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Did you choose Sales or it chose you?

I see amazing people frustrated and agitated arround me (in sales) their personal life is miserable  and runs around the seasonality of the sales cycle. I have had my own ups and downs but still like where I am going with all these. just wondering, is there a time you start to hate being in sales ? 

Did you choose it or it chose you?

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Gasty
Notable Contributor
5
War Room Community Manager
the wand chose the wizard
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
1
Strategic Sales
Awesome
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Account Executive
Agreed that we are chosen. I like being a 2nd Gen salesperson.
oldcloser
Arsonist
4
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I love our craft. I’m a student and a teacher thereof. I only feel like my chosen profession has been demeaned when I see someone just batter the fuck out of the English language.
sketchysales
Politicker
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Sales Manager
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Account Executive
I agree with a love for the craft. My pet peeve is when people call it biz dev or the like. We are salespeople. I enjoy being a 2nd Gen salesperson with 35+ years of experience.
oldcloser
Arsonist
0
💀
Same boat, homie. #MeToo
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Account Executive
With an understanding of the sales game, we become efficient & effective. More importantly, we strive every day to get better at the craft. One of the best parts of all our experience, still out there pitching and showing the youngsters that we don't need to hang up our cleats.
oldcloser
Arsonist
0
💀
You've got this wired. Now, if you could just upvote your replies, we'll all get more toys :)
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Account Executive
I am not familiar with upvote and how it works
oldcloser
Arsonist
0
💀
Oh- just click the thumbs up below the reply. That’s how we earn commission around here. You can spend it in the commission store. Which was just upgraded. …keeps it sticky
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
-1
Strategic Sales
To sell is human and perfection in english grammar is now for language models 😅
sketchysales
Politicker
1
Sales Manager
This all feels very bottish
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
Bottish, yes that’s the word!
oldcloser
Arsonist
0
💀
*Sell out
*English
*human. And
Edit: Grammar
CPTAmerica
Opinionated
3
President/CRO
It chose me at the age of 17, been livin the dream ever since!
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
At 17, whoa , where did you start , lemonade? Or the 🌿 herbs ?

Or tell me you sold SaaS then 😅
CPTAmerica
Opinionated
0
President/CRO
Haha, needed money for gas. A store at the mall was hiring commission sales reps to sell big screen TV's. It worked out.
CadenceCombat
Tycoon
3
Account Executive
A little bit of both. At first, it kind of chose me but I didn’t see it as a career and I tried something else related to my educational background but it wasn’t for me and then i felt like i chose to come back to sales as a career.
jefe
Arsonist
3
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Been in sales since I started knocking on doors to shovel snow at age 8.
No choice but to love it.
#canada
CuriousFox
WR Officer
3
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https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/why-did-you-go-to-sales
Justatitle
Big Shot
1
Account Executive
It chose me, family friend got me into biz dev for a company. From there it was all downhill.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
1
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Definitely chose me, but I am so glad it did!
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
As in someone picked you and said , now sales is your job ? Would love to know your story … are you generally happy? Or seasonally happy 😃
Sunbunny31
Politicker
0
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
I'm a generally optimistic person, so there's that. RE sales - I like talking to people and problem solving, so enterprise tech sales fits the bill nicely.
yes, I do get aggravated from time to time, but I know that would happen no matter where I go.
How sales found me? I joined a tech company last century, but as an office person. The CEO liked my phone voice and sent me over to be Sales Coordinator. I started dealing with the small customers the field rep didn't want to deal with, and was promoted into sales. And the rest is history. No career planning involved whatsoever.
pirate
Big Shot
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🦜☠️ Account Executive
I don't hate it too much. Because I grow a lot as a person and it helps me become better in life. So I love the hustle
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
1
Strategic Sales
Oh I love that! Sales definitely made me a better human
Maximas
Tycoon
1
Senior Sales Executive
I chose it simply cuz it's > any other job I know in terms of high payout!
SoccerandSales
Big Shot
0
Account Executive
We all WANT to claim our autonomy in choosing this career…
FinanceEngineer
Politicker
0
Sr Director, sales and partnerships
I was in a capital markets role and was moved over partnerships since the start-up needed me to do it more. From there, it was sales. Just worked out for me.
XCH
Catalyst
0
L1
I want to choose sales and i am naive enough as an introvert to believe anyone can sell
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
@xch , introverts are best sellers , we don’t come off too pushy , and thoughtfully in concise thinking
LeadMachine
Opinionated
0
Sr. BDR
I woke up one morning and realized, I need a P.O.!
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
Love it
ScorpionZD
Executive
0
Enterprise SDR
I guess we found eachother. I knew I liked the things a salesperson does, and I liked money. Then I got a job offer from my network and liked it more than any job I've ever done.
Fuck clocking in x hours, sitting in one spot the whole time, I love the flexibility and constant challenge
KB_FarmerType
Opinionated
0
Strategic Sales
Love it! What role/industry did you transition from? Are you selling in same industry where you clocked previous jobs?

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