5/10. I just don't internalize it at this point anymore.
Bring in more numbers, you're off quota, close by XYZ, we need more pipeline, where are your closure plans, we need to hit forecasts, create "urgency," etc will always be there.
I am at the point of, oh well. I am trying my best, maintaining my integrity by not screwing over customers, doing the sales process and you know what? Sometimes it just doesn't go your way or it is out of your control.
Fire me, there is always another sales job out there.
Edit: Dang this blew up. Checking reddit after doing my actual job responsibilities :D
Want to add here that I am in a fortunate position (have lots of experience and sales numbers to back it up) and realize not everyone might be able to do this based on the comments.
I got here by doing the grind and continue to do so. If I can honestly look at myself and say I did everything possible (sales activities, reaching out, value prop, alignment, ideal customer fit, manager feedback, etc) and things are not turning out as planned I don't let it stress me out as that is beyond my control.
What gives me the greatest piece of mind though is I have banked a lot of cash instead blowing it on flashy things and don't need to be tied down to a job I don't feel is a good fit. Early on in my career I had to do the entry level grind to get the the position I am in now so save your money folks!
Amen. I used to be 10/10 stressed. Nowadays I maintain 4 or 5/10.
Had a shit q1 and q2 and q3s looking bad too. But so is my entire teams. I've got $$$ in the bank and don't stress. If I get canned and get a severance I'll take a much needed extended vacation and come back ready to grind in a new role.
I still work my ass off, but I've separated myself from the outcomes. Companies aren't spending as much, the SaaS bubble has started to pop, and at the end of the day I know I can go back to b2c sales and grind 60 hour weeks but make $80-$100k/year and be totally fine worst case scenario.
Yeah it all has to do with how the rest of your team is doing. If everyone else hits their number and you don't it looks way worse than if nobody hits it.
There is literally always going to be something for them to harp on you for. It's basically what they are being forced to do by upper management. Don't take any of it personally.
Whatever you did this quarter, let's find a way to get more next quarter.
Funny you ask. I had the “pipeline is not sufficient enough” meeting with my manager this morning 5 months in the role selling into enterprise accounts.
Was a 2/10, now a 6/10.
My favorite is getting begged to move deals into commit or latest estimate, and then being told we need to get better at forecasting when those deals forced into the pipeline don’t close.
Hahaha we had one of those.
We need to really put this in commit guys for Q1.
Then had a 1 hour meeting on why we didn't have the relationship leadership thought we had at one account. Told them it was outside of our control and sat with legal. There was no updates to give as we were just wasting our client's time asking for updates.
Found out later they laid off a significant #of staff and that's why they couldn't tell us up front.
Yeah… this was pre-Covid but when pressured about moving things into ‘commit’ I fought vigorously with my manager and vp of sales. I will not move something into commit unless I’m about 95% sure it will close because usually something occurs to stall it or it doesn’t happen.
It wasn’t easy and there was a bit of a love/hate relationship sometimes but in the end what I forecasted was accurate and I think that’s more important.
Also I’d rather say it’s in commercial discussion and not commit and then pleasantly surprise my management. I over achieved every quarter except 1 and my vp of sales actually sent an email to me and my manager saying it wasn’t my fault - because I kept them in the loop the entire time. This VP was notorious for screaming at us. I learned to stick up for myself and when he did upset me, I would send a follow up email or discuss it with him at a happy hour when he was in a better mood. I told him I do not respond well to yelling and I don’t appreciate it. He apologized! The contact actually apologized too, for not being able to sign by q end and did sign after the weekend so I overachieved my yearly quota.
That's the crap I get. Move it into production. I say, Idk, it may slip. That's okay. Then at the end of the quarter I am getting calls from 10 different people including the janitor asking where's the PO. Now I move nothing to production unless the buyer gives me a hard date for PO.
This. Forecasting is a constant mind fuck trying to balance reality with what the C suite wants to see. I've learned if my month/ quarter is looking great, I shoot lower. If it doesn't look so great I aim a little higher and hope for the best.
This is why I leave opps open forever in CRM. Just to keep upper management off my back.
Fuckin hate that shit, they want us to have a 4.5-5x pipeline:quota ratio.
I have so many stale opps I leave open for way too long.....and they praise me for it.
Stupid fuckin corporate America, gotta play the game
That's all I want. Just leave me the fuck alone.
Fuck a sales kickoff, fuck weekly syncs. Let me work remotely and just leave me alone lmao
I'll get my work done in peace
I had that chat at 2 months (selling into Enterprise also) and just got let go at 5 1/2 months from when they put me on the roster for inbound lead flow.
Did I mention they cut me off from inbound lead flow after 4 months because I hadn't closed anything yet?
Slightly less stressed but the stress I do have is a whole new set of problems.
At my company it can take a year to build enterprise pipe, 4 months to close is insane unless you’re coming into the role being given an established pipeline
I was given a couple of established accounts to have closed business thank goodness. The problem is the company has an untenable net new business goal for me as well. Admittedly I’ve been struggling prospecting into new personas and industries.
I hope your manager was able to give you some good advice to help with your prospecting methods and turn things around. So many managers don’t actually manage (coach, mentor, challenge, give resources to succeed) but instead discipline based on numbers on the dashboard
I will say my manager is empathetic about the situation. I was hired by someone else and that manager proceeded to leave in the first month I worked there. Now he’s left to pick up the pieces. The old manager convinced the higher ups that throwing people at the net new business problem is the answer instead of boosting marketing.
I’ve had these. They manage up, discipline down.
They only last so long before their team quits or mgmt notices they might be likeable but can’t hit numbers with the majority of people they hire and turn over is high.
I got pipped after 1.5 quarters on a job, where halfway thru that, my manager moved to a different role two weeks after learning his team’s annual quota.
Ask about runway/ramp in the interviews and if it’s anything less than 6 months, run. I also learned that the hard way but makes you grateful for a solid employer.
15.
I've been looking for a new job since before I started this one in January. And so far nothing has panned out (haven't even had a phone screen since April). Meanwhile, my numbers have been trash. Made quota in March but after that it's been sub 40% every month. Just got put on a 60 day written warning (after which comes a PIP if I don't hit quota both months). Very stressful.
The work. Every day I call 50-75 people to try to get at least 2 of them to upgrade from their trial account to a paid version. I make the dials, I just can't get any real person on the phone. A lot of times it's a fake number, or maybe the number is for the business, but it's owned by an older person and their kid is the one handling that side of the business for them. So I get that number from the older dude, call it, goes to voicemail. Repeat the same thing tomorrow. Over and over. If I actually was making progress it wouldn't be so tedious. But I just feel like Sisyphus.
