What are the pros and cons of working for a debt purchase company?

Question

What are the pros and cons of working for a debt purchase company?

Answer 1

Pros: You get a steady paycheck, pay tends to be performance-based, so you get paid more depending on how good you are at getting people to pay, pretty decent schedule (M-F, no extremely late nights)

Cons: You have to deal with asking people to pay bills all day, people yell at you, people tell you they're dying of cancer, people tell you the person you're looking for has already died, you're fairly replaceable, not a lot of job security

Answer 2

Cons: you spend your working life piling additional misery onto those you know full-well are in extreme financial difficulty. Their unaffordable debt steadily mounts with your horrifying interest rate, rendering them effectively homeless, or indebted forever.

Pros: your mother may still love you (no-one else will)