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All of our sales coaches originated in a sales role. If you have been successful in sales, it makes you uniquely qualified to coach someone up who is just starting out. By successful, I mean that you haven’t job hopped, and can show some metrics that demonstrate your ability to hit sales targets. For our coaches, we are typically looking for someone that has several years of inside sales experience who is passionate about developing sales talent. Most of our L&D folks started in sales as well. So I would go for it. If you haven’t talked about your interests with the sales coaches or L&D folks at your company, I would start networking with them. So many of my coach hires come from people who expressed an interest to team members before we even had an opening.
Depends on how you frame the transition. It’s ok to be in a question phase; maybe you can use that to network and talk to other people in those roles already. When you are sure of what you want to do, that’s the time to be serious and show your unwavering commitment to whatever that ends up being.
I've heard people say you can transition from sales into just about anything. That overstates it, of course, but a lot of the skills picked up selling can be transferred to other fields. If you do some networking and learn a lot about where you want to go, you can probably position yourself to pivot into another career.
I highly doubt you wouldn’t be taking seriously. Get your foot in the door may be tricky. Just depends. But it’s normal for people to jump around and try different things in their career.