Southwest Mauritius travel guide

Southwestern Company recruits college students to sell educational reference books and children's books door-to-door. Students participating in the Southwestern program are independent contractors, not employees of the company, purchasing books at wholesale from the company and selling them direct to private families at retail.
Student dealers typically live with a private host family in their sales area, sharing the cost of accommodations with two or three other dealers. The "most successful" students, as defined by the company, work 72+ hours per week throughout the summer. According to the company, in 2006 the average first-time sales program participant made a gross (before expenses) profit of $7944 over a three-month summer. (...) more…