I did door to door sales for a while and let me tell you there's nothing more degrading than getting the door slammed in your face at best and being chased off by dogs at worst.

Would have taken grunt labour any day over the latter.

But it gave me a thick skin in the long run and made me a much better (nastier?) negotiator when I had to run business groups.

Happy to be out of it now. Kind of rose at the right time and left before LLMs showed up.