From Minimum Wage Caregiver to Eight-Year Sales Professional and Business Leader

Speaker 0: Hi. My name is Daniel Viemizar. I live here in Clovis, California. My major was business administration, and it's helped me out a lot because it actually gave me real world applicable experience that was so much better than anything I could get in a textbook, and it gave me real actual insight as to what it would be like on a day to day basis operating an actual business. Before starting with Vector, I was working as an IHSS care provider, which just meant I got paid minimum wage to watch my grandma and watch telenovelas with her. So it really wasn't much of a job. But at the same time, I was a pretty broke part time college student, and I was looking for another opportunity. And that's when Vector came along through a simple text message recommending me to the job. Yeah. I got recommended by a guy named Armand Guru, who I never really talked to. He was one of those guys in high school that you only got his phone number because he had a group project at one time, and then afterwards, he just never talked. And so I was in college. It was my first winter break. Super excited for the holidays, and I got a random text message from a girl named Rachel saying, hey, we would love to go ahead and give you this opportunity. If you're not looking for work, no worries. But if you want more info, just click down below and check it out. And from there, I was absolutely hooked. And I went in for an in person interview back in the day. Thought it was a little bit different because I'd never gone to a professional interview. It was my first time. And when they cut a penny, I got to meet the manager, I was sold. A 100%. I went ahead and I remember telling my mom and dad I was gonna sell knives, they said, what? On a street corner? What's going on? And what's even funnier is I went into my training in person and every night I came from training, my mom was so convinced that it was not the job for me that when I went to sleep, super tired, mind you from our our two day training, I had a stack of paper about this thick that she printed, and it was just whatever she googled top places to work at to go ahead and, for college students. And that was on my pillowcase every single night when I hit the bed. Every single night, I would go ahead. I'd have training. I'd go ready to sleep, and I would just hit that piece of paper. And that's what really determined, my fate. I said no way am I gonna let my mom be right on this. I have to go ahead and make sure to prove her wrong I can do this. And yeah, now she's my biggest cheerleader. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. What made me give it a try? That's the prompt. Specifically, what made you give it a try? Okay, gotcha. What made me say, Okay, let's give this a shot was I saw the quality of the product. And when that penny cut in the interview, I thought to myself, okay, I love Fortune and Fire. At the time that was just kicking off and I thought, I like knives, they're cool and I think I could actually go ahead and do this. And when I saw the base pay and how I was getting paid regardless of whether I sold or I didn't sell, I thought, okay, this is worth the effort. If I'm going to get paid regardless, let's go ahead and see what I could really do if I went and put in the effort. And from there, I really got surprised because I didn't think I was gonna do much. I thought I was just gonna get the base pay, and then afterwards just say, cool. It was a fun two weeks. And that kinda snowballed into eight years later. So here I am. Could it be a nickname like grandma Gammie? What was what they called her? Okay. Perf alright. Cool. And is there a prompt before it? Okay. My most memorable favorite customer was the one who made me, like, truly believe in Kako. I met someone who had Kako from 1949, But this lady was really, really young looking. So I walk in the door, she wanted me to actually take a look at her products. And right before the presentation, I'm like, these aren't cucco. And she's like, oh, they're cucco. A 100%. Look. And I see the old original blade, but they didn't even have the special handle that fit in your hand. It was completely flat. Didn't look like anything we have today. And I said, these are yours? You look if these are as old as you say they are, no way do you have them. And she said, they're not mine. They're hers. And on cue, right from the corner was grandma Gammie. She was 90 years old. She had a respirator tank and she was from Oklahoma and she talked like an auctioneer person. So when I asked her like, wait, these are your knives? She went ahead and took a quick drag of oxygen to breathe and then she said, well, those knives I have since 1949. I had them the best years of my life. I was very young when they first recruited me to go ahead and see about these knives. They knocked on the door. I went ahead and let them in. I bought them. I loved them. I missed that trimmer. I lost it at the lake one time. Went back two hours to try again. Couldn't find it, but I love those knives. And yeah, they're still to this day my favorite customers ever. They moved back to Oklahoma and they still have their knives, they've passed it down already to their great grandkids. It's different. It's Cool. What's the problem? Yeah. What took me by surprise first jumping in to vector marketing was how supportive people were. Because you have to remember, I had my mom who went and printed out an inch thick sack of papers of other jobs and threw them on my pillowcase. So every time I came back from my first weekend of training, I had so much negative feedback from what I thought were my inner circle. And then all of a sudden, I would have while they're