For those of you who failed their first sales job and then recovered and now are doing well... what’s your story?

Am curious to see how you guys pushed through, still did sales and now are crushing it. Currently a brand new SDR and just thankful I got employed.

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hh456

Celebrated Contributor

sales

I hated sales. I didn't realize the opportunity I had in front of me to make money and load up my paycheck. After I figured it out I poured myself into it.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I actually got a lucky start, but am curious to hear from the rest!

buckets1

Politicker

Shit the bed my first fully ramped quarter as an AE. Literally 33% to quota during a year where finance (accidentally) blessed us with great comp plans and everyone else was crushing it. The AE I supported as an SDR encouraged me to put together a plan with actionable steps including a ton of self-sourced prospecting to get myself back on track. Then proactively schedule a meeting with my manager to walk her through the plan prior to team QBRs. Got promoted less than a year later with support from said manager -- but damn swallowing my pride and putting the whole miss to quota on myself and not attributing any of it to a shit territory was tough.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

hey congrats man! I am still learning to be better, sometimes I over-crush and many times I don't but I love sales.

SaaSecurity

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

A small local SaaS company was the only company to give me multiple interviews. I had told myself I didn’t want to work in sales at all before this. I started and only lasted about half a year making 100-150 cold calls a day trying to one call close prospects. I thought this was all sales was and I burned out quick. I was one of the last people in my hiring class of 20 still there. There was an internal conflict at one point and I ended up leaving. A friend of mine just started as an SDR at a more reputable company and told me about that role and referred me. Been working in sales since then.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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This hasn't happened yet. Not saying it won't though.