I work in sales, and I have been in sales for about 10 years. I'm only 26 years old, and sales is all I have ever done. I used to like it until now. Now I just can't stand begging people to spend money with me and purchase my product for their business. It's a very demoralizing feeling, and I always feel unwanted by the business owners. I don't like approaching people cold to ask them to buy my crap. Do I need to just be a man and accept that nobody likes their jobs and just do it, or do I need a career makeover? If not sales, then what can I do? How do I find what my calling is? Please help, all advice appreciated! Thanks.
2006-10-29 15:05:39 · 29 answers · asked by Steven S 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
if aft 10 years of work and you have not even save enough money to build a small business, then you reli need to wake up... Time to get a new job or start to build a small business. Learn how to earn passive income... Make your money work for you and not you work for money.
Of course, easier said then done. But at least you try in doing something that you have interest in.
10 years in a job is just way too long...
Anyway, good luck.
2006-10-29 15:10:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I also have been in a job I have hated for 20 years. I went directly into this from high school and haven't stopped yet. I tried to follow my true dreams, but the cut in pay always gets me back into it. Starting your own biz sounds OK, but just keep in mind, you will now be the sole person unhappy customers will come to. You are going to be the worker, manager, owner; you're going to be IT. Think long and hard if that's the responsibility you want to carry every day. I'm not discouraging you, but my fiance and I started our own biz, and we didn't realize what stress there is involved. There are rewards,also. We don't have a boss to kiss up to, we work when we want, we take vacation whenever we get the urge, and we make the same amount of money we would if we were both working full time at jobs we hate. My theory in life, now that I'm reaching 40, is people are better off not having so much "stuff", and working less or in a job they like for less money. I remember working 50-60 hours as a nurse just so I could have a nice house, new cars etc. It just wasn't worth it!
2006-10-29 23:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've learned that whenever I start feeling like that about a job, it's time for a change. Since you have so much experience in sales, how about a career in sales where you're not approaching people cold, but working with customers who are already looking at buying a product? Selling cars, insurance, real estate, etc. would be a breeze after those cold calls.
I believe that everyone has a calling and you can find a job that you can be happy with. You don't need to "grow up", you just need to discover what it is that you really want to do.
There are several career "tests" available online that can give you ideas on what you may like to pursue.
2006-10-29 23:12:26 · answer #3 · answered by sunshineandsilliness 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Life is too short to be spending it doing something you do not enjoy doing. What you need to do is both grow up and get a new job. Sure, right now this may be the only thing you may think you know how to do, but if later in life you find what like, it will be worth learning to do it and eventually you will get used to your new job. You have already spent too many years suffering, and you are still young enough so that you are able to change your career, so don't worry. But if it is what your next job will be that is freaking you out, then you should take one of those career test that show you what you would most likely be interested in. Well good luck =).
2006-10-29 23:17:48 · answer #4 · answered by Jessica Monique! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I too am 26 and for the last 10 years hmmmm well, i was a Union boilermaker, had 4 construction jobs for private companies, worked in 6 corp or privately owned restaurants, 2 short sales jobs, and an assortment of other crazy side jobs. Oh and managed to pay my way in college for 2 years and get convicted for a felony. Man, putting it like that just freaked me out.....My job history sucks im a felon and i can still talk my way into a decent job and sort of like you I hate every single day almost. Nothing holds my interest and havent encountered anything at any job I've ever had. I know i can't punch a clock, I hate middle management, And I love business. So my plan is to save every nickle and start my own biz, dont know in what yet but i will figure it out. As far as im concerned my only goal is to never work for anyone ever again. Hope you find your way.
2006-10-29 23:25:45 · answer #5 · answered by feargov 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could stay in sales if you believe in your product. Find a passion, then a company that produces what you think is really valuable and see if you can sell that.
You could consider expanding your educaitonal background while you work - see what other fields might interest you.
Try consultive selling - it's based more on knowledge of a product. Try things that make lives better for people, fitness equipment, equipment for disabled people, toys for children, maybe it's just the product that stymies you.
I used to do sales and loved it, but I find that most companies just keep you on a hamster treadmill of sorts and find ways to reduce pay and benefits. I'm going into health care now with a high hourly rate and where I'm in more control of my day on a one-to-one basis.
Just check out other careers areas and continue to expand your options - best of both worlds.
2006-10-30 01:13:10 · answer #6 · answered by Lake Lover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's OK! You have a right to enjoy your work, you will spend one-third of your time at your job and you should do something you enjoy. Try to figure out what you want to do (career wise) and see if you can start taking classes to retrain yourself.
I personally could never do sales. I use to do Real Estate, but people come to you, for the most part.
Maybe you could get tested to see where your abilities are. Whilst taking night classes, you could join the local labor union, it pays very well and has great benefits, it's also, what sounds like a much needed change of scene for you. You deserve to be happy, you shouldn't FORCE yourself to get up and go to a job.
Good Luck!
2006-10-29 23:19:56 · answer #7 · answered by Mt ~^^~~^^~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ya I would say you need a new job. I can relate, I've been in the food business for 10 yrs as well and I am sick and tired of having to have my hair tied up at work, or smelling like food when I get home, ect. However I am going back to school and doing things I actually want to do now and I think that maybe that is what you need to do now. Good Luck!
2006-10-29 23:16:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
At 26 you should stop wasting your life in a Dead End Job. Your job says: Bring me a dollar and I will give you a nickel. No one needs that. Find a community college and go to night school until you connect with something that grabs your interest and pays well.
I am lucky, I have always loved my jobs and I changed whenever a better and higher paying one came along.
If you can sell, you can do anything. I know what you mean exactly. You have outgrown your job. That is what happened to you and your inner self is telling you that there is something better down the road and it is time to go for it.
Jaread
2006-10-29 23:11:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It takes a certain personality type to be in sales.
You would have to be without a soul, to enjoy THAT job.
Salesmen are a different breed of animal than the rest of us.
I would suggest curb stomping that job and find something a little less dreadful.
You have my sympathy. I did that for awhile and I was so tense and upset all the time, it made me sick. Really.
Yeah. Dump the sales job. ANYTHING else would be more appealing.
Good luck.
2006-10-29 23:12:09 · answer #10 · answered by Molly 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