I just want to say this sub has been great for my mental health
Or I suppose you could say my mood and overall happiness.
I got my first sales job a little out of Uni doing 360 sales on the phone for a year, then followed up with a bdr enterprise software role for 1.5 years and promoted to NB/AE after that. I absolutely loved phone sales, the comradeship, the energy in the office, the autonomy.
In AE role i had a great 1st year, it was tough, but i came out smashing my year 1 targets.
Then covid, then P.E take over, then new product.
With covid I just completely lost the passion; not being around your sales team day in day out, no in person meetings, no travel, moving back to the parents house because its got garden etc. And with our new product lets just say the last 1.5yrs have been tougher than i hoped.
This sub is great, discussions about sales tactics to read about, seeing people a few years infront or behind me and their thoughts, its brought back that sales discussion that covid has taken.
I saw a conversation between a few veterans saying "if you havent been fired from atleast 1 sales job you havent been in sales", and i dont think im anywhere near being fired but I just loved that.
This sub is so much more active and legit than any other role or work based subs ive seen.
Any way rant over, lots of love.
Posted Aug 7, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC
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I went to the office at my new job once. It was draining. I cant believe people are actually excited to go back to the office, especially full time.
Maybe my colleagues are just annoying 🤷♂️
If it was a regular office job I’d agree with you but I think sales is different, or maybe it’s just different where I am. The whole team thrives off of each other’s success and being together.
Plus I’d been on a mission to work where I do then 10 seconds after I got hired they sent us home because of Covid so I haven’t been at the office long enough to know any negative sides of being there lol
Unfortunately all my other colleagues aren't good at the job at all, plus half of them seem to have some serious attitude problems. I tend to call up former colleagues (and one guy at my current job) who I respect professionally to discuss our work and bounce ideas off eachother. I feel my current colleagues have little to offer in terms of learning from them.