Is there anything I can career shift to age 43?

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Anonymous wrote:That’s pretty decent. Maybe look at adjusting your lifestyle to fit your salary? How much does your wife make?

Op - we are in nyc so col insane.
Wife makes about $650 - 750 (depending on bonus). But again in nyc that is prob equivalent of $250 in dc.
I would like to make it more even so she can step back

If you can’t live on 800-900 k combined you have a spending problem.

You also are never going to make enough to alllw her to step back if you’re used to spending that much.

OP pivoting to a career making $300k in your 40s is not happening unless you have a buddy at a hedge fund willing to throw you a line for a mid level position.

He could go into sales and could easily make that and more.

Sales is a washout career. I mean, he could become an actor too and make $Ms

He’s going to start as an inside sales monkey at a tech company cold calling leads for $80k, and then work his way up to account executive managing down FAANG account? Don’t a huge amount of sales folks wash out?

If I misunderstood the process and washout rate, I would love to know how to just pop into sales. I’m a 40 year old civil engineer and would love to make more money to pay for my kids colleges. Please show me this path to wealth in sales??? I have applied to dozens of sales engineer jobs as a possible stepping stone, but nada. I’m sure I need to actually network my way in and sell myself for the role, but figured I would just look so ridiculous beyond measure chasing a young man’s game.

Washout rate is huge plus a lot of those that don’t wash out just limp by tbh.

I work in a role in tech where I see what every salesperson sells and their commission. And My DH has worked in sales since he was 22.

So you contradict PP recommendation for a 40 year old pivot to sales??

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Anonymous wrote:That’s pretty decent. Maybe look at adjusting your lifestyle to fit your salary? How much does your wife make?

Op - we are in nyc so col insane.
Wife makes about $650 - 750 (depending on bonus). But again in nyc that is prob equivalent of $250 in dc.
I would like to make it more even so she can step back

If you can’t live on 800-900 k combined you have a spending problem.

You also are never going to make enough to alllw her to step back if you’re used to spending that much.

OP pivoting to a career making $300k in your 40s is not happening unless you have a buddy at a hedge fund willing to throw you a line for a mid level position.

He could go into sales and could easily make that and more.

Sales is a washout career. I mean, he could become an actor too and make $Ms

He’s going to start as an inside sales monkey at a tech company cold calling leads for $80k, and then work his way up to account executive managing down FAANG account? Don’t a huge amount of sales folks wash out?

If I misunderstood the process and washout rate, I would love to know how to just pop into sales. I’m a 40 year old civil engineer and would love to make more money to pay for my kids colleges. Please show me this path to wealth in sales??? I have applied to dozens of sales engineer jobs as a possible stepping stone, but nada. I’m sure I need to actually network my way in and sell myself for the role, but figured I would just look so ridiculous beyond measure chasing a young man’s game.

You do realize everything gets “sold” not just tech. I have never worked in inside sales, don’t sell tech, have never made a cold call, most of the people I work with came into sales after 50 and never worked inside sales. What you mentioned is one path there are literally a million others.

People have such a narrow mind of what sales is and how much people actually make. It isn’t all tech/SaaS.

I have already been paid over $500k since Jan 1.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s pretty decent. Maybe look at adjusting your lifestyle to fit your salary? How much does your wife make?

Op - we are in nyc so col insane.
Wife makes about $650 - 750 (depending on bonus). But again in nyc that is prob equivalent of $250 in dc.
I would like to make it more even so she can step back

If you can’t live on 800-900 k combined you have a spending problem.

You also are never going to make enough to alllw her to step back if you’re used to spending that much.

OP pivoting to a career making $300k in your 40s is not happening unless you have a buddy at a hedge fund willing to throw you a line for a mid level position.

He could go into sales and could easily make that and more.

Sales is a washout career. I mean, he could become an actor too and make $Ms

He’s going to start as an inside sales monkey at a tech company cold calling leads for $80k, and then work his way up to account executive managing down FAANG account? Don’t a huge amount of sales folks wash out?

If I misunderstood the process and washout rate, I would love to know how to just pop into sales. I’m a 40 year old civil engineer and would love to make more money to pay for my kids colleges. Please show me this path to wealth in sales??? I have applied to dozens of sales engineer jobs as a possible stepping stone, but nada. I’m sure I need to actually network my way in and sell myself for the role, but figured I would just look so ridiculous beyond measure chasing a young man’s game.

You do realize everything gets “sold” not just tech. I have never worked in inside sales, don’t sell tech, have never made a cold call, most of the people I work with came into sales after 50 and never worked inside sales. What you mentioned is one path there are literally a million others.

People have such a narrow mind of what sales is and how much people actually make. It isn’t all tech/SaaS.

I have already been paid over $500k since Jan 1.

I only look into tech sales because I am a technical expert in related fields — so I just start selling — paper — what?? Your advise is so cryptic. I laid out the path my friends on sales have taken — please share one for someone starting at 50. Every sales job posting I’ve ever seen expects existing sales experience — so how did you jump into yours without any??