I’m trying to decide wether to transition to one of the following, all within tech companies:

- Sales Engineering
- Tech sales (SDR)
- Customer Success

Which one would you choose based on career growth, income generation and network growth . For some context, I have some background as systems engineer.

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I would probably do engineering since its your background. If you go to the other 2 would depends on if you like relationship building(customer success) or doing outbound/inbound sales (sdr)

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