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      12-08-2020, 08:16 PM   #67
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I am an electrical engineer until friday, but on monday I finally start in sales.

Man oh man does it feel good!

I got my engineering degree to get out of engineering, kind of backwards thinking but I always believed *for myself* that knowledge gained in engineering can come in handy for sales or managing.

Another step closer to paying off my house early!

If any engineers want out if engineering and don't know how, feel free to hit me up!
I'm curious what type of sales you're going into. A good friend is an electrical engineer (I think more automation driven the last few years) who has been in management for a few years. He is thinking about throwing the towel in for sales. The sales is based around what he has done for the last several years. It's interesting that I've heard this twice within a week.
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Switching to sales here myself too. Engineering / PM background. Won't be selling any of the stuff I worked on so it'll be a learning curve. Also not even sure where to start - it was recommended I go sales associate to get the lay of the land then apply for systems engineer / sales engineer after about 6 months.
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Damn good job. I did it in Nürnberg, Germany for a while. Tough job, always hustling, can't make mistakes. Mucho respect for those who excel at it. Even today, 30 years later, I still appreciate the effort it takes for UPS and Fedex folks to get packages to my doorstep. Definitely essential workers, IMHO.
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Im currently a housewife. I used to work sales, did some time in a call center making over 75k just as a sales rep. Took home an award for top sales country wide for two months.
Those were good days, until I caught management making changes that directly impacted everyone's pay (and mine was down about $15,500, yet I had done just as much if not more work that year). Learning from my spouse who has owned his own business, there's alot more freedoms involved than being someone's lackey.
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Damn good job. I did it in Nürnberg, Germany for a while. Tough job, always hustling, can't make mistakes. Mucho respect for those who excel at it. Even today, 30 years later, I still appreciate the effort it takes for UPS and Fedex folks to get packages to my doorstep. Definitely essential workers, IMHO.
Been with ups for 15yrs now. It is definitely a interesting job, the relationships you make with your customers become like family. The pay, benefits, pensions etc are great and the family is very well taken care of so not much to complain. I am just glad I work in a smaller city so our Union and management have a decent relationship. It makes it a lot easier and less stressful when you know management is not out to get you ever day lol
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Switching to sales here myself too. Engineering / PM background. Won't be selling any of the stuff I worked on so it'll be a learning curve. Also not even sure where to start - it was recommended I go sales associate to get the lay of the land then apply for systems engineer / sales engineer after about 6 months.


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1) Learn how to relate to their pain
2) Sell the solution to their problem, not YOUR product
3) Don't be afraid to LEAD them
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I am an electrical engineer until friday, but on monday I finally start in sales.

Man oh man does it feel good!

I got my engineering degree to get out of engineering, kind of backwards thinking but I always believed *for myself* that knowledge gained in engineering can come in handy for sales or managing.

Another step closer to paying off my house early!

If any engineers want out if engineering and don't know how, feel free to hit me up!
I'm curious what type of sales you're going into. A good friend is an electrical engineer (I think more automation driven the last few years) who has been in management for a few years. He is thinking about throwing the towel in for sales. The sales is based around what he has done for the last several years. It's interesting that I've heard this twice within a week.
So the type of sales I am going to is to be the hub between program managers and sales account managers. Dealing with the front end of business with both external and internal customers.

With this role I can springboard onto being a PM or sales acct manager because I will have experience in both areas.

What got me into the role was all of the extra reading to gain system and product knowledge. I had the engineering mentality but not how the equipment was used. Thats where those nights of reading papers came in handy. And also having conversations with other sales people and systems engineers.

The talks with my managers and HR about my intentions for leaving engineering were interesting this past year.
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I need a job that pays what I make now but half of the headache and not having to answer company phone 7 days a week.
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I need a job that pays what I make now but half of the headache and not having to answer company phone 7 days a week.
I got that exact job when I retired.
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Propulsion engineer / Project manager / Program manager. Love what I do, so much so that my fiance often has to tell (command) me to work less haha.
That's sort of the way of it when you have a job that you love, innit?

My wife tells me I'm a workaholic and has done the same thing (i.e. ordered me to take time off) on more than one occasion.
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