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Word through the grape vine is that those who are good at sales can make at or near 100,000 in their first year alone. Yet, if that's the case why aren't more people lining up to take these positions. Is medical equipment sales really all it's cracked up to be as a long-term career?
The sales sub on reddit is all about how good technical sales is—- whether it’s medical equipment or software. It’s hard to know what’s true and what is BS though. I will say they make plenty of mention of how stressful the career is though.
On a similar note I’ve been intrigued by sales for years now but have never made the jump. I work in software engineering and do well, but it is interesting to see how other professions are doing. I know there are a lot of people who do sales as a profession— frankly I was never aware of this until 10 years ago or so. My dad was a math teacher and math was installed in me at a young age. He would always look at sales people like the used car salesmen stereotype.
On a similar note I’ve been intrigued by sales for years now but have never made the jump. I work in software engineering and do well, but it is interesting to see how other professions are doing. I know there are a lot of people who do sales as a profession— frankly I was never aware of this until 10 years ago or so. My dad was a math teacher and math was installed in me at a young age. He would always look at sales people like the used car salesmen stereotype.
Look at spots as a solutions architect... it's "salesy" in that you carry a number and have to do things like entertain customers, present, etc. But it's still a technical role, and you can easily position yourself as a trusted advisor instead of a used-car salesman.
Word through the grape vine is that those who are good at sales can make at or near 100,000 in their first year alone. Yet, if that's the case why aren't more people lining up to take these positions. Is medical equipment sales really all it's cracked up to be as a long-term career?
I worked in that field for about 20 years, or close to it. I was more on the research lab side but sometimes would sell into clinics, hospitals, etc. Depending on the type of product, your territory potential and how you work it, six figures is not a problem at all. It was rather typical in fact. Getting into mid six figures was rare, usually because of large, once-in-a-lifetime orders; anything above that was exceedingly rare and more of a fluke.
Leverage what you know. If you worked in molecular biology labs, look for companies selling sequencers, etc. My work in the lab was in light and electron microscopy and some immunocytochemistry. At various times I sold products related to all of those fields.
Word through the grape vine is that those who are good at sales can make at or near 100,000 in their first year alone. Yet, if that's the case why aren't more people lining up to take these positions. Is medical equipment sales really all it's cracked up to be as a long-term career?
If you are good you can earn that type of income, but it isn't likely going to be sustained year after year. A lot has to do with what is in your territory. Rural areas will make it nearly impossible to earn that level of income.
Even though $100k sounds like a lot of money, it isn't.
It was great for me in the 80s and 90s then the business tanked because all of the profitable dealers were being bought up by the mega million dollar companies and wholesalers who wont give salesmen the time a of day
Word through the grape vine is that those who are good at sales can make at or near 100,000 in their first year alone. Yet, if that's the case why aren't more people lining up to take these positions. Is medical equipment sales really all it's cracked up to be as a long-term career?
Someone who went to school with our daughter she keeps in touch with
He is in early 40s—has science degree from TX A&M College Station—more prestigious than a satellite—
Out of college he got job with company doing remediation for gas/chemical spills at DFW airport—where we live
That was not great—he had friend working in medical sales in-house who got him job in that company—
Has been in medical equipment sales for past 14 yrs or so—changed companies at least once—
now working for Stryker I think
He can work from home when he is not traveling—but he travels a good bit
There is lot of stress to make quota and raise it
Lot of stress but yes I do think he makes good money—
He is good at his job—personable/charismatic type of personality so he has that bent naturally—
but still demanding
And from post that I read somewhere—there is certain degree of market saturation in some of these jobs because if you are good and have filled orders with so many of the possible targets in your area you have to move to new ground—so you have to transfer periodically whether you want to or not
I don’t know about that aspect except this guy did go to FL to take a promotion and then went back to DFW area because his wife wanted to be closer to family
When he was in FL his company decided he was living in area that was outside his service zone—meaning he had to use an airport that wasn’t the best for his travel—more travel costs to the company
They didn’t want to relocate in FL so either took job with new company in DFW or internal transfer
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