Kamran

Mortgage Broker

100% commission to base+commission ?

As the title suggests how did y'all handle the transition from 100% commission to base + commission?

As I feel when you have to rely 100% on your efforts to make 100% of your income it's a lot easier to stay motivated/discipled to hit your goals.

I've recently done a salary position and I felt unmotivated and bored af thank God it was a short contract but damn...how did y'all adjust?

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WR Officer

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Never been there myself, but here's my perspective on salary:

My salary isn't high. It's enough to pay the bills and have a lil money leftover. Commission is where the fun and investment money comes from. If I was to coast on salary, I'd be living a very average life and would need to sacrifice many things I enjoy having. Why would I want to do that? I'm in sales because the earning potential is super high. If I didn't care about commission, I'd go earn a higher salary being an Account Manager or Marketing drone.

I don't feel disincentivized by having a salary at all. I'm happy that if I have a bad month, I can still pay rent and my bills and not starve without having to draw from my savings. That's all salary means to me.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Exactly this. All my fun comes from the commission, without the stress of having to manage a missed month.

And I like to have fun, so I'm incentivized.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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I’ve never been 100% commission, but I’d imagine the security of a regular paycheck is going to be wonderful.

Jewcan_Sam81

Politicker

Account Executive

Never 100% commission, if I wanted that I'd go sell cars. Need to eat while i'm making stuff happen

JDialz

Politicker

Chief Operating Officer

Just sell a shit load of cars and don't blow all your money, yeah?

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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I would never want to be 100% commission man. Wow.

JDialz

Politicker

Chief Operating Officer

Never say never, Foxy.

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

I agree with you, more likely I would be unmotivated too, you had -just like you did- to push yourself till getting back to the full 100% commission scheme once the contract was over and that's most probably what I would have done if I were you and had no other choice but to wait.

peachykeen

Politicker

sae e-commerce

I couldn’t imagine being 100% commish. Gotta have that salary safety net IMO.

JDialz

Politicker

Chief Operating Officer

It's not so bad. I prefer it, honestly. But it does suck in the first few years.

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

My salary basically only pays my bills. If I want to eat, go on vacations, buy my girl a valentines gift, whatever random bs that isn’t just surviving, gotta get that comish

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