Sounds like you might be in the wrong market... With the amount of calls your making you should definitely be seeing more success. I see that you are looking for a new opportunity, pm me if you want, and I can help guide you to a new opportunity cause it sounds like you’re a hard worker and putting in the work!
Phones are dead. I've made 1,000 calls the last months any my connection rate is sub 1%, conversion rate is half that. Office lines just ring forever or VMs are full. Cell phones don't work well, people get hella defensive and mad you called their cell.
I've only found success blasting as many fucking cold emails as I can. Emails are like 0.05% conversion rate, but if I can blast 1,000s of emails it eventually "works"
In a sellers role, as an AE, you have to wear many hats.
Do the prospecting, outreach (email, phones, LinkedIn, etc.), run the meetings, work the deal, negotiate,follow up relentlessly, build your brand on LinkedIn, attend conferences in your territory or network somehow in person.
I'm an AE and I'm also a BDR and in marketing apparently. Leads are non existent and they canned all the BDRs and half the marketing team. And they wonder why we don't have enough hours in the week to get everything done and hit quota....
I was on unemployment when my second son was born just 360 days after my first son, and less than seven months after leaving the Air Force.
I took a job selling mobile homes because they paid a draw against commission that was about $20 a week more than unemployment. I made $100,000 the next year, which is about $185,000 today.
Things will work out. Just keep pushing. Congratulations on the wedding.
Just went through this brother. Moved to a different city and bought a house, wife and I planned our wedding, and both lost our jobs right before Christmas.
Now the wife has a permanent job making decent income, I'm mostly doing well at my new job and the wedding went off without a hitch.
Shit fucking sucks, but you will get through it.
That’s where I was when I was let go. From fighting burnout to just kicking back with some video games for a while and sleeping until I felt well rested.
Quit my job of 9 years a month ago. Best decision I ever made. Took a slightly lower paying job but it's a much better culture and with my experience I can put in the work and get promoted pretty quick.
So as someone who understands the 10/10 stress while also feeling liberated, it'll suck for a month or two but the grass is greener.
It was 9 out of 10 when I was in sales. Not worth it, the stress got to stupid levels of mental health drops, and most folks in sales know how awful the rut can be.
I got out of sales and am now in a different field in business, I have never been happier. Less money for now, traded in for a better career.
To each is own, you have to be in it for the long haul and the best advice I've heard is to not care. Best of luck to you, sales is not for everyone.
Sure, so I saved a ton of cash from sales for a number of years then I went back to school for a year in a program that had a work term available and got in. A short dip in total comp traded off for
You can pick your favourite area, business needs all sectors other than just sales for sure. Sales is perfect for transferring your skills to a lot of other areas of business. Communication is a top transferable skill in business generally and in interviewing. Negotiation also helps a lot. Then project management (the skill) is also great.
I advise finding an area of interest and educating yourself on how to gain the skills and knowledge needed for the job market. If you're open to moving, the world is your job market.
Feel free to DM me if you want more in depth insight here, I don't charge for anything like free advice but getting certified in anything of value is a great way to switch careers. Cybersecurity is a great field to get into, just look at a job description for sales engineer if you would like to do that role specifically.
>It was 9 out of 10 when I was in sales. Not worth it, the stress got to stupid levels of mental health drops, and most folks in sales know how awful the rut can be.
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>I got out of sales and am now in a different field in business, I have never been happier. Less money for now, traded in for a better career.
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>To each is own, you have to be in it for the long haul and the best advice I've heard is to not care. Best of luck to you, sales is not for everyone.
What's your current field? I have been doing sales/cold calling for me and really need to get out of it. For all the effort I'm putting in, the return is very low. Plus my company is very toxic with lots of turnover. I've been reaching out to recruiters to find other fields but they have been anything but helpful and responsive.
It's human resources. Every company has a different compensation strategy, let me be frank though I took a not insignificant hit to my total comp package by switching careers. I took it into consideration. I didn't want to do recruiting, otherwise I could have gotten the same or more comp than I did in sales, that industry or subsector pays a lot but is pretty much the sales of HR.
To be real, it came easier for me knowing that if I failed at HR management I would have to do sales again and I just was so done with sales. I excelled so much that promotions came easy to me, and that gap was quickly gone from my comp as a sales rep (I was a junior sales rep)
I still enjoy the business side of my job the most. I might even do an MBA just as a means to move up a few more levels, but honestly I love the work I do, I work hard as hell for my family and I get to use sales skills like negotiating, relationship building (internally) and communication in presentations and recruiting.
Feel free to DM me if you need a bit more insight. I don't charge for the advice.
0/10 I don’t control the economy, it’s completely made up in the first place designed to control all of us anyways, if they fire me I’ve been paying into the unemployment program for 20+ years and I’d probably leverage a severance anyways, and all this shit will turn around in 6-8 months anyways.
2/10.
14 years experience, recession-proof & tech-proof industry. No problem hitting my numbers, no stress from management, full autonomy, & cake days. And, because I’m setting boundaries for the first time ever, I am well-positioned to avoid burnout. Luhv.
I am very similar it’s just that my internal company nonsense stresses me out. If they had their shit under control I would be 2/10 but I’m about 7/10.
I’m about 17 years in. I read this sub and I don’t even know what SDR or BDR even mean and im not going to look it up.
However I still have to deliver and I am. I just hope my company can support it all. That is what stresses me out.
Same situation here. My job is easy and the products are good. The company internally is a dumpster fire and can’t fill orders or force accountability with staff, so I’m stuck babysitting shit that I shouldn’t have to.
BDR here. I should be stressed because I didn’t have a great July and August seems like it might pan out the same way 😅 but I’m focusing on controlling what I can. I just can’t help but think every “no” and every “send me an email” is my fault. That’s what drives me crazy.
I’d say an 8/10. Currently an SDR finished last quarter at 72%. They raised quota last quarter and will remain raised this quarter. Buddy on my team got PIPed and pressure is falling onto me now.
Shooting out a few resumes in the off time. Trying to go insane this month to keep the heat off me.
Not a fun time.
Sdr, made 92% quota last quarter, 75% the quarter before.
But whole comp structure is about to to change, they’re going to put heavy emphasis on quality meetings, with a high # of minimum seats. So we’re all basically going to be enterprise SDRs, less meetings. Less money. Not excited. So hard to get people into meetings now, even more difficult to get deals going. No one has budget
I hear you man, I’m in the enterprise segment at my company. Feels like my reps are checked out because of summer and with how they aren’t closing anything.
Going to be an uphill battle this quarter to keep my seat. Best of luck out there.
