re: Anyone else hate their job, but the money is too good to leave it?

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Anyone else hate their job, but the money is too good to leave it?

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Probably most of America


I am a sales engineer at an ISP, I support sales people in a technical role. I come from our infrastructure support and engineering group, so my career focus for a long time was to be as technical as possible. I started this job and quickly realized my technical skills were about 10% of the job, and the rest was shuffling papers, herding cats (salespeople) and making nice with customers and their IT staff. I HATED it at first and almost went back to my previous role, despite it being a 30% pay raise right off the bat (more like 45% after some additional raises since I landed the job). I questioned why it paid so well when the technical skill requirement was so low, because in my brain technical skill = $$$. But nope, generating revenue and preventing revenue loss through salespeople frickups is apparently worth a lot more money than being highly technical. Still irks me sometimes because I put so much work in

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You can do what you truly love and are called to do.

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If i had a calling, I'd drop my job now and do it. I'd have my wife's full backing. I just don't have anything that I'm passionate about enough to try to do it for a living.

Guess I could try to drop my job and go play video games for a living, but I'm nowhere good enough at them for that