What do y’all respond with when family and friends ask what you do for work?? I usually say “I help the sales team sell software” but that sounds super lame 🤔

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I just go with a super generic. “I work for a software company”. Satisfies the answer for those asking purely as a formality. Anyone who is genuinely interested will ask some sort of follow up question. Only after that do I go into any actual detail.

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You know Q in Bond? Basically that's me, with Bond being a very optimistic and generous portrayal of my sales rep.

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That sounds so funny SF4, we should create a Q division too 😂 let me propose that to my company

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I usually say "I'm in software sales" then if they're at all interested I elaborate.

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Agreed, haha, why would you answer something lame? Imagine Musk saying he does "science stuff" for a living, lol.

Say: "I close multimillion dollar tech deals through client pitches and management presentations."

@OP, you and I may work in completely different industries, but in many ways our roles are very much alike. 😉

Take good care of my son in there! He just started his first job as a SE at Workday.

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Lmao, that’s the worst possible response. I would laugh out loud if someone gave me that answer with a straight face.

Hope your son isn’t bringing that energy here 😉

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If it doesn’t include the office space quote, “I take the specs from the customer to the engineers…” 🤣

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Im a businessman doing business

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I say that I work in cyber, if they ask more questions I say I help potential customers test our product in the environment as part of the sales process.

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I tell them that I make customers feel comfortable spending six figures on a software package by demonstrating how everything fits into their system.

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Same as most, I just say I work in tech sales and almost everyone loses interest after that.

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“Sales doesn’t actually know how to use the software, they know how to sell. I do know the software, so I help them by configuring and demoing the software for sales calls” - sincerely, a slightly bitter implementation specialist 😂

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I ask if they have seen Mad Men. If they have, then I explain that I do a bit of what Don Draper does and a bit of what Peggy does, but rather than selling advertising it’s software. The idea is that my job is to differentiate our solution from everyone else’s by pitching a big idea, making customers have an emotional connection to our solution and helping them under how we can transform their business.

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I’m in IT, usually it ends there.

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I make our tech work with clients tech

For adults I would just say solution engineer or technical sales and let them figure out.
For college students I would attempt to explain what and why.

Sales.

I just say that I’m a presales.

And then, if anyone asks for more, I explain 😂.

Work as part of the sales team. Providing technical and product expertise during the sales cycle. Then just back it up with "pre sales"

I wouldn't let the share price put you off from a role, RSU's just aren't an attractive value prop these days particularly for people outside the states

I just say “software sales”, seems to be enough for most people

“I’m in the tech industry.” Simple as that

“My sellers get marketing people interested, then I cover the technical questions and sell their developers on the project”

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