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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These folks are academically weak and need some way to make money. [/quote]

A good salesman out earns most people with more impressive degrees. Even in fields with professional degrees, rainmaker big law partners  are really just salesmen. The difference between a great doctor and a regular doctor usually comes down less to skill and more to their ability to sell themselves as a great doctor. I can't think of any field where this doesn't apply, even the best engineers who form start ups are successful in raising VC because they can sell themselves and their ideas. [/quote]

My DH Is in sales and has a bachelor's in kinesiology/exercise science from a state school. He outearns me and I have an Ivy MBA.[/quote]

Sales is interesting in that it's a skill you can't really learn but if you're born with it then it feels like it should be considered an unskilled job. You literally just do everyday things like talk to people, go to lunch, ask about the kids/dogs, etc but just in a way that most people enjoy [/quote]

I'm the PP and my DH (and my FIL) are just born salespeople.  Not surprisingly, their ancestors came here in the colonial days and were merchants and everyone has done something similar.[/quote]

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