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Not made the jump but it may be helpful to think of salesfolk as less used-car salesmen types and more like mutual fund or tech software salesmen types.
I came from tech sales. It’s a grind. Summers are slow. Unless you start out selling to large enterprises the money won’t be that great. I find more intelligent people work in consulting too and that makes the work more meaningful.
Thank you for your insight! Would this vary depending on if the role is more of an account manager /account exec role compared to a sales rep role? Not sure I fully understand the differences between those roles tbh
Salespeople who have a base over $100K are quite rare, and those who sustain 200K+ total compensation are equally as uncommon. There are people who do it, but they are the top 5-10% in their field and there is some degree of luck/timing as well.
If you have a powerful network that can help, or if you are hired by a company with a great product who has not already saturated the market but is getting strong adoption - for example Google Cloud, Tableau, or Snowflake a couple of years ago.
Interested in hearing about this as well! Curious what the day to day in tech sales looks like