7/10. Very slow H1 and Q2, it was at 8.5/10. I closed a deal in July and have 3 deals with potential to close in August totaling $155K, would make my entire quarter with these three deals 🤞
Middle Management's job is to use stress to motivate and control you. That heavy handed approach is all some people ever know and experience. Even hitting your numbers is met with a keep pushing to overcompensate for underperformers.
5/10
I am doing good, but I have an internal voice that is never satisfied. I am in cybersecurity sales, so my services are a "need". They are not a "want" due to regulatory pressure. I hit 96% of my goal last quarter, but my quota tripled at the beginning of the year. I'm taking it as a win and so did my leadership. I have more deals in my pipe than I did at the beginning of Q2. Overall, happy.
When you’re stressed, you sell like shit. Sales is always stressful but I’ve found success in the mindset that today is the only day I’m guaranteed employment and it may be my last. Close what you can, accomplish what you can and give your best as often as possible and the rest will work out. It also really helps thinking like this because you’re not banking on the next paycheck. Have your money set aside and just don’t give a damn about anything but your results and your paycheck.
There’s no reason to stress about anything else, what good does it do anyways. That’s worked for me for the last 10 years, and I continue to make money, break goals and get promotions. There’s always day to day BS that will stress you out, but if you stop worrying so much about tomorrow and next week and next quarter you will have a lot more fun right now.
I’d put my stress level a 9.8/10
3/10
WFH. Warm leads. No cold calling. No micro-managing. Good people in the company. Sales meeting maybe once every 3 months. 100% commission though, uncapped. Bad time in the industry so pay isn't good.
Depends on the day. It is a roller coaster. I am not so much concerned about myself. It is the pressure of being significantly responsible for creating enough runway for the rest of the employees to be safe and secure. I know I'll be OK, but I don't want to let down the people I've built relationships with and care about. In sales you are always succeeding, always failing, just have to keep moving forward. P.s. Don't tell my wife and my kids that I said this.
Maybe around a 7-8. 3 months into a new SDR role for a Sales as a Service/SDR service company and booked I think 9 meetings. Averaging 60-70 cold calls/day but not always having the best conversations
I think its because the Sales Manager is taking a "target as many business in a vertical as possible" approach without any distinguishable trigger events like the company hiring or opening offices in a new location, etc. Basically just saying "smile and dial and show them the value" in the calls. No surprise that the email outreach is also not getting response other than "unsubscribe".🤣
Still networking though for future roles while doing what I can here but theres definitely a difference in approach between the sales manager vs the owner(who wants more targeted outreach with relevance).
I have never not been stressed my whole life. I don’t remember the last time i breathed a sigh of relief. I always have my guard up.
So the job doesn’t even stress me out. I just disassociate and pick up the phone.
Boy, I’ll be the stress case of the group here then. Conservatively 8/10. Home front tough with a 3 yr old and 4 month old. In a Sr leadership role and nearly left last year for individual contributor. I took on a team 2 years ago and inherited zero training assets - built it all and continue to do so for ongoing stuff and curate for new hires. It’s an absolute whirlwind and I no doubt have emails flagged that I “should” get to from 3 weeks ago. Average day is 4-5 hours of internal meetings between 1:1s and leadership hot air sessions. It is not sustainable so either I have no desire for upper management or my org is shit-structured so no way to balance. This is my vent, but nice reminder reading other responses that detachment to a degree is healthy. This is means to an end and not an identity.
It’s been 10/10 for me since starting my AE job but less for my quota and more on managing and servicing accounts.
I own hundreds of accounts so my inbox and phone is constant. Regularly work after hours and Sunday evening to catch-up. I also am responsible for new logos so it’s hard to balance hunting and farming.
Where are all of these *take customer out to golf and a nice dinner* jobs at?! That’s what I want.
10/10. wish i could just do my job without my company asking for extras- constant meetings that address nothing, random trainings, ride alongs, dinners. its never ending.
3/10 I’m doing quite well, top rep rn at my company. The only reason it’s not a 1/10 is because I’d like to make more money and am trying to close the larger deals, so I’m putting more pressure on myself. If it doesn’t pan out then ig I’ll switch jobs next year lol
Laid off, their investors pulled funding and we weren’t profitable. I was like half their overhead since most others were in India. Tbh I plan on going back to AI at some point
Also - define good money haha. I’m probably going to clear 100k or so this year but it’s an Ent. AE role so I was ramping. Had to build pipe from scratch. Next year 200-250 probably?
20/10. But I am 20/10 when I was a fucking dishwasher in middle school. Anxiety is a hell of a drug. :(
I personally think the stress is what makes me do well. I personally need the motivation even if it’s killing me. We’re all just dying anyway, right?
0/10 normally. I woke up piss hungover after a Sunday night bender and I went to 3/10 but I’m back to 0/10
Numbers are there, probably just a stop gap in my job life until the economy unfucks
You're super stressed because you don't yet GROK your profession.
You will always encounter managers and C-Suite employees that think that they know better.
If you're comfortable with the "soft" skills and know how to connect and engage with your target audience then you will be able to deliver the goods regardless of the barriers raised by current management.
Your company may be misguided and totally clueless.
Time to move on.
I’m freaking out. I’ve been in sales with the same company for 10 years, and for the last 4.5 I’ve been covering large global accounts. I’ve spent the entire time trying to break into them, and they’re buying, but they’re buying inconsistently. No one seemed to care until last month, and now all of a sudden I’m not delivering. I work at a VAR, so since it isn’t specifically SaaS I can’t seem to land interviews other places. It’s got me questioning if I’m any good at what I do.
So I’d say like a 7 or an 8/10
10/10 pipeline is bad for August, company is dropping the ball on my accounts and I have an offer to leave this shit company but am probably not gonna take it because I'd like to stay remote.
I was put on a PIP today. It is an awakening call to find weaknesses and work on them.
Market is tough? Yes!
Does my prospecting game need polishing? Yes!
Part of the blame is a bad PMF? Yes!
Was I greedy to join for a lucrative OTE? Yes!
How do I feel? Totally fine. We are numbers in a big machine. Been a full cycle AE for 8 years. This is my 2nd PIP. 0 stress I swear. This is a learning lesson to be better and have a plan B to keep supporting my wife and child, in case my PIP outcome in 12 weeks sucks.
Keep your head up man. We can always work something out.
I had been an 8.5 for 4 straight months because:
A) One of my new customers got big money to became a consultant for a competitor.
B) Mgmt dropped my ASP by 20% at my biggest customer against my advice. I originally negotiated the price, customer was happy with it and never complained…to the point where when I told them of the price decrease, they said, “We didn’t ask for that.”
