Can someone explain to me why sales can be a lucrative profession?

It’s quickly becoming a dying profession.

you're jealous of the incredibly stupid yet incredibly attractive sales rep with big tits and how much money she makes aren't you?


i know i am.

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I'd think so, but every salesman I've ever met tells you about how much money he makes

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Salesmen sell. Most of the time, it means they sell themselves.

Sales is an awful lifestyle unless your managing UHNWIs, clients interested in acquisitions, or institutional investors.

Eat what you kill

Pricing is still heavily guarded on expensive stuff.

For instance, go Google yourself the price of a new locomotive. You cant. Gotta talk to the sales guy.

You still have to wine and dine customers and convince them to buy your stuff over your competitor's stuff.

Business relationships that are formed by sales people will never go away. It’s about the service and trust with your guy knowing he will get it done and deliver for you.

Simple order takers probably don't make that much money.

But sales for complex products with high profit margins are a different matter altogether. My company is a major IT services provider and lots of our business is with governments across the world. Lots of deals are in the 8-9 figure USD range and we have teams of salespeople who have spent their careers building the right relationships and understand enough about a complex product to pitch what the customer stakeholders might want. Not only that, but they know the details of the regulations involving government contracts in multiple jurisdictions.

This kind of sales work is every bit as highly technical as a STEM job, they earn their money.

Another example is selling fighter jets. You can bet Lockheed and Boeing (and their Russian counterparts) have people who have spent the past 20 years of their professional lives meeting young Middle Eastern crown princes at major international airshows. Then when said princes become kings you'll want access to that relationship.

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Anyone can get online and find any product they want.

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Do you realize how lazy and stupid most people are? Anyway most of the engineers I work with are dumb as a rock in the field I specialize in. It’s a very lucrative field, you just gotta be good.

Depends what your selling, if your selling to high end buyers you can make great money. Most sales jobs are cyclical, I'm in the institutional fixed income investment business...right now it sucks, but when it's good it is great. Top guys make really big money.