A spectacular piece by Brendan Koerner in Wired about the lives of young men doing door-to-door solar sales
one just came by my house the other day! (I already have panels, so there was no sale to make)
Every new industry produces some sort of Glengarry-Glen-Ross boiler-room culture
this is solar's, apparently
https://www.wired.com/story/spectacular-burnout-solar-panel-salesman/