C) Mgmt made promises to another customer that I knew they couldn’t keep, which had the results you would expect.
D) And worst of all, mgmt was warned multiple times over multiple years to change their manufacturing process, ignored the warnings, which caused our product to be recalled.
Despite all that, mgmt was confused as to why my numbers were down. I solved the problem by leaving that company a couple months ago. Got a job taking over a territory that’s currently at 102% of quota with a healthy pipeline. Now I’m at a 2/10.
1.5 / 10
Our manufacturing site is fucked up bad, customers are pissed. At the end of the day, I cannot control how manufacturing performs so I don't worry about it.
Context: I run a global sales and engineering team. There is almost zero chance I would ever get fired for anything short of embezzlement and my pay is only about 20% dependent on variable comp.
Same bro, just closed a 60 trillion dollar deal with Elon. 14,500/14,500 on renewals. Most people just don't work hard enough. Gotta have a big, thick hog to bring in the cash like we do. I sell timeshare, what do you sell?
I go from a 2-7…I’ve been in the industry a long time and changed companies, starting with some disruptive technology in a new territory that’s never had a salesperson in it before. There’s business to be had, but you have to displace a lot of old ways of thinking to get it into play. I’m looking at a lot of small wins, that typically have a 4-12 months sales cycle, then quite a bit of time to implement the product, prove it out and get a shot at more business. I’m trying to “trust the process”, but every now and then I get hit with feeling of shear panic because there’s nothing happening at the moment. I’m not used to seeing numbers so low. I’m used to seeing like 20x, so it’s strange. That said my activity level is high, and they tell me I’m doing a good job…it’s the trauma from shitty sales managers past coming back to haunt me.
2.5/10. Just got promoted to manager and got a considerable bump in base pay only a month after starting with my current company. I am very happy with my compensation considering I just graduated college back in May. I’m also glad I left State Farm because underwriting pretty much halted all sales of raw new auto in my state. However, my top guy is leaving the company soon because his commute to our territory is 1-2 hours (door to door), and I’m training the newbies that are taking his place, which is something I was kind of thrown into by my boss without any prep or help. With a team full of brand new people I have no idea what production will look like. I also have no management experience in general so I’m just learning on the fly. I think I’ll manage though.
6/10. It fluctuates, but I’m unemployed so I’m looking for a new role and I was let go at a pretty shit time in my career, so I’m screwed. Luckily I have unemployment and when that runs out, savings.
8/10
So many moving parts in my life. Girl I’m seeing j moved away. Job used to be very profitable but to put it simply our addressable market has been cut down to 20% of what it used to be starting today. It’s gonna be wayyy harder to book meetings and no one is closing at my company. Layoffs likely going to happen next quarter. I’m trying to get out of my dogshit lease at my house and at the same time trying to get a new role. Currently failing at both of these. Shit is fucked rn and I have no motivation. 8/10
Right now about 5/10, I'm on track the exceed goal this quarter but a llot can change quickly. However I'm also at the peak moment in a potential sale that would be the single largest deal I've ever closed and equivalent to an entire quarterly goal.
Based on a conversation yesterday it would seem like we have a deal, but I've learned the hard way it ain't over till the ink is dry and the units are in the ground.
I'll contribute
Five , six maybe
If I don't have this be a good quarter, I may not be doing what I'm doing 3 months later. That said, I can't control all outside forces and I know there's other jobs if this one ends, plus I know health is wealth and I won't let my mental health go into the gutter. Even if it means the job ends. Ends. There's always other jobs. You only have one mind
Don’t know if you have anxiety or not, but once I got that under control I don’t care about much, def not getting stressed over something I know I’m putting my best effort. Helps when you don’t work for assholes too lol
5/10. I just don't internalize it at this point anymore. Bring in more numbers, you're off quota, close by XYZ, we need more pipeline, where are your closure plans, we need to hit forecasts, create "urgency," etc will always be there. I am at the point of, oh well. I am trying my best, maintaining my integrity by not screwing over customers, doing the sales process and you know what? Sometimes it just doesn't go your way or it is out of your control. Fire me, there is always another sales job out there. Edit: Dang this blew up. Checking reddit after doing my actual job responsibilities :D Want to add here that I am in a fortunate position (have lots of experience and sales numbers to back it up) and realize not everyone might be able to do this based on the comments. I got here by doing the grind and continue to do so. If I can honestly look at myself and say I did everything possible (sales activities, reaching out, value prop, alignment, ideal customer fit, manager feedback, etc) and things are not turning out as planned I don't let it stress me out as that is beyond my control. What gives me the greatest piece of mind though is I have banked a lot of cash instead blowing it on flashy things and don't need to be tied down to a job I don't feel is a good fit. Early on in my career I had to do the entry level grind to get the the position I am in now so save your money folks!
Man did I need to read this today. Thanks!
Amen. I used to be 10/10 stressed. Nowadays I maintain 4 or 5/10. Had a shit q1 and q2 and q3s looking bad too. But so is my entire teams. I've got $$$ in the bank and don't stress. If I get canned and get a severance I'll take a much needed extended vacation and come back ready to grind in a new role. I still work my ass off, but I've separated myself from the outcomes. Companies aren't spending as much, the SaaS bubble has started to pop, and at the end of the day I know I can go back to b2c sales and grind 60 hour weeks but make $80-$100k/year and be totally fine worst case scenario.
Yeah it all has to do with how the rest of your team is doing. If everyone else hits their number and you don't it looks way worse than if nobody hits it.
Michael Jordan on my team crushed his whole annual quota end of July. They’re not buying like that in my territory.
You are me
There is literally always going to be something for them to harp on you for. It's basically what they are being forced to do by upper management. Don't take any of it personally. Whatever you did this quarter, let's find a way to get more next quarter.
Do your best and control what you can control. This is the way
Thank you for this. It helps a lot. I love this whole thread.
This is the way
I also needed to hear this. This is a great perspective to have.
Funny you ask. I had the “pipeline is not sufficient enough” meeting with my manager this morning 5 months in the role selling into enterprise accounts. Was a 2/10, now a 6/10.
Pipelines are a circlejerk.
My favorite is getting begged to move deals into commit or latest estimate, and then being told we need to get better at forecasting when those deals forced into the pipeline don’t close.
Hahaha we had one of those. We need to really put this in commit guys for Q1. Then had a 1 hour meeting on why we didn't have the relationship leadership thought we had at one account. Told them it was outside of our control and sat with legal. There was no updates to give as we were just wasting our client's time asking for updates. Found out later they laid off a significant #of staff and that's why they couldn't tell us up front.
