ZVRK

Enterprise Account Executive

Are a husband and wife in sales, a match made in commission heaven, or a no-no?

Long story short - I`ve been encouraging my wife for a long time now to make a career shift, and take on sales - she finally found a great opportunity for an entry-level full-cycle sales rep and took it!

My question: do you see this as a good move for a married couple, or not? - Only the wrong answers please 😅

Would love to see how many of you savages share the S.A.D.N.E.S.S. with your spouse 😁

Are a husband and wife in sales, a match made in commission heaven, or a no-no?

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Yes, commission heaven! No, just double the cold calls :)

*Voting in this poll no longer yields commission.

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

My wife makes more money than me, and it doesn’t bother me for a second. She owns a services based business with a small team. If we were both software people I don’t think we would be so nice to each other 3-4 times a year for about a week.

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Wouldn`t know for software developers, but she`s in sales for a month now - so far so good :D

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

Thankful my wife isn't in sales. High school teacher. Hopefully retired soon ;)

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

That`s so nice :) hope you two enjoy some more free time soon!

punishedlad

Tycoon

Regional Partnership Manager

Same. My wife will probably rejoin the workforce once our kids are all in school (probably like 8-10 years out lol) but is stay-at-home momming for now.

Keeps the pressure on me, but I'd much rather have her at home during our children's formative years.

I don't think she'd go back to teaching though, probably an admin role within education.

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

I know couples who are both in sales, but they never worked together.

That is a horse of a different color my friend.

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Noo, we`re not in the same company. I see how I might not have been clear with the post. She`s working for a different company, with a different type of products and markets :) I would never want us to work for the same company, that`s way too much risk (of all kinds)

ExtremeVibeChecker44

Arsonist

Inside Sales

I feel like when dating people in the same industry, you just wind up bitching to each other a lot and work really carries over to home.

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

I have friends that met in school, got married, and are both in sales. They complained when it was hard to buy a house 6 or 7 years ago because of the way commission is treated by banks for mortgages. But they are living the life now.

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

I had that exact same problem 8 years ago, luckily enough, my bank took into account the commission as well (with a certain discount, I forgot the exact %).

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

It’s good that my partner is not in sales or else we have to sip share the same level of stress every Q end

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Appreciate the de-motivation here lol

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Demotivating fact lol

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

I'm venting out my sales pressure to my wife, so how she could vent out hers to me, if we're both at the same ... 😅

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Ok, now it looks like i haven`t thought this through enough :D you got a point there! Maybe I`m a bit lucky, my wife is super chill, and she`s handling cold calling for this first month like a champ, so maybe I still get to vent as usual too😅

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

Much of luck 2 both of U👍

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'm a fan of space.

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

My partner is a brand manager, so technically does lots of sales, just not pure cold calling.

She's killing it, has a great team and gets to travel a bunch.

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

That`s a good match too, sales & brand management. Have they helped you with your personal brand somehow maybe?

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

Undoubtedly so...she has extremely sharp analytical skills, just freezes up at the idea of a cold call.

Funny because that is something to me that feels entirely natural.

Different skills. No reason I should be paid nearly as close to what she's getting lol, but that's the world we live in.

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Sounds like you're at different companies, and so if she has the aptitude for it and it works out, good for you.

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Yes, different companies, both with remote first work which comes as a blessing with toddler twins getting sick monthly:) so far so good!

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

My wife did Cutco before we got married and early in our marriage. She rocked it, but hated it. She's one of those people you just naturally trust, which is probably why she stayed long enough to get a ton of free knifes and then quit.
She *could* rock a sales job, but doesn't.

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

I think it depends really. As sales people, our pay tends to be pretty volatile with crazy months and dry spells. My fiancé has a salary job with consistent paychecks. Having that consistency, even though it’s less money than I make, is definitely nice to help keep things “normalized” as far as expenses go without having to dip too heavily into savings or at all if I have a slow month/quarter.

She also would be horrible at sales though so it’s not even really an option to consider for us 😂

ZVRK

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Agree, and I’m lucky enough to have a higher base, if it wasn’t for that I’d never recommend her getting i sales :)

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

ERP Sales

Can help each other be more empathetic, but can cause more stress for sure

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

Imagine just mirroring each other at bed

mpo

Good Citizen

Sales Director

My wife and I are both in sales at the same company. For awhile she was my SDR and it was amazing! Cannot tell you the buy in you get to run late meetings or travel or do uncomfortable things for deals when it’s their deal too. She now runs our sales enablement for the whole team and it’s even better.

playerone

Politicker

Regional Account Executive

I convinced mine to go to marketing lol sales just wasn’t for her. A lot of crying. She’s done really well tho since making the change tho!

saygrace

Valued Contributor

Sales Executive

My ex wife and I are both in sales lol