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torontowarroomrep

Account Executive

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Thinking of leaving sales and exploring other areas of the business. Anyone have suggestions?

Been feeling the grind and the fatigue of Sales lately. Still love the rush and the glory of closing a deal, but lately it's been getting kind of repetitive and not as much fun. Been exploring account management as well as customer success as options.

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antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
If you need to step away, then step away. Get a break, but you will come back itching to close that sale again.
butwhy
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Solutions Engineer
Customer Success is just people bitching at you all the time - another form of grind. Account Management could be fun, maybe Sales Enablement?
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
Are you looking more for relationship management? or project management?
DevSomeBiz
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Senior B2B Sales Guy.
You should read the Johnny Cash Biography by Greg Laurie. It's a really good read. Here's something that I learned - you can't really get off of amphetamines. You can get sorta clean, and you can be functional, but getting really sober is next to impossible.

Go get another job for a while and get some perspective. You'll be back.
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
ohhhh the ole "i think i want to leave sales"

This has been talked about a number of times and really the options you mentioned are the ones with the easiest transitions.

BUT you have to be ok with having less earning potential, less flexibility and less control over your career.
Kosta_Konfucius
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Sales Rep
Whats the man reason? Is it more cold calling and prospecting?
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
So, a few things. Is it sales itself, or where you are working that is a grind? Some times, it's where you are rather than what you do, that is the issue. If you walk away from sales, you are most likely walking away from a higher earning potential. If this is not an issue, then exploring AM and CS could be a path. However, in those roles, you are typically focused on a specific set of customers, so if repetition is a problem for you, I suspect that AM and CS will quickly become tiresome too. However, you may want to take a look at what's out there and available, and make your own honest and personal assessments about what's going to be best for you.
CuriousFox
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Account manager? Marketing? Training?

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