Post by tiptoes on Oct 2, 2021 9:17:21 GMT
In the digital age and internet not really much call for this type of job like there was 40 or 50 years ago.
When I first started out in the workforce it was a go to job for the young, sharp suited man with a company car, usually a Marina, Ford Escort or Vauxhall Viva - later upgraded to a Cavalier. A lower middle class job for an ex sec mod educated type or less bright grammar school alumnus, often with a young wife, aspiring to get on the lowest rung of the housing ladder. Virtually all industries had their sales reps and I worked for a Builders Merchants and subsequently a Photographic company where the reps would stuff their cars with the latest company product and an abundance of catalogues. My brother was a rep for Duracell Batteries in Crawley and amazingly for someone so sartorial his Sales Manager told him he could be a bit more debonair.
This class thing was emphasised in a rugby programme when England were playing Wales and while in England "rugger" was mainly the preserve of middle classes often dominated by Oxbridge types with higher socioeconomic jobs like dentists, quantity surveyors, marketing managers etc while the jobs of the Welsh players were less professional like steel workers and sales reps.
When I first started out in the workforce it was a go to job for the young, sharp suited man with a company car, usually a Marina, Ford Escort or Vauxhall Viva - later upgraded to a Cavalier. A lower middle class job for an ex sec mod educated type or less bright grammar school alumnus, often with a young wife, aspiring to get on the lowest rung of the housing ladder. Virtually all industries had their sales reps and I worked for a Builders Merchants and subsequently a Photographic company where the reps would stuff their cars with the latest company product and an abundance of catalogues. My brother was a rep for Duracell Batteries in Crawley and amazingly for someone so sartorial his Sales Manager told him he could be a bit more debonair.
This class thing was emphasised in a rugby programme when England were playing Wales and while in England "rugger" was mainly the preserve of middle classes often dominated by Oxbridge types with higher socioeconomic jobs like dentists, quantity surveyors, marketing managers etc while the jobs of the Welsh players were less professional like steel workers and sales reps.
