antiASKHOLE

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Tis the Season - Be Thankful

Hey Savages,

I have been thinking a lot about what this last year has been able to provide for my family and myself. A year ago at my last job, I was fearful of what was going to happen over the next few months. Sales cycles were long and deals took a while to be funded and paid out. If I didn't have a good July/August, Xmas would be terrible.

Fast forward to January of this year, I started a new job in SaaS and was relieved to find the sales cycles and payouts to be sooo much shorter. I am thankful for this community as I pulled a lot of value and tips away on how to jump from a BDR to an AE at a new company which has, best I can tell, almost doubled my income in one year.

I just want to say that I am thankful for ya'll.

What are you thankful for?

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jefe

Arsonist

🍁

We appreciate you @antiASKHOLE!

I'm thankful for being able to marry my amazing wife, buy our first house, and the job I started earlier this year. (even though our thanksgiving was in October)

And you Savages are okay too...

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I appreciate you as well sir. It has been a fun year for you and I think this next year will be even better.

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

I too am thankful for being able to marry my amazing wife, buy my first house and the job I started last year which is going really well. Maybe we are brothers from different mothers, even a fellow Canuck haha

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Amazing stuff, congrats!

What part of this fine country are you in?

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I'm from the part that isn't Canada. "The land of Florida man"

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

I live in the balmy climes of SK.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

@antiASKHOLEnever a dull moment for ya then, I'm sure. And no snow on the ground like I have.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

@sketchysalesAhh, such lovely topography.

I just moved from Toronto to about an hour away from midtown/Toronto proper. 45ish minutes from 'Toronto'

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I'll going back to my home state next week. Good ole Michigan.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

That's close enough to Canada. Hope you have some good eats and a bit of snow.

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

haha dont we know it. I travel a lot for work, get a nice balance of big city on the road and quiet home life on the weekends, i like it. Although it is stupidly cold now.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

@sketchysalesit was so damn warm here the last few weeks. It was like 17 on Friday. And then snow yesterday, a bit on the grass but none on the ground. Such a sudden shift.

I definitely appreciate the quiet home life - that's a reason I moved out of Toronto (and also being able to afford a house, and a yard)

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

I was down in the states last week and it was a good 20 degrees in Chicago, so good.

And yes, not only the quiet space but the yard is great. Land is so cheap where i am, makes it worth living with the weather i find.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

lets gooo!!!! love it! This year has also been one of the most successful ones ever.

we are debt free, paid cash for a car, put money away for the future and are about to book a house on the beach for a full month.

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

What can be more exciting than being debt free, happy for you.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

thanks! after a terrible financial start to my career for 5 years, it took a number of years to recover but now thanks to some good luck and hard work we are in a really great spot.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

That is awesome man!

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

I think it is important to stop and reflect on all we've learned and accomplished in the past year.

Although I'm sitting at home with 2 sick kids, a sick wife and am ill myself, I know this will pass and am thankful that I have these amazing people in my life, have the health network to take care of us all, have our own house to recover in and have a job that understands somethings are more important than being in the office.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Oh damn! Rest up and take care of yourselves.

Hope you all feel better soon.

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

Thanks! We're resting and fortunately have some great neighbours who gave us some children's meds which are hard to find.

Just need to catch up on sleep and we'll be G2G.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

As long as they don't get you soup from Timmy's

https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2022/11/tim-hortons-chicken-noodle-soup-recall/

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Man, I miss being able to go to Timmy's, one of the few things I miss about Michigan. I was PISSED last year when I went up and they stopped serving hot apple cider for some reason though... I'll check in a few weeks when I go back up for Thanksgiving to see family.

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

Tim's has gone downhill hard in the past few years, I don't know what the hell they are thinking but it is definitely not about customer service or quality.

I will go out of my way to avoid them now, but this is horrible. I bet the grocery store coffee is just as bad.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

That is tough to hear. I moved 5 years ago from Michigan to Florida and it wasn't "the best" at that time either, but it was still solid.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

I stopped going like 5-6 years ago.

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

It really went downhill when they got bought out by RBI in 2014.

I finally gave up when I found every location just massacred my bagels. Its really just insulting to their customers the crap they serve now.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Yea, that basically lines up with my giving up. The final straw was ordering chicken noodle soup, paying FAR too much for it, and getting literally *2* tiny pieces of chicken in it.

Mobi85

Politicker

Regional Sales Manager

sorry to hear you all are sick and hope it passes quick.

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

Thanks, we're all good just extra juicy over here lol

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

wish you and your family a quick recovery. Positive vibes.

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

Thanks :)

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Hope you all feel better soon!

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

Thank you :)

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

What a great post.

I'm so thankful to have the job I do, working with the people with whom I work - sometimes you have to have it bad to know how good it is when you do get something good.

I have a great family and honestly, don't want to jinx things by saying any more. :)

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Amen to that. I have been down pretty bad in the past- homeless and jobless at one point to living "OK" and it looks brighter than ever.

My family is pretty awesome too :)

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Sure sounds that way! Honestly, it's inspiring. Happy for you!

Gyro25

Notorious Answer

Account Executive

Thankful to now be in a closing role and plan to make some serious $ next year by either killing it or jumping ship.

Either way, I'm grateful to be able to work from my pyjamas and eventually live, laugh love like Julia Robert's.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'm thankful for your Mom.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I'm pretty thankful for her as well for a lot of things. What about you?

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Kids just don't understand. The OGs know up in here 😎

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

hint of sarcasm in my response haha

Fenderbaum

Politicker

Retired Choirboy🪕

I'm thankful for my awesome wife and son! Also, thankful to be comfortably retired. And...thankful for The Three Stooges.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I see you struck a nerve with a few people. LMAO downvotes for days.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

haha

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

💦

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Had an amazing journey, last year joined a new company as I wasn't enjoying my last role. Things are going great here - awesome product and the people around, customers are super happy post purchase, I have been exceeding quota and so much more 🙏

NoSuperhero

Politicker

BDR LEAD

Highly important to stop and reflect and being grateful for what we have. What am I thankful for this year? Even though I had a lot of ups and downs, got fired, laid off and now on my way to be one of the leaders at my new company, I'm simply grateful for it all that has happened and mainly my family that has been resilient with me and pushed me forward as well.

kitchennightmares

Contributor

Line Cook

This is a great thread. You can't want more if you're unsatisfied with what you currently have.

Anker

Opinionated

SAE (Senior Account Executive)

Thankful that, as this was a tough year for our product (avg. quota attainment for Sr. AE’s is at 56% to date) my wife and I were able to be frugal and still have a nice year. Thankful for still having a job and working with mostly honest, generous AE’s. Thankful my college age kids are still sticking out college through Covid, and thankful to live in a beautiful part of the world. In the end, it’s family, family, family.

Arzola

Valued Contributor

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Business administration

class="Apple-interchange-newline">The community also appreciates you, although in the first post I put you were not very kind and I am grateful to be healthy, the comment sounds common, but my family has had several bad years and even that comforts me

SADNES5

Politicker

down voters are marketing spies

Lol @Gastybot detected

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Yup, farming commission and random invites to keep up on leaderboard it seems.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Oh we notice 👀

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

Thanks for tagging @SADNES5

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

As far as the "class= Apple-interchange-newline"> goes, seems like a bug to me.

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