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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Salesperson here.  We know you told us to leave you alone with our cold calls, but chances are, we're not going to unless you bring in some legal action.  Until then, you're fair game.  We also have no idea what's going on in terms of the products we sell or their features; our products team does that, so go talk to them.  Everything I tell you, including reactions to objections, is read off a script more or less.  The kids that go work for us straight out of college, with a few exceptions, aren't the sharpest crayons in the box and are more than happy to earn a meager salary as long as they get free booze at happy hour and can go party the second work ends.  We also don't earn anywhere as much as glorified sales movies will have you believe.[/quote]

Ummm...no shit, to all of this.  Anyone who didn't think this about sales prior to reading your post isn't very smart.[/quote]

You'd be surprised!  A lot of young kids are telling their (equally uninformed) peers about people like Gary Vaynerchuk and Tim Ferriss and how they all promote "working in sales" and how it's "such a cash cow."   :roll: Never mind that Vaynerchuk and Ferriss are both hucksters ...[/quote]

Yeah. My husband is in sales and makes 3-400k depending on the year. This year hopefully 5ook. He has stock options worth 800k. I got so lucky in sales as a college drop out and was making 200k. [/quote]

My neighbor also works in sales (medical equipment) and makes really good money. I have a feeling the PP who wrote the dirty secret works at a call center, not really in sales. [/quote]

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