If I have the personality to do well in sales should I switch careers or try to use that to climb the corporate ladder?

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I’m in industry now and everyone in a sales group is corrupt. We have had so many investigations around the whole sales group over the past few years.
When interviewing, get a feel for KPIs, is there a lot of pressure at the top? If there is pressure RUN.

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This is good advice thanks!

Side note I’m now in FP&A so making it to partner and selling there isn’t an option

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