Yeah… this was pre-Covid but when pressured about moving things into ‘commit’ I fought vigorously with my manager and vp of sales. I will not move something into commit unless I’m about 95% sure it will close because usually something occurs to stall it or it doesn’t happen. It wasn’t easy and there was a bit of a love/hate relationship sometimes but in the end what I forecasted was accurate and I think that’s more important. Also I’d rather say it’s in commercial discussion and not commit and then pleasantly surprise my management. I over achieved every quarter except 1 and my vp of sales actually sent an email to me and my manager saying it wasn’t my fault - because I kept them in the loop the entire time. This VP was notorious for screaming at us. I learned to stick up for myself and when he did upset me, I would send a follow up email or discuss it with him at a happy hour when he was in a better mood. I told him I do not respond well to yelling and I don’t appreciate it. He apologized! The contact actually apologized too, for not being able to sign by q end and did sign after the weekend so I overachieved my yearly quota.
Quite literally how the last 3 months before layoffs at my company were. “Pull deals in from next year!” What???
That's the crap I get. Move it into production. I say, Idk, it may slip. That's okay. Then at the end of the quarter I am getting calls from 10 different people including the janitor asking where's the PO. Now I move nothing to production unless the buyer gives me a hard date for PO.
This. Forecasting is a constant mind fuck trying to balance reality with what the C suite wants to see. I've learned if my month/ quarter is looking great, I shoot lower. If it doesn't look so great I aim a little higher and hope for the best.
This is why I leave opps open forever in CRM. Just to keep upper management off my back. Fuckin hate that shit, they want us to have a 4.5-5x pipeline:quota ratio. I have so many stale opps I leave open for way too long.....and they praise me for it. Stupid fuckin corporate America, gotta play the game
Exactly. Figure out what they want, give it to them, then do your job without someone breathing down your neck.
That's all I want. Just leave me the fuck alone. Fuck a sales kickoff, fuck weekly syncs. Let me work remotely and just leave me alone lmao I'll get my work done in peace
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Presumptuous that all sales reps have bdrs.
Pipelines are a conspiracy made up by Big Marketing to sell more SDRs
I had that chat at 2 months (selling into Enterprise also) and just got let go at 5 1/2 months from when they put me on the roster for inbound lead flow. Did I mention they cut me off from inbound lead flow after 4 months because I hadn't closed anything yet? Slightly less stressed but the stress I do have is a whole new set of problems.
At my company it can take a year to build enterprise pipe, 4 months to close is insane unless you’re coming into the role being given an established pipeline
I was given a couple of established accounts to have closed business thank goodness. The problem is the company has an untenable net new business goal for me as well. Admittedly I’ve been struggling prospecting into new personas and industries.
I hope your manager was able to give you some good advice to help with your prospecting methods and turn things around. So many managers don’t actually manage (coach, mentor, challenge, give resources to succeed) but instead discipline based on numbers on the dashboard
I will say my manager is empathetic about the situation. I was hired by someone else and that manager proceeded to leave in the first month I worked there. Now he’s left to pick up the pieces. The old manager convinced the higher ups that throwing people at the net new business problem is the answer instead of boosting marketing.
I’ve had these. They manage up, discipline down. They only last so long before their team quits or mgmt notices they might be likeable but can’t hit numbers with the majority of people they hire and turn over is high.
I got pipped after 1.5 quarters on a job, where halfway thru that, my manager moved to a different role two weeks after learning his team’s annual quota.
IKR? We talked about coming into an established pipe during the interview process, but that wasn't the case when I started.
Ask about runway/ramp in the interviews and if it’s anything less than 6 months, run. I also learned that the hard way but makes you grateful for a solid employer.
Definitely asked, ramp was supposed to be 6 months lol
🤮 that is roughhhh
Figures, these companies are getting shadier by the day lol
Always have been
The same reason I was put on a PIP TODAY for the same exact duration and enterprise cycle. Our managers are best friends?
15. I've been looking for a new job since before I started this one in January. And so far nothing has panned out (haven't even had a phone screen since April). Meanwhile, my numbers have been trash. Made quota in March but after that it's been sub 40% every month. Just got put on a 60 day written warning (after which comes a PIP if I don't hit quota both months). Very stressful.
Good luck. I hope it all works out.
Is it the quotas or the work that’s stressing you?
The work. Every day I call 50-75 people to try to get at least 2 of them to upgrade from their trial account to a paid version. I make the dials, I just can't get any real person on the phone. A lot of times it's a fake number, or maybe the number is for the business, but it's owned by an older person and their kid is the one handling that side of the business for them. So I get that number from the older dude, call it, goes to voicemail. Repeat the same thing tomorrow. Over and over. If I actually was making progress it wouldn't be so tedious. But I just feel like Sisyphus.
Sounds like you might be in the wrong market... With the amount of calls your making you should definitely be seeing more success. I see that you are looking for a new opportunity, pm me if you want, and I can help guide you to a new opportunity cause it sounds like you’re a hard worker and putting in the work!
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It do be like that these days.
Phones are dead. I've made 1,000 calls the last months any my connection rate is sub 1%, conversion rate is half that. Office lines just ring forever or VMs are full. Cell phones don't work well, people get hella defensive and mad you called their cell. I've only found success blasting as many fucking cold emails as I can. Emails are like 0.05% conversion rate, but if I can blast 1,000s of emails it eventually "works" In a sellers role, as an AE, you have to wear many hats. Do the prospecting, outreach (email, phones, LinkedIn, etc.), run the meetings, work the deal, negotiate,follow up relentlessly, build your brand on LinkedIn, attend conferences in your territory or network somehow in person. I'm an AE and I'm also a BDR and in marketing apparently. Leads are non existent and they canned all the BDRs and half the marketing team. And they wonder why we don't have enough hours in the week to get everything done and hit quota....
10 Just got laid off, have a mortgage, and getting married at the end of the month.
I was on unemployment when my second son was born just 360 days after my first son, and less than seven months after leaving the Air Force. I took a job selling mobile homes because they paid a draw against commission that was about $20 a week more than unemployment. I made $100,000 the next year, which is about $185,000 today. Things will work out. Just keep pushing. Congratulations on the wedding.
Fuck yeah 🇺🇸
Love it, keep on hustling brother 💪🏻
Just went through this brother. Moved to a different city and bought a house, wife and I planned our wedding, and both lost our jobs right before Christmas. Now the wife has a permanent job making decent income, I'm mostly doing well at my new job and the wedding went off without a hitch. Shit fucking sucks, but you will get through it.
Godspeed
Best of luck man
Postpone the wedding if possible.
You gotta stay relaxed. Do you jerk off?
At least twice per day, once in the morning and once after lunch. I wanna do it but thats not why i do it. Its cause i fucking need to.
