In your experience, is customer service/support a viable career path in which you can progress and make good money? For the record, the position I recently got is great, and I like the company too.

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I can say for me it has. 8 years ago started as a support agent. Within, 6 months was a manager, pivoted to a new company shifted to a director and now I am a VP. Each promotion was within a year to two of each other. Employees under me I have seen become directors, managers, shift to product or engineering etc. Granted I work for startups so that has its positives for growth and negatives in other ways. But yea it can be but it is very much dependent on the company culture and your managers in my opinion

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This is encouraging! I feel comfortable within my current company, so I could see myself being here for a long time if I can experience similar success to what you've described here. I'm thankful to have decent company culture here. Also, congrats on your success! That's an inspiration.

I will say that customer service is a good career path. But only for certain personality types, and that's why the turnover is high.

This career best fits you if your personality is someone who can handle stressful situations and not take what people say to heart. If you can go home at the end of the day and leave what happened at work in the workplace, then you have a better chance of dealing with the problems that come with it.

I’ve worked in customer service for 10 years. It is a great career path but can be extremely draining. I went from service rep to manager of the service reps. As someone highly introverted, I found that I could excel in this field and learn how to connect with individuals from all backgrounds.

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