Did anyone else get into sales because you grew up poor and had such a refusal to live that life that you put it all out on the call floor?

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I was in a dark place when I hit sales. To the point where I was some 19 year old punk living out of my car, broke as fuck, and took the first job that came to me.

Humble beginnings at a call center where it was pretty easy to climb the ranks if you even slightly gave a shit.

I remember my first paycheck going right down my throat drinking it away getting piss drunk. Each week I showed up to that shit show propping myself on rage, and a steady diet of cigarettes/coffee/adderall when I could get it.

4 or 5 jobs later I was making much better money and in a better place but I thank sales for being the energy sink it was until I could mellow out on my own. I think if I hadn't gotten into sales I'd be in jail by now.

Accepted Answer

i cant say I grew up dirt poor but for sure lower mid class. i got into sales because i had no technical skills, not smart enough to be anything that required more schooling, but i refused to be middle class, and did not want to be like my parents or the people I grew up with.

the drive to continue to earn more every year was an absolute driver to be in sales.

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I did not, but that's a helluva motivator

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Grew up middle class, maybe slightly lower middle class. My dad ran a one-man autobody shop. As a teenager, I would work there during the summer to make some extra cash and did it full time for a bit after college.

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Got into Sales because I liked it but definitely when you see that you're able to provide(to your family and self) at a scale which otherwise would've taken years definitely keeps me going.

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Grew up poor, without role models including father or father figures, and no education. The relentless drive to have a good life led me to sales, and ultimately has been my path to freedom and giving my family the life I wish I had. Sales is the savior.

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I grew up with an abusive dad who treated all the money and possessions as 'his.' That experience drove me into sales, where I could take control and ensure that no one could ever tell me how to spend my money and that I could be the giving person my farther was not
and spoil my mom.

Watching my mom be financially abused drove me into sales.

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Grew up in a section 8 neighborhood with a single mom raising us. Paying bills at 16, I had to find ways to make money no matter what. The Lord has blessed me with opportunity for my children to be much better off. Sales got me out of it all.

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I got into sales because I graduated with no hard skills because I went to school not knowing what I wanted to do and changed majors a ton. When I started having kids I realized I needed to make serious money if I wanted to give them the life I wanted to.

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Did anyone else get into sales because you grew up poor and had such a refusal to live that life that you put it all out on the call floor?

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Did anyone else get into sales because you grew up poor and had such a refusal to live that life that you put it all out on the call floor?

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