Would you still get into sales if you had to do it over? I’ve been in sales for almost 8 years now. Mostly SaaS. Started as an SDR, now Enterprise AE. I’m not burned out exactly, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about *why* I’m doing this. What triggered it was this random convo I had at a block party last weekend. I was talking to a guy who’s a civil engineer. He seemed ... calm. Like, genuinely content. Just said he liked solving problems, liked that his work actually got built, and was planning to stay put for a while. Sales has given me a lot. I’ve made good money. I’ve met smart people. I learned how to handle rejection, how to communicate, how to not panic when someone tells me no. It’s made me sharper. But I also feel like my job is to live in a CRM, chase people who don’t want to talk, and manage politics between RevOps and my manager while pretending I’m “crushing it.” If you could do it over, would you still choose sales? Or would you take a different path?
No, I would have become a full stack engineer
I don't know. Like everybody, I'd change some things about how I went about it or where I worked, but I think I'd stay in sales if I had to do it all over.
very few people are happy in their job dude. id rather be unfulfilled and paid well in sales than probably still unhappy and underpaid at something else. the grass is rarely greener.