saying you can't do this, my manager was like, a 100% you can. You just gotta go ahead and give it your best shot, but you have all the potential. Now it's just about you proving it to yourself that you could go ahead and do it. And so I gave myself the opportunity, and then afterwards, I was able to crush it. And then going back to my manager, he was so supportive. He was like, see, it's nothing I did. It's all that you did. So you just have to continue proving to yourself time and time again that you are a 100% capable of whatever you want to with this company. And I'm here in your corner, and I'm gonna help you out. We're gonna make this happen. And I thought that was the most mind blowing thing because I've been used to managers who were just like actual managers. Do this. Cool. Make sure you don't mess it up. Instead of someone who was actually there coaching me and helping me out and being super in my corner, I felt like if I were in boxing, that was the guy who would go out and never throw the towel on me because he would never give up. Cool. Sounds good. Gotcha. What's different about this company than anything else I've experienced is the fact that you actually go ahead and get paid for what you do. So if you go ahead and want to be 100% all in, you'll see that reflected in your paycheck. And if you want to just take it easy, you'll also see that reflected in your paycheck too. But I would remember working at places like Chipotle. If I spent five or six hours trying to master the art of burrito folding, I was not getting a raise. I might get a high five, you know. If I was the best person on the team, I still got paid the same amount as the person who wasn't pulling their weight and was half the time on their phone during their breaks and not on their breaks. So for me, it was really cool seeing how I was able to actually work hard and I would get an extra reward for that. That was awesome. Never saw anything like that before. And then next question would be flexibility. What I loved as a college student was that I didn't have to get set into a specific schedule. If I wanted to go ahead and be flexible, I could be flexible and change it week to week. If I wanted to have a regimen around my my built in school classes, I could do that. No problem. And I didn't have to worry about stability whatsoever. I made my own, schedule and my own stability. Anything you want? Yeah. Actually, I will add this. The one thing I was taught very early on in vector, actually, when it came to schedules is you could either live a life or you could design one. And what I really appreciate about Vector is that you could go ahead and really design exactly what you wanted. Even though I was 19 or 20 years old when I first started, they gave me full control of where I wanted to take this. And I really, really appreciated that. They put so much trust into someone like me. Cool. A 100%. I always tell people, I was the kid who was not this animated. On the inside, I was. But if I were going to ask for a refill for a free drink, I would go ahead and have everyone else except me do it. I was so scared. And now I'm someone who's super outgoing, outspoken at times when I need to be. I learned how to not only just talk one on one to people who are older than me and much more my senior, but I'm able to give presentations to my entire organization, my entire sales team. I could talk to people, run interviews. I could run and operate my own business in any industry I want to whatsoever. And that all came from this little knife job, which I think is really cool. Because now I can go anywhere I want to and do really whatever I want because I have all the foundation. Well, it's just like how they say when you fall in love, it's not just like one specific thing. It came over time gradually. And when it came to this company, I fell in love with Vector because I recognized the opportunity to go ahead and impact other people and give back the same opportunity I had. Because when no one believed in me, Vector did. And I wanted to go ahead and empower other people to do the same exact thing here in my local community. And I mean, that just sounds cool. Where else can you go ahead and work, start up a business, and directly affect the economy, the community, and everything else around you in your own hometown? That's awesome. So I wanted to go ahead and do exactly that. And the fact that I was allowed to do that as early as 20 years old was just phenomenal. Oh, you can hit me with whatever you want. You're good. I would tell them just straight up, you should a 100% give this a shot because it's not giving a shot on the actual job. It's really giving an opportunity to yourself, seeing if you're capable of doing it. I've had so many friends who actually were recommended to the team that I personally said, hey, you should give this opportunity a shot. And those who went ahead and tried, they absolutely loved it, and it superseded their expectations. They never could have thought that they would go ahead and become a whole new different person in just a couple weeks of going ahead and doing knife presentations. And all of a sudden, every single time, every single year, we'll have people write back to our office and our company saying, hey. Thank you so much. That one summer meant so much to me. I mean, I've even had people go ahead and say the skills I learned here actually allowed me to go ahead and find my true career, my true calling, or gave me the courage to ask out my fiancee who's now gonna be my wife later on in the the same year. That's awesome. And I just don't think there's many jobs like that that will really show you who you truly are deep down. Yeah. Yeah. That's with, like, marketing and all that. So yeah.