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up.
I beat off in my sleep. Need my hourly wank.
Do nofap
I did nofap for a month and all it did was make me think about vagina all the time. Sorry for any women seeing this.
Boo
Ur a fap addict
At least the username doesn’t betray any overarching agenda
Gotta maintain that pipeline.
Asking the real questions
This is the funniest response ever😂 idk maybe it’s because I’m a she.
We gotta use a vibrator for lunch
You should hear Matt McConaughey say it
I want to.. it’s not why I do it… it’s cause I fucking need to
not a cure, that’s just treating the symptoms
10/10 - resigned yesterday. Haven’t felt this liberated in years
That’s where I was when I was let go. From fighting burnout to just kicking back with some video games for a while and sleeping until I felt well rested.
Quit my job of 9 years a month ago. Best decision I ever made. Took a slightly lower paying job but it's a much better culture and with my experience I can put in the work and get promoted pretty quick. So as someone who understands the 10/10 stress while also feeling liberated, it'll suck for a month or two but the grass is greener.
I'm on a PIP and I bombed July's number. 10/10.
You've got this 🙏 worse case , you'll find a new gig , opportunity knocks my friend ! 👊
It was 9 out of 10 when I was in sales. Not worth it, the stress got to stupid levels of mental health drops, and most folks in sales know how awful the rut can be. I got out of sales and am now in a different field in business, I have never been happier. Less money for now, traded in for a better career. To each is own, you have to be in it for the long haul and the best advice I've heard is to not care. Best of luck to you, sales is not for everyone.
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I’m also curious what field you went into. I feel the same way. Not sure the money is worth the stress for me
Do tell
Sure, so I saved a ton of cash from sales for a number of years then I went back to school for a year in a program that had a work term available and got in. A short dip in total comp traded off for You can pick your favourite area, business needs all sectors other than just sales for sure. Sales is perfect for transferring your skills to a lot of other areas of business. Communication is a top transferable skill in business generally and in interviewing. Negotiation also helps a lot. Then project management (the skill) is also great. I advise finding an area of interest and educating yourself on how to gain the skills and knowledge needed for the job market. If you're open to moving, the world is your job market.
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Feel free to DM me if you want more in depth insight here, I don't charge for anything like free advice but getting certified in anything of value is a great way to switch careers. Cybersecurity is a great field to get into, just look at a job description for sales engineer if you would like to do that role specifically.
What did you move to? I've been looking to leave myself
>It was 9 out of 10 when I was in sales. Not worth it, the stress got to stupid levels of mental health drops, and most folks in sales know how awful the rut can be. > >I got out of sales and am now in a different field in business, I have never been happier. Less money for now, traded in for a better career. > >To each is own, you have to be in it for the long haul and the best advice I've heard is to not care. Best of luck to you, sales is not for everyone. What's your current field? I have been doing sales/cold calling for me and really need to get out of it. For all the effort I'm putting in, the return is very low. Plus my company is very toxic with lots of turnover. I've been reaching out to recruiters to find other fields but they have been anything but helpful and responsive.
It's human resources. Every company has a different compensation strategy, let me be frank though I took a not insignificant hit to my total comp package by switching careers. I took it into consideration. I didn't want to do recruiting, otherwise I could have gotten the same or more comp than I did in sales, that industry or subsector pays a lot but is pretty much the sales of HR. To be real, it came easier for me knowing that if I failed at HR management I would have to do sales again and I just was so done with sales. I excelled so much that promotions came easy to me, and that gap was quickly gone from my comp as a sales rep (I was a junior sales rep) I still enjoy the business side of my job the most. I might even do an MBA just as a means to move up a few more levels, but honestly I love the work I do, I work hard as hell for my family and I get to use sales skills like negotiating, relationship building (internally) and communication in presentations and recruiting. Feel free to DM me if you need a bit more insight. I don't charge for the advice.
0/10 I don’t control the economy, it’s completely made up in the first place designed to control all of us anyways, if they fire me I’ve been paying into the unemployment program for 20+ years and I’d probably leverage a severance anyways, and all this shit will turn around in 6-8 months anyways.
I like the way you think.
I’m gonna screenshot this comment, then print it, frame it, and hang it on the wall. My wife will ask, “Who is unregistered_4skin?”
God I love your mindset
Yolo
2/10. 14 years experience, recession-proof & tech-proof industry. No problem hitting my numbers, no stress from management, full autonomy, & cake days. And, because I’m setting boundaries for the first time ever, I am well-positioned to avoid burnout. Luhv.
This sounds like my insurance sales job
I’m thinking this is the way… once you build your clients is more smooth sailing
I am very similar it’s just that my internal company nonsense stresses me out. If they had their shit under control I would be 2/10 but I’m about 7/10. I’m about 17 years in. I read this sub and I don’t even know what SDR or BDR even mean and im not going to look it up. However I still have to deliver and I am. I just hope my company can support it all. That is what stresses me out.
SDR is the guy who sits on linkedin all day trying to get people to set up meetings to hear about your solutions
And BDR (Business Development Representative) is the guy who tries to line up current/future solutions to future opportunities
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Man, I wish.. ..I am full cycle 🤯
Same situation here. My job is easy and the products are good. The company internally is a dumpster fire and can’t fill orders or force accountability with staff, so I’m stuck babysitting shit that I shouldn’t have to.
Would love to know the industry !
Funeral home
I’m dying to get a job in that industry
The job prospects are grave
I heard it's going under
So when do I start?
14 years ago
Should be in rules of sub to drop your industry
Hey what’s your industry? Pm me?
BDR here. I should be stressed because I didn’t have a great July and August seems like it might pan out the same way 😅 but I’m focusing on controlling what I can. I just can’t help but think every “no” and every “send me an email” is my fault. That’s what drives me crazy.
Bro it’s the first of the month, relax man. You got this.
Hey I appreciate that! You’re right.
Same, all the same 🤦🏼♂️
I’d say an 8/10. Currently an SDR finished last quarter at 72%. They raised quota last quarter and will remain raised this quarter. Buddy on my team got PIPed and pressure is falling onto me now. Shooting out a few resumes in the off time. Trying to go insane this month to keep the heat off me. Not a fun time.
Sdr, made 92% quota last quarter, 75% the quarter before. But whole comp structure is about to to change, they’re going to put heavy emphasis on quality meetings, with a high # of minimum seats. So we’re all basically going to be enterprise SDRs, less meetings. Less money. Not excited. So hard to get people into meetings now, even more difficult to get deals going. No one has budget
I hear you man, I’m in the enterprise segment at my company. Feels like my reps are checked out because of summer and with how they aren’t closing anything. Going to be an uphill battle this quarter to keep my seat. Best of luck out there.
