Sales People Party Tits..No Doubt!!

[MattTheSkywalker]

Telecom sales is not the place to be now....neither is network services.

I think you're probably full of shit, and you're just fired up because you were able to close your first decent sale in the past three months. Congrats.

Sales = corporate whores.

Peace

 

[supersizeme]

yeah can i please be a salesman? pretty much every salesman i have ever met in my life has been a tool. first off, your job consists of 90% brown nosing to your customers. i was not born to kiss anyone's ass. you promise a whole bunch of shit you can't deliver so you can make a buck and that's why you need techies/sales engineers watching your back to stop you from lying. wherever you go, even when you're not a work, you're always trying to sell something...be it selling yourself or whatever. these are probably some of the most annoying folks on the planet. they can never seem to get out of salesman mode when they're not working and out on a social level. i rank salesmen right up there with lawyers on the respect ladder.

 

[rudedawg]

Everyone is a salesman. I don't give a shit what line of work you are in you are selling something. Want your girlfriend to give you a hummer at the theater and she doesn't want to but you get her to. Guess what you sold her.

"you promise a whole bunch of shit you can't deliver so you can make a buck and that's why you need techies/sales engineers watching your back to stop you from lying. " Dude there are a lot of different sales job than just techie and engineering products.

"Sales = corporate whores" Didn't you just land a big ass account for your manuals? Let's see you had to "sell" them didn't you?

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

"Sales = corporate whores" Didn't you just land a big ass account for your manuals? Let's see you had to "sell" them didn't you?

Selling something I created is a whole different ballgame than selling products for a corporation.

Widgets anyone?

 

[rudedawg]

Selling something I created is a whole different ballgame than selling products for a corporation.

Widgets anyone?

Oh ok. What if you are an independant contractor and sell for many different companies? Whore or ok guy?

 

[TxCollegeguy]

Well If I dont make Military or Federal Service my lifes work then Sales will be where I go. I've watched my uncle very good for himself in Sales. He's worked for Just about Every major Telecom company in this country. AT&T, Sprint, MCI...At one point in the Early 90's he was playing Golf 3 times a week, Going to 3 Sport events a week and Was at the Final 4 the 2 years Arkansas was kicking ass. Now he Flys to London 1 a month for Business meetings mostly playing Golf in Scotland at one of the British open courses...Not to shabby I think.

He's gone to Every continent except for that giant ice cap down south and experienced a few cultures in his time. I guess it would all depend on your personality and what you want to do with yourself...That sounds like a blast to me

 

[THeMaCHinE]

Did my time in sales (7 years), was successful. Got to a point where I didn't want to make the sacrifices need to be successful at sales. I enjoy not having to attend stupid client functions. I enjoy not having to put pressure on people. I enjoy knowing that when 5:00 comes, I can go home and not think about my job anymore. I enjoy my time being my time -- no weekend or evening appointments. I never have to miss time with my wife or kids to go hobnob with some clueless fucks. No getting pissed on by the client. No having to explain and attempt to implement impossible deadlines on my coworkers. I enjoy knowing exactly how much my paycheck is going to be. And I don't care about rec drugs or boozing it up when I could be doing something with my family, so that's not a plus.

There are some cool aspects to sales, but for me, there were more cons than pros for where I'm at in life right now.

 

[floridaguy]

Seems like many of you have a negative attitude when it comes to sales and people that are involved in sales for a living. You all need to wake up and realize that without someone selling your product or service many of you would not have a job. Another misconception is that we are corporate whores as you put it, i guess that depends on what field you happen to be in, I am lucky enough that I dont answer to anyone but myself. Actually though someone slaving away fearful about getting fired every day would probably be more of a corporate whore wouldn't you think? My point is dont always put down what those of us in sales do, it is probably much more work and effort than most of your jobs. And by the way it pays pretty well if you are good and work hard at it.

 

[rudedawg]

Did my time in sales (7 years), was successful. Got to a point where I didn't want to make the sacrifices need to be successful at sales. I enjoy not having to attend stupid client functions. I enjoy not having to put pressure on people. I enjoy knowing that when 5:00 comes, I can go home and not think about my job anymore. I enjoy my time being my time -- no weekend or evening appointments. I never have to miss time with my wife or kids to go hobnob with some clueless fucks. No getting pissed on by the client. No having to explain and attempt to implement impossible deadlines on my coworkers. I enjoy knowing exactly how much my paycheck is going to be. And I don't care about rec drugs or boozing it up when I could be doing something with my family, so that's not a plus.

There are some cool aspects to sales, but for me, there were more cons than pros for where I'm at in life right now.

All of your reasons to not be a salesman are the reasons that I am....... I work when I want and make what I earn. I am home every night and weekend unless I choose not to be. I coach my oldest son's baseball team and assist on my youngest son's t-ball team....... along with playing softball 2 nights a week and tourney's on the weekends. Depends on what line of sales you are in.

 

[rudedawg]

Seems like many of you have a negative attitude when it comes to sales and people that are involved in sales for a living. You all need to wake up and realize that without someone selling your product or service many of you would not have a job. Another misconception is that we are corporate whores as you put it, i guess that depends on what field you happen to be in, I am lucky enough that I dont answer to anyone but myself. Actually though someone slaving away fearful about getting fired every day would probably be more of a corporate whore wouldn't you think? My point is dont always put down what those of us in sales do, it is probably much more work and effort than most of your jobs. And by the way it pays pretty well if you are good and work hard at it.

Exactly!! Top 5% of the nations wealthiest are in sales of some type.