re: People who work in sales: how do you like it?

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For a newbie I'd definitely get a healthy base pay a s safety net, everyone thinks they are good salespeople until they arent or times get tough. I'd honestly say maybe 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 salespeople at our company would last long term on a low to no salary plan.

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I quit my sales job because I refused to work for the salary bonus bullshite.

You cant be a straght commission guy with 10 years in same territory where you have 85% of all business. You simply cant make it up by having yoy growth to make the big bonuses. It just doesnt happen. And I wasnt going to work my arse off for 1/2 of the pay I was getting prior IF I made the base bonus.

Full commission and you have a 97% year, you make 97%. I made forecast about 90% of the time my whole career. I wasnt getting fired, ever.

But the cut to salary plus and the mandating of salesforcedotcom was enough to make me jump. I really got tired of making up shite to put in it. You call on a guy or a gal that has been your friend for a decade, its hard to talk about anything but true business and personal. He or she doesnt want to hear the latest company initiative.