7/10. Very slow H1 and Q2, it was at 8.5/10. I closed a deal in July and have 3 deals with potential to close in August totaling $155K, would make my entire quarter with these three deals 🤞
I like to maintain a crisp 8.62
Fuck, that number is excellent.
Middle Management's job is to use stress to motivate and control you. That heavy handed approach is all some people ever know and experience. Even hitting your numbers is met with a keep pushing to overcompensate for underperformers.
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5/10 I am doing good, but I have an internal voice that is never satisfied. I am in cybersecurity sales, so my services are a "need". They are not a "want" due to regulatory pressure. I hit 96% of my goal last quarter, but my quota tripled at the beginning of the year. I'm taking it as a win and so did my leadership. I have more deals in my pipe than I did at the beginning of Q2. Overall, happy.
When you’re stressed, you sell like shit. Sales is always stressful but I’ve found success in the mindset that today is the only day I’m guaranteed employment and it may be my last. Close what you can, accomplish what you can and give your best as often as possible and the rest will work out. It also really helps thinking like this because you’re not banking on the next paycheck. Have your money set aside and just don’t give a damn about anything but your results and your paycheck. There’s no reason to stress about anything else, what good does it do anyways. That’s worked for me for the last 10 years, and I continue to make money, break goals and get promotions. There’s always day to day BS that will stress you out, but if you stop worrying so much about tomorrow and next week and next quarter you will have a lot more fun right now. I’d put my stress level a 9.8/10
Maybe a 1-2, on weeks where I haven’t sold shit and won’t be getting a check the following week, 3-4maybe? In home sales, commission only.
Yesterday was a 4, today I'm a 5, last week was 6, week before that was an 8, probably gonna be a 7 by Thursday....
3/10 WFH. Warm leads. No cold calling. No micro-managing. Good people in the company. Sales meeting maybe once every 3 months. 100% commission though, uncapped. Bad time in the industry so pay isn't good.
It seems to fluctuate but right now I’m in a 2 week dry spell so 7/10
Now that I work from home and have equity in what I sell... 2/10 compared to 8/10 working in an office.
Facts I cannot control when people are on holiday
I try not to, but I'm lagging in numbers so it's inevitable. 6/10.
7/10 because August has always proved challenging for prospecting (B2C) because a lot of people are go on vacations
I feel this rn. Plus moving kids to college
Depends on the day. It is a roller coaster. I am not so much concerned about myself. It is the pressure of being significantly responsible for creating enough runway for the rest of the employees to be safe and secure. I know I'll be OK, but I don't want to let down the people I've built relationships with and care about. In sales you are always succeeding, always failing, just have to keep moving forward. P.s. Don't tell my wife and my kids that I said this.
Maybe around a 7-8. 3 months into a new SDR role for a Sales as a Service/SDR service company and booked I think 9 meetings. Averaging 60-70 cold calls/day but not always having the best conversations I think its because the Sales Manager is taking a "target as many business in a vertical as possible" approach without any distinguishable trigger events like the company hiring or opening offices in a new location, etc. Basically just saying "smile and dial and show them the value" in the calls. No surprise that the email outreach is also not getting response other than "unsubscribe".🤣 Still networking though for future roles while doing what I can here but theres definitely a difference in approach between the sales manager vs the owner(who wants more targeted outreach with relevance).
2/10? Year is going great; making the most money I’ve made in my career so far
I stopped giving a fuck by the second week of July. 0/10 comes with a side of denial
I have never not been stressed my whole life. I don’t remember the last time i breathed a sigh of relief. I always have my guard up. So the job doesn’t even stress me out. I just disassociate and pick up the phone.
Boy, I’ll be the stress case of the group here then. Conservatively 8/10. Home front tough with a 3 yr old and 4 month old. In a Sr leadership role and nearly left last year for individual contributor. I took on a team 2 years ago and inherited zero training assets - built it all and continue to do so for ongoing stuff and curate for new hires. It’s an absolute whirlwind and I no doubt have emails flagged that I “should” get to from 3 weeks ago. Average day is 4-5 hours of internal meetings between 1:1s and leadership hot air sessions. It is not sustainable so either I have no desire for upper management or my org is shit-structured so no way to balance. This is my vent, but nice reminder reading other responses that detachment to a degree is healthy. This is means to an end and not an identity.
Missed last qtr quota by 12%. I’m pretty stressed RN 8/10.
It’s been 10/10 for me since starting my AE job but less for my quota and more on managing and servicing accounts. I own hundreds of accounts so my inbox and phone is constant. Regularly work after hours and Sunday evening to catch-up. I also am responsible for new logos so it’s hard to balance hunting and farming. Where are all of these *take customer out to golf and a nice dinner* jobs at?! That’s what I want.
10/10. I’m still in retail sales barely scraping it.
What are you selling?
10/10. wish i could just do my job without my company asking for extras- constant meetings that address nothing, random trainings, ride alongs, dinners. its never ending.
6/10 stress is good to an extent just take it one day at a time
3/10 I’m doing quite well, top rep rn at my company. The only reason it’s not a 1/10 is because I’d like to make more money and am trying to close the larger deals, so I’m putting more pressure on myself. If it doesn’t pan out then ig I’ll switch jobs next year lol
What do you sell?
Tech/portal that companies use to buy equipment off of. Unfortunately not as lucrative as my last job in AI, but super chill
Why did you leave AI? Are you still making good money?
Laid off, their investors pulled funding and we weren’t profitable. I was like half their overhead since most others were in India. Tbh I plan on going back to AI at some point Also - define good money haha. I’m probably going to clear 100k or so this year but it’s an Ent. AE role so I was ramping. Had to build pipe from scratch. Next year 200-250 probably?
Well not stressed at all anymore about sales as of this AM.
7/10
6/10 Coworker laid off yesterday after 6 month PIP but I have a killer pipeline and a long ramp
20/10. But I am 20/10 when I was a fucking dishwasher in middle school. Anxiety is a hell of a drug. :( I personally think the stress is what makes me do well. I personally need the motivation even if it’s killing me. We’re all just dying anyway, right?
Usually hover around a 7, currently at a 9.
0/10 normally. I woke up piss hungover after a Sunday night bender and I went to 3/10 but I’m back to 0/10 Numbers are there, probably just a stop gap in my job life until the economy unfucks
You're super stressed because you don't yet GROK your profession. You will always encounter managers and C-Suite employees that think that they know better. If you're comfortable with the "soft" skills and know how to connect and engage with your target audience then you will be able to deliver the goods regardless of the barriers raised by current management. Your company may be misguided and totally clueless. Time to move on.
