Users in this career have rated it a 2.1 in terms of their own personal satisfaction with the career. This figure represents an average taken from the responses of 883 MyPlan.com users during registration.
Users were asked to rate their happiness in their current occupation as being either "Very Happy" (4), "Happy" (3), "Mixed / Neutral" (2), "Not Happy" (1), or "Miserable" (0).
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Sales is a tricky career with many ups and downs. Sometimes the pros are the good years where commissions are strong and your are getting paid on your work effort. Other years work effort might have to be more and you get less commissions. The biggest issue with this career is it is not recession proof, if I could do it all over again I would be an educator.
I started my working career as a product development chemist, shifted to technical service and then to Market Development of an industrial product and in the final-prolonged- phase , worked as a Marketeer of a bunch of industrial products ,in the sector of Petrochemicals.
I will certainly advice people to consider pursuing a career in the last phase of my journey.Industrial products are quite different from consumer products,just as Marketing is from sales.There is scope here to apply your innovative ability and help sell the products on pure cost/advantage basis.The job can be enjoyable and I guess, rewarding.
I feel sure that people have a good idea of industrial products. A lot of technology goes into their making and selling them to users, who add value to it and reach them to a consumer is a challenging and interesting job. One should have a lot of perseverance; a 'fly by night' attitude won't do in this career.
To be exact, I am in Customer Service. If you are an outgoing, pleasant and team oriented person, it will suit you. However, the job nature is rather passive where you are serving either internal or external customers. You got to have excellent communication skills. This career is more suitable for female rather than male because you do need good attention to details.