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When did you realize you were going into sales?
When did you realize you were going to be a sales savage?
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When I realized that I wanted money.
Girl same. 💰
Yup. Being broke sucks
When I realized I have zero technical skills, a mediocre ability to converse with people, and a desire to to make money and not give 2 shits about what people think about me. Only was successful at 1 of 3 of those things. That's a .333 batting average for you baseball fans out there. And that's when I realized sales was my calling. You only need to be partially successful to be successful.
I love this - the scrappy ones win in sales
When bartending and getting smashed every night wasn’t my future and I hated the thought of staring at spreadsheets all day
Took me one account class in college to realize that same thing lol
Accounting is so miserable. it's literally a thankless job and mostly for introverts
Thats facts right there. Also bartended and had the opportunity to work in alcohol - glad I steered away from that
Scratch golfer I play with from time to time works for a huge liquor distributor and makes good money but he's always on call and he's got a major addiction to the nose candy. I have no idea how his heart is still pumping.
I saw how much money I'd make to sit in a chair and annoy the crap outta people. Was already doing that for free
When I realized I didn't like Marketing
Someone told me recently "dont tell people youre in sales, just say youre in marketing" and boyyy was I heated
Hahahaha
When I saw his stupid rich small business owners can be at my first job our of the army.
Once I realised a drama degree doesn't get me very far and I needed money
Here was my trajectory:
- Needed a job to get through university so I could pay rent
- Got a shitkicker cold call slog role at an outsourced lead gen agency.
- Lol I'll just stick this out til I get a degree-related job
- Discover I'm really good at it
- Get promoted
- Get promoted again
- Full time uni and part time work becomes part time uni and full time work
- Realise at this point I'll take a severe pay cut if I even manage to get a degree-related job
- Double down on sales, move from SDR to AE and doubled my income
- Needed a job to get through university so I could pay rent
- Got a shitkicker cold call slog role at an outsourced lead gen agency.
- Lol I'll just stick this out til I get a degree-related job
- Discover I'm really good at it
- Get promoted
- Get promoted again
- Full time uni and part time work becomes part time uni and full time work
- Realise at this point I'll take a severe pay cut if I even manage to get a degree-related job
- Double down on sales, move from SDR to AE and doubled my income
When I found out it was the only way to make a lot of money and not have to go to more school or work 80 hours a week
When I realized I have zero technical skills, a mediocre ability to converse with people, and a desire to to make money and not give 2 shits about what people think about me. Only was successful at 1 of 3 of those things. That's a .333 batting average for you baseball fans out there. And that's when I realized sales was my calling.
I loved selling stuff door to door as a kid (popcorn, magazine subscriptions, etc.)
Once I understood the concept of the harder I worked the more I could make, easy 🧐
SO simple yet so powerful
Exactly. Literally couldn't imagine being in a role where I don't make more money for working harder and better.
Got bored of legal and saw friends having fun in sales (2 years post college)
And probably making more lol
You’re not wrong friend haha
When I realized I have always been competitive and wanted to determine my own fiscal outcome
After a few years in a stagnant industry, wanted a change and made the leap.
Late bloomer but things are flowing now.
Late bloomer but things are flowing now.
Stumbled into it. First job offered. Just took it. The rest is history….
During an internship at a startup. I learned that the VP of Sales was making the same amount of money as the founders
I worked at a gym in college (making minimum wage and no commissions on memberships) and one of the regulars (older man, S/O Jim) told me "you're pretty and manipulative, you should go into sales." Andddddd with that, the dream began! 😂
When I realized that coming out of college with a science degree and a lab tech's salary was not enough to cover SF rent. Plus doing what you want, when you want, is the life I want to have.
When I read an Ad on Reddit for a sales bootcamp
When I walked into a tech startup, and saw all the nice people working, but someone explained "yeah everyone here has a salary and full benefits and get's free lunch... but the salespeople get extra cash every month JUST FOR DOING THEIR JOB" and I was sold.
Needed a job and was not qualified to do any other job.
I’d leave for the same base package, but that is due to personal reasons and the current commish package being poop
I'd need to see at least 50k+ more...I have a longer term strategy here and it wouldn't benefit me to leave for less.
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