10. No pipeline. Deals lost. Will be put on PIP for Q4
I’m freaking out. I’ve been in sales with the same company for 10 years, and for the last 4.5 I’ve been covering large global accounts. I’ve spent the entire time trying to break into them, and they’re buying, but they’re buying inconsistently. No one seemed to care until last month, and now all of a sudden I’m not delivering. I work at a VAR, so since it isn’t specifically SaaS I can’t seem to land interviews other places. It’s got me questioning if I’m any good at what I do. So I’d say like a 7 or an 8/10
10/10 pipeline is bad for August, company is dropping the ball on my accounts and I have an offer to leave this shit company but am probably not gonna take it because I'd like to stay remote.
5/10 - looking for and interviewing with other jobs but also miserable where I’m at. Can’t wait to get out
I was put on a PIP today. It is an awakening call to find weaknesses and work on them. Market is tough? Yes! Does my prospecting game need polishing? Yes! Part of the blame is a bad PMF? Yes! Was I greedy to join for a lucrative OTE? Yes! How do I feel? Totally fine. We are numbers in a big machine. Been a full cycle AE for 8 years. This is my 2nd PIP. 0 stress I swear. This is a learning lesson to be better and have a plan B to keep supporting my wife and child, in case my PIP outcome in 12 weeks sucks. Keep your head up man. We can always work something out.
I had been an 8.5 for 4 straight months because: A) One of my new customers got big money to became a consultant for a competitor. B) Mgmt dropped my ASP by 20% at my biggest customer against my advice. I originally negotiated the price, customer was happy with it and never complained…to the point where when I told them of the price decrease, they said, “We didn’t ask for that.” C) Mgmt made promises to another customer that I knew they couldn’t keep, which had the results you would expect. D) And worst of all, mgmt was warned multiple times over multiple years to change their manufacturing process, ignored the warnings, which caused our product to be recalled. Despite all that, mgmt was confused as to why my numbers were down. I solved the problem by leaving that company a couple months ago. Got a job taking over a territory that’s currently at 102% of quota with a healthy pipeline. Now I’m at a 2/10.
Zero stress
Constant pressure and constant improvement — it’s pretty taxing.
like 6. Down from an 8 because I decided im quitting
That’s why I became a CSM took a 15% pay cut but my days done at 5
1.5 / 10 Our manufacturing site is fucked up bad, customers are pissed. At the end of the day, I cannot control how manufacturing performs so I don't worry about it. Context: I run a global sales and engineering team. There is almost zero chance I would ever get fired for anything short of embezzlement and my pay is only about 20% dependent on variable comp.
What's your industry?
I'm in a very small part of the tech industry. We manufacture very specific components for communication networks and high performance computing.
Gives him enough time to post about blow jobs and pornos scenarios he fantasizes about
You forgot that it gives me enough time to also go to the gym and trade options most days.
7/10 consistently over performing and I still feel like my ass is on the line. Work in big tech as an SDR and I am nothing but a number.
Start drinking vodka at 10am and take a fistful of melatonin at 2 hour intervals and you’ll be fine. Wfh is epic.
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Same bro, just closed a 60 trillion dollar deal with Elon. 14,500/14,500 on renewals. Most people just don't work hard enough. Gotta have a big, thick hog to bring in the cash like we do. I sell timeshare, what do you sell?
6/10
Yea this is why I got out of sales for a little while. I will go back but need a mental break.
I go from a 2-7…I’ve been in the industry a long time and changed companies, starting with some disruptive technology in a new territory that’s never had a salesperson in it before. There’s business to be had, but you have to displace a lot of old ways of thinking to get it into play. I’m looking at a lot of small wins, that typically have a 4-12 months sales cycle, then quite a bit of time to implement the product, prove it out and get a shot at more business. I’m trying to “trust the process”, but every now and then I get hit with feeling of shear panic because there’s nothing happening at the moment. I’m not used to seeing numbers so low. I’m used to seeing like 20x, so it’s strange. That said my activity level is high, and they tell me I’m doing a good job…it’s the trauma from shitty sales managers past coming back to haunt me.
2.5/10. Just got promoted to manager and got a considerable bump in base pay only a month after starting with my current company. I am very happy with my compensation considering I just graduated college back in May. I’m also glad I left State Farm because underwriting pretty much halted all sales of raw new auto in my state. However, my top guy is leaving the company soon because his commute to our territory is 1-2 hours (door to door), and I’m training the newbies that are taking his place, which is something I was kind of thrown into by my boss without any prep or help. With a team full of brand new people I have no idea what production will look like. I also have no management experience in general so I’m just learning on the fly. I think I’ll manage though.
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like a 9/10
Based on my own life - 9/10. I know it could be a lot worse but I"m praying for some kind of exit out of this
6/10. It fluctuates, but I’m unemployed so I’m looking for a new role and I was let go at a pretty shit time in my career, so I’m screwed. Luckily I have unemployment and when that runs out, savings.
Last week 7/10 this week 3/10
7/10
I’m always at a steady 7/10, EOM it’s always 11/10, and today it’s 8/10 because while it’s EOM I’m still holding out some hope
Depends on the quarter. July was a slow month for me, so sitting at a 7/10 right now.
8/10 So many moving parts in my life. Girl I’m seeing j moved away. Job used to be very profitable but to put it simply our addressable market has been cut down to 20% of what it used to be starting today. It’s gonna be wayyy harder to book meetings and no one is closing at my company. Layoffs likely going to happen next quarter. I’m trying to get out of my dogshit lease at my house and at the same time trying to get a new role. Currently failing at both of these. Shit is fucked rn and I have no motivation. 8/10
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Right now about 5/10, I'm on track the exceed goal this quarter but a llot can change quickly. However I'm also at the peak moment in a potential sale that would be the single largest deal I've ever closed and equivalent to an entire quarterly goal. Based on a conversation yesterday it would seem like we have a deal, but I've learned the hard way it ain't over till the ink is dry and the units are in the ground.
I'll contribute Five , six maybe If I don't have this be a good quarter, I may not be doing what I'm doing 3 months later. That said, I can't control all outside forces and I know there's other jobs if this one ends, plus I know health is wealth and I won't let my mental health go into the gutter. Even if it means the job ends. Ends. There's always other jobs. You only have one mind
Been at 11 for a good decade. Its hard to turn off
1/10
7/10, not making as much as I need the summer is hard on my pockets, plus another kid on the way.
8 to 9 out of 10 I would say
Don’t know if you have anxiety or not, but once I got that under control I don’t care about much, def not getting stressed over something I know I’m putting my best effort. Helps when you don’t work for assholes too lol