Fribbles

Sales doosh

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2 W2's - killing this shit

Sup gang,

Been a while since I've posted, 8-9 months to be exact since I went on WarRoom hiatus. Also almost 9 months since I've held down 2 full time W9s selling IT services. Shit is crazy. Turned off my LinkedIn and been making 205k combined base salary since then. My life has changed so much and I'm so glad I pulled the trigger. There's no reason you couldn't do this either. Having a couple margs right now and reflecting on the journey, figured I'd go on a tipsy WarRoom ramble. At one company I'm a enterprise SDR, the other managed services consultant. Society will tell you "Have 1 job" "Fully commit" etc etc. But honestly fuck that, work for yourself, not the employer. Just get the job done and there's no reason they should question you, and if they do, deal with it when the time comes. I'll probably never have 1 job ever again lol. That's my post, just be writing into my WarRoom journal for the fam.

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CatMom

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Account Executive

Oof 😮‍💨 I grew more grey hair just reading this. Glad it’s workin out for ya tho!

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

Ya it’s wild, I’m prob just a sociopath

braintank

Politicker

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Enterprise Account Executive

Sounds stressful but you do you...

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

It can indeed be stressful, but has taught me to compartmentalize more.

UrAssIsSaaS

Arsonist

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SaaS Eater

How long do you legitimately think you can sustain this?

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

Maybe a couple more months I’m not sure. Im trying to make it to SKO end of July. Each month I’m still doing it has surprised me. Originally I just had both cause I wanted to weigh which one to keep, but then I thought oh the two checks is nice and it kept going. I think I’ll probably drop the SDR job cause the volume is hard to keep up with the other strategic job. I think the only way to do it, IMO, is maybe one heavy volume job, could be consultative and then the other like sales ops or something low visibility. But ya it’s been 9 months, I’ll prob just ride the wave until I get canned from one of em.

UrAssIsSaaS

Arsonist

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SaaS Eater

Appreciate an honest response here because this is kinda what I figured. I dont think anyone can pull this off and stay happy for more than a year or so.

Good on you for trying. I hope your saving and living the lifestyle of just 1 job because when you do drop one of them thats a significant hit to your income.

Pachacuti

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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

If you can balance the time requirements - go for it!

Fribbles

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Sales doosh

Thanks brah!

Gasty

Notable Contributor

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War Room Community Manager

so... you have... like... 2 linkedIn profiles?

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

Zero LinkedIn profile

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

But, I do 6-7 hours for the strategic one and maybe a hour or two for the SDR role. Def neglecting the SDR role and metrics have dropped. I’m just lucky to have made it this far probably.

braintank

Politicker

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Enterprise Account Executive

Devil's advocate: if you went all in on one could you earn the same or more? Wondering if splitting time and attention means you're not maximizing comp plan at either.

jefe

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This

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

If the comp plans actually paid out then yes. But Sdr OTE is about 125 ish, MS specialist was 500 OTE but then private equity bought company fucked things up and I haven’t made any commission despite closing 1.5 million. I guess just been getting burned by shitty companies that don’t honor comp plans. Prob cause I’m not typical SaaS. We see what happens.

Fribbles

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Sales doosh

& yes, I have two laptops, conflicting schedules, one company has a office where i go in at free will, and the other has no office. Prob 10 meetings every day minimum.

fidelcashflow

Catalyst

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Account Executive

That is cool and all but you are literally working two jobs. You aren't exactly coming up. 10 meetings every day minimum?! Are you working 40 hours a week or more?

Fribbles

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Sales doosh

45-50 hours. Idk about you but going doubling my income is a come up for me. Most meetings are touch points, project/SOW reviews. The point is - if you can have another income and get away with it then why not. I have a buddy who is a SA at two companies doing 500k. I’m not in SaaS sales either, I think most people here are. I’m in managed services - different beast.

Fribbles

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Sales doosh

Lots of adderal

Gasty

Notable Contributor

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War Room Community Manager

How much? (genuine question)

Fribbles

Notable Contributor

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Sales doosh

I try to keep doses low since obviously I don’t wanna be too much of a crack head. 10 mg instant release 2-3 times a day depending on work load.

FormerStartupJobHopper

Tycoon

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AE

Good for you bro. My two cents though: there are a lot of people talking about this kinda thing. Working 2 jobs and/or on the flip side, 4 day work weeks. These will never work for typical SaaS account executives. Almost anybody would underperform their quota and get fired, IMO

nemix

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SDR

Much rather get a W2 and a 1099 job/business where I can do what I want when I want.

sora

Opinionated

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RevOps Automation Consultant

I actually just started the same as you

Ent SDR at a big saas company and mid market AE at a start up

What challenges have you faced so far and any tips and tricks for doing this long term?

jefe

Arsonist

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🍁

Just make sure it doesn't kill you while you're at it

SADNESSLieutenant

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FUCK YEAH BRO

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