CuriousFox

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WR Officer

Celebrated Contributor

Arsonist

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Bet I could throw this football over those mountains...

I saw this on LinkedIn a few weeks ago and thought I'd bring it up here for discussion.

What’s something you wish someone had told you earlier in your career so you didn’t have to learn it the hard way?

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'll start. Your job is not your identity. That was hard to separate.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

this was super hard for me to learn.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

By the way, Uncle Rico is a legend.

NoGoodAtThis

Politicker

Sales rep

This ideal saved my sales career... was about a week away from quitting completely. Had a sales leader sit down and explain the difference of the role of sales person and the identity of the individual. Saved me from ending up in marketing

SaaSsy

Politicker

Same, good one to learn early

UserNotFound

Politicker

Account Executive

This is a CONSTANT struggle for me. I’m trying to be very deliberate about finding myself outside of my professional life and motherhood. I was asked recently what I do for fun and realized I don’t- I don’t do anything for fun. Ever. It’s work or momming 24/7. One day I’ll discover who I am… I hope. 🤞🏻

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

We all need the reminder every now and again

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

It doesn't matter if you are the "best or smartest" in the room If no one respects you. I had to learn how to humble myself. It costed me a few promotions.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

You dont have to live in CA to work in Tech Sales

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

But I live in California.

Let me flip that.

You don't have to work in tech sales if you live in California.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

There's that too!

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Ooh this one is good.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Did not even think about it, until I met someone working at a big tech company

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

really until COVID this wasnt that that far off from the truth.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

COVID changed so much for sales

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

idk about that. everyone I knew in tech pre-covid wasn't in cali and never had been. I think there was just such a large concentration there it gave a misconception that you had to be.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

could totally be true. im in the midwest and i had SUCH a small amount of companies I could work for pre covid if I wanted to be in Saas since I had to be in office.

then post covid everything changed.

id love to see if someone has collected real numbers. the amount of ppl that can now work in Saas and live in random areas like has to have increased a ton.

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

I live on the east coast, pre covid just outside of DC and now in Raleigh,NC. I feel like pre-covid it was a coastal thing in general. A lot of companies on either coast. and a lot of Cali tech companies typically have an east coast office as well unless they're super small.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

for sure. i actually moved to Wake Forest NC for a year because the company i had just started working for had an office in Raleigh. Then they decided to go full remote for ever.....so we moved back to the mid west haha

1nbatopshotfan

Politicker

Sales

You don’t owe the company anything.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

NOT 👏 A 👏 DAMN 👏 THING 👏

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Yes, you don't owe them your loyalty. They won't show you any - it's a business, after all.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

If you don't get what you want, ask. People don't know what you want until you tell them, and you have little to lose if you ask politely. After all, as of right now, the answer is already "no", so you might as well ask!

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Control the things that you can control and don't sweat the small stuff.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

You don't actually need to be as technical as you think you do.

As in, don't be afraid to go after more complex/consultative sales jobs without domain expertise - that can be taught.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

The industry can ALWAYS be taught. 👏

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

setting goals to help you succeed should not be career goals.

yes, have career goals too. but those ultimately aren't what's going to make you succeed. The personal life goals are whats going to motivate you to kill it at work too.

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

commenting again to add... make your intentions known and speak them into existence.

If you're an SDR and want to be an AE, make sure every single person who would be involved in the process of making that happen knows it and hears it from you often.

If you're in SMB sales and want to make it to enterprise, see above.

Don't leave anything up to chance, guessing, or mystery. Say what you want and say it often to anyone who can have a positive impact on making it happen.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

That is how you make dreams reality. Giving voice to them, and working toward them, rather than hoping for magic to get you there.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Absolutely. Work your way to what you want. Great one.

nomdeguerre

Executive

Account executive

Learn to roll with the punches.

Smile, say yes. Then go do what the fuck you were going to do any way.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I love this one.

nomdeguerre

Executive

Account executive

For the longest time I tried to explain why what they wanted me to do was not the best thing to do. Then I spent a ton of energy on trying to logically explain why I wanted to do was better.

Until, I discovered that nobody wanted the debate. They just wanted to be right and rarely followed up on their request and would typically forget all about it.

So, there is no downside to smile and agree and then ignore whatever it was and just do what I wanted to do anyway.

SaaSsy

Politicker

Stop trying to teach moronic managers lessons. Result always = me pissed and them = still assholes.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Not worth your mental health.

UrAssIsSaaS

Arsonist

SaaS Eater

You cant close without sound discovery. Seems simple but I wasted so many pitches early in my career with nonexistent or poor discovery.

MeowMeow

Politicker

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

You are replaceable. If your hard work is not being justly rewarded, find somewhere that will appreciate you and pay you what you are worth.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Loyalty means nothing.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

I wish someone would have grabbed me by the shoulders, given me a good shake and told me "you will make more money if you leave financial services NOW!"

i drank the cool aid SO HARD in that first career and it ended up setting my family back financially pretty bad.

thankfully i was able to turn it around but WOW.

Tres

Politicker

Account Executive

Care less about work, it'll be better for your health

Hitthabricks

Executive

-1

Enterprise Account Executive

Think of good questions before I post them.

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Bet I could throw this football over those mountains...

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