Take the salespill

How do I get in?
Do you convince people to buy your shit or what do you do? Do you cold call?
On phone all day?

Can confirm. Was in sales for most of my 20s as an SE. Finally quit though because constantly being social when I'm one step away from full strength autism really got to me. Now I'm taking some time to work on my own projects now that I have enough capital where I don't have to put up with that shit.

Made 294k last year so I'll certainly miss the pay, but at the same time I was ready to rope if I did it one more day so I'm not going back.

What are the requirements to get into this? I have high IQ (135+) but no college degree and spotty but somewhat useful employment history in analysis. Not superb social skills but decent, no sales experience but have the mentality and ability to learn. Solid at holding conservation and very good at making logical arguments. Are these only available to work from tech hubs or are midmarkets like Florida, Texas, other fledgling tech centers available? Would learning programming be useful at all? Thanks OP.

Sales is becoming more and more remote friendly. You'll have to start somewhere - cars, real estate, SaaS as some examples. Programming won't really help with sales.

Hey if you could answer some questions I'd be really appreciative.
>my 20s as an SE
SE meaning sales engineer/exec or software engineer? How did you end up in that role of you consider yourself autistic, by learning it as a skill set? Also I'd ask you the same questions as in my post above to the OP. Thanks much

Daily data entry in CRM, (fuck off, salesforce)

>Pointless meetings and “calls” with middle/upper management with another iteration of number go up good, number go down bad
Consistently revising the commission structure to reduce payouts while increasing quota, forcing you to do more with less.
>Stupid awards like pens and other cheap, chinkware.
>Money is good if you’re willing to die inside.

user link us a job posting that would meet this criteria

I’ll share this after four years in the medical device game; once you’ve maxed out your territory and they refuse to increase your base pay, it’s time for a new, better job. If you want to sell for a competitor, never sell for the smaller, up-and-coming outfit, they won’t pay out as well with many not even offering a 401K.

user give a quick rundown on how you got started and what skills you might need. Also this

There’s a guy at Splunk who closed a 75M deal with PayPal about a year ago, probably made 5M that year

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