Has massive growth ever led to mental breakdown?

I have been hustling since 17 years old chasing to strive for success doing odd jobs and unintentionally ended up with Edtech K12 Sales as my first official sales job - A toxic culture with no employee respect eventually me to switch after 18 months.

Since reps in Edtech are highly valued, had no option but to continue in Edtech sales. This time it was higher education segment, things looked good in the first few month but slowly it started adapting methodologies like the old Edtech since the management was changed.

I decided to move out and switch to B2B SaaS. After 13 months of learning & success, my aspirations weren’t matching with the growth vision shared by my manager and ended up being desperate to switch.

Got to a AM-Inside Sales role with a 50% hike. Guess what? It led to my mental break down since the culture is pathetic.

In entire journey, all challenges never affected my performance but l am losing the spark to glow and hustle eventually.

While I plan to switch, a token of guilt is still alive. The experiences have made me far better and strong as a BDR but blank about the next steps in my career.

Thanks for reading. Do share your thoughts.

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Has massive growth ever led to mental breakdown?

I have been hustling since 17 years old chasing to strive for success doing odd jobs and unintentionally ended up with Edtech K12 Sales as my first official sales job - A toxic culture with no employee respect eventually me to switch after 18 months.

Since reps in Edtech are highly valued, had no option but to continue in Edtech sales. This time it was higher education segment, things looked good in the first few month but slowly it started adapting methodologies like the old Edtech since the management was changed.

I decided to move out and switch to B2B SaaS. After 13 months of learning & success, my aspirations weren’t matching with the growth vision shared by my manager and ended up being desperate to switch.

Got to a AM-Inside Sales role with a 50% hike. Guess what? It led to my mental break down since the culture is pathetic.

In entire journey, all challenges never affected my performance but l am losing the spark to glow and hustle eventually.

While I plan to switch, a token of guilt is still alive. The experiences have made me far better and strong as a BDR but blank about the next steps in my career.

Thanks for reading. Do share your thoughts.

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First, it felt like you were yelling at me the whole time because you put all of this in the title and it's bolded. hahaha separate your topic and then fill out the body. This is like putting your whole email in the subject line.

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Sales is soul crushing. Find what you actually love or can generate passive income from and try getting into that as a side hustle, spend a couple hours before and after work on it each day and it will completely reinvigorate your mindset as you choose to focus on your own future on your own terms. Set your own culture

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Really hard to get over the giant block of text in the title, but it sounds like you've been in some toxic workplaces.

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As the old saying goes, we don't live to work, we work to live.

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Bro, sorry for what happened but edit this post title.

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It may have to do with the way I was raised, my personality, the career path I took, or just that fact that other people are assholes 😆.

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Looks like its a tough work environment, either have some truly transparent convos or GTFO

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stop yelling at me and dont put everything in the title!

SSK

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