Let me add a few things -
It's not TERRIBLE, but it's not GREAT either. At my store we rarely did full consultations, so I rarely got to do makeup. I was also a manager, so I had to deal with bitchy customers and crap from the cast as well. I also had to do the non fun stuff, such as paperwork, visits from brands, hiring, interviews, stock, back office visits, and stuff like that. I maybe was on the selling floor helping clients about 3 hours a day. The gratis is GREAT (1000 $ or more a month since I was a manager) and from all different brands, plus if you make friends with an account exec. and sell thier stuff, they'll bring you goodies too ( and it helps to have names for down the road, that's how I get Ole He nriksen and Dior stuff now for free... friends in high places) and the trainings are great, and I got to go to Fragrance Encore and got my Certified Fragrance Sales Specialist (which is a national thing, I can take it anywhere). It's just retail, with slightly better perks, but managers deal with too much shit (being that they are still a new company in the US and thier internal trainings are shit). HTH better than my last rant, lol!