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| When I grow up... |
| 07.02.07 (7:12 pm) [edit] |
| Totally and completely FRUSTRATED with my job. Convo with my 'manager' this afternoon was the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. There are... 5 sales reps. As in sales, we have a monthly quota. Two of the reps have been there for more than a year. Not one of them has, in the almost 3 months I've been with the company, hit their quota. Yet I was treated like a three-year old by the boss this afternoon on a phone call. I bit my tongue and kept from saying what was really on my mind. I'm in sales to make money. I'm working my tail off to get the message out there and get in front of as many people as possible. I am not making money (and nor is the company) from my activity. Started perusing job openings. Feeling extremely restless career-wise. I think I want to get out of sales. Actually, I know I want to get out of sales. What I want to do, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. |
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 07.02.07 (6:46 pm)
There is no more difficult and challenging job than to be a strictly commissioned salesman. I've done it. Sometimes I was successful. A few times I was fired. It's tough. My hat's off to you.
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 07.02.07 (7:37 pm)
You're good at it. Your personality is well suited to it. You just need to luck into a good product and a good company... A nice base salary wouldn't be bad either. Although, maybe there aren't any of those jobs left these days.
One of my best friends stated selling gym dividers (of all things) about five years ago for a small firm. I thought... how the hell many of those can he possibly sell? Well by gum, it took him a couple of years where he pretty much just lived on his small but adequate salary and laid the groundwork, getting to know school and church archetects and getting his and the comp[any's name out there, but the last few years he's been knocking them dead. It took a realistic and patient company - and his own patience, of course, and he came to really believe that what he was selling was the best on the market, at least value-wise; also important.
It has to be really frustrating to sell something you aren't sure you believe in because of the way the company is run.
posted by: scubadiva (reply)
post date: 07.02.07 (8:04 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
I've been fired more times than I can count from sales jobs. (Okay, I can count pretty high, so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit...)
If salespeople only sold products or services they believed in, about 11 people would be employed in sales across the country. I resolved that issue years ago by adopting a consultative sales approach where I built relationships with my clients. I love bringing solutions to the table.
Unfortunately, relationships take time to forge and meeting someone just before they are ready to drop $25k+ on websites are rare...
And I never said I was straight-commission. Hell no. I'd never take a gig like that. Ever.
posted by: scubadiva (reply)
post date: 07.02.07 (8:09 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
I'm good at a lot of things but I don't pursue all of them professionally. (Some of those things are considered illegal...)
I do not have the energy to keep up with the grind of sales anymore. Every month having to deal with the continual "what else are you going to close this month" crap.
It's been suggested to me a ridiculous number of times to start my own business, but I do not want the responsibility and the commitment and investment required. (Not to mention health insurance - I cannot get it on my own.)
I'm restless professionally. I'm meeting with some of my professional mentors to have some serious heart-to-hearts and brainstorming sessions over the coming weeks. I'm invaluable to a lot of people and I'm trying to figure a way to harness that and make a living from it.
Or I can try prostitution. Investment required? Slutty clothes, pleather thigh-high boots and Sam's Club size of Industrial Triple-Ply Condoms.
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 07.03.07 (3:51 am)
Reply to: scubadiva
See? Now I've learned something. I never knew there were triple-ply condoms. Are they made by the Bounty people?
Or maybe the Polmolive people. Rosie smiles knowingly and says, "You're soaking in it."
posted by: scubadiva (reply)
post date: 07.03.07 (6:55 am)
Reply to: surrogate
I don't know if there is such a thing, but I'd want to have at least three of those suckers on me at once to make sure nothin' got through.
by Redonthehead