Question: how does pharmaceutical sales work? If you are a sales person in a particular territory, what does the day to day job look like?

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Depends on the product and territory. If you have an established product in a dense area like Manhattan, you can be working for 3 hours a day. If it’s new, or a complex product with buy and bill, you can be quite busier. Driving adds a lot of time

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Pretty much just like The Wire.

Your day depends how successful you want to be. You are the driver of your day and are motivated either for your own needs or for the needs of your customers. If you are looking for a glamorous 10-2 job and no work after hours, then long term success may not be in your cards. But…it can be very rewarding (not just $) if you put your customer/patients needs first and become a dependable:trustworthy resource with more than 10-2

Unfortunately there are so many different answers to these questions, it would be a disservice to reply without a specific job in reference.

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