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Since sales pays so well, won't those "golden handcuffs" make it that much harder to quit your job to do a startup?
by jleader 16y ago
Since sales pays so well, won't those "golden handcuffs" make it that much harder to quit your job to do a startup?
- codva 16y agoIt might. However, large companies have an uncanny ability to screw their sales force. If you do really well they will reward you with a higher quota, and they'll divide your territory in half. I've seen it happen way too many times. Plus tech sales tends to be unstable. One year you make $200K selling something that is in demand, the next year it's out of style and you get canned for missing quota. In 1998-2001 I was selling Sun servers. It was a pretty damn nice way to make a living. In 2002 you couldn't give a Sun server away. So the odds of somebody staying content in tech sales is fairly low. The desire or need to change usually hits ever few years.