What is the more important benefit in sales to you? I personally value the flexibility highly

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I value flexibility a LOT, I also value good management and reasonable benchmarks. Too many sales teams have unreasonable quotas to meet and it ends up being super counterproductive because people are just stressed out about quotas rather than doing their best work.

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Flexibility is nice do not get me wrong but I am in sales for money lol. I would not be in this business if it did not come with the potential to bring in large commission s. So, my favorite benefit from being a sales professional is the money

Flexibility but one thing for me is the physical aspect. I am 45 and most of my life worked in physically demanding jobs. Have a bad back and knees. I can make great money and I’m not killing myself anymore

For me its being able to work from home. I have worked from home so long that I don't even know what I would do if I had to go back to the office. I would probably cry. It seems like a lot of companies are making employees RTO and I am glad that mine is not.

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