

daily sales goal and hear your manager complain about how the

ACR1 screen doesn't move by itself.

Getting ahead is not easy. Fight your doubt & fear. Do what you know is best & right to push forward. Do this for God, those who need you, & yourself. Use what is around you, use what is inside you, bring out the abilities in other people. You are able when you are committed. Fear will run from you. You will be headstong. Your employers want loyalty, & reliability. Once they see your goodness, & the moneytrain parks. Give it everything & live to please.

I was told that after 4 1/2 years of devoted and faithfull service to my company that I was unable to have a raise and was told that because I receive child support that should make up for the money I would be getting in a raise. I am sorry but me receving child support should have absoultly no merit on me getting a raise. Still after 4 1/2 years I have yet to see a raise.

Once you get through training yourself really, and are patient enough that you never believed you could manage a bunch of kids, you will have a few more wrinkles but the ability to turn your cellphone off on your days off and sleep in until 10 because they aren't calling you about work stuff!