I have a major in marketing. Where should I go from here? sales or marketing-related jobs?

Question

I have a four year degree and have worked for about 6 months with a Taiwanese company, promoting/marketing Taiwanes manufactures to the US. It looks great on my resume (especially some of the things I have done here), however the pay is pretty crappy. I would like to know, preferably from people with marketing degrees or that know about it, some advice. Like, should I follow a career in sales, or in more of themarketing aspect? which has more room for growth, potential, etc. just overall advice please

Answer 1

Both career paths can be great and can be very rewarding, and lucrative. I tend to believe that sales careers can end up making more money faster, but if you pay your dues and work your way through a marketing career, and if you are good, you can make tons that way too. I would tend, perhaps, to focus less on which career makes more money since they are both good, and instead focus on what you like better and what you are better at. Sales is sales. There are all sorts of sales but at the end of the day, if you can sell you can sell, and if you can't you can't. Marketing is much broader. If you either aren't a great sales person, or don't just absolutely thrive in selling, or if you like to do a little of this and a little of that, the cool thing about marketing is it involves SO much. There is tons of sales (often internal), statistics, research, packaging, advertising, intellectual property, media relations... marketing allows you to be a lot more creative.