Does working in sales make you feel like you're losing your edge? I’ve been working in sales for 5 years, since graduating from college, and feel like I'm less intelligent than before I started school. Because it’s all soft skills, I don't feel intellectually challenged, and I’m getting so forgetful. I have friends in other careers who are fully engaged all day, while I'm using 10% of my brainpower. Am I alone?

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That hasn’t been my experience… but I’m always up-skilling myself through continuing education, grabbing a designation or certification… or finding ways to get in front of the right client instead of any client…

Do I have friends who are smarter than me? Absolutely… Do they look down at me? Maybe… Do I make significantly more than my friends who are doctors, lawyers and college professors (truly by definition more educated)? A resounding yes…

So why do I care?… you can have your degrees, accolades and high stress jobs… I’ll keep my 7-figure compensation, while working no more than 50 hours a week…

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i agree. to be honest, i think an ideal sales process is well documented and teachable.

if you gotta use your brain a ton maybe it’s like a super technical niche i suppose? but i try to design my sales process as simple as possible so I can scale it

Idk if i have the same experience, but i am not a pure sales person. I still oversee the projects (and use analysts to prepare deliverables)

Im not sure, like I feel my capacity is already low and it was lower in my last job. I also was paying minimum wage which wasnt much of an incentive for being yelled at and treated badly in other ways by cxs

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