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The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman
He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker.
The bodybuilder had just returned from a trip to Florida where he’d joined a “blitz”—solar-industry slang for a sales event in which packs of young men in crisp polos and khaki shorts descend on a city, crash in a cheap hotel or Airbnb, and spend weeks knocking on as many doors as possible. Though his college semester had just begun, Colvin told Will he was thinking of dropping out: As someone who’d been shaped by hardship—he and his mother once lived above a Niagara Falls pharmacy that was regularly burglarized by drug addicts—he was having a tough time relating to his classmates, most of whom hailed from cushier backgrounds than his own. The achievement would soon earn him a special shout-out on the Freedom Pros Instagram account; the post’s cover image would bear the title “The Rise of Doug Hotz.” He also acknowledged that the work has taxed his emotional endurance at times.
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