There are some jobs that people do not know exist until they start to branch out into the world. In 2015 Wall Street reported that the younger members of the working world were hesitant to take sales jobs which has caused companies to do a better job at trying to pitch their jobs to young, shy-millennials.
Key Takeaways:
- There are some jobs you can’t possibly know exist until you leave a corporate hub like New York or San Francisco.
- Americans tend to want to get straight down to business, but some of my biggest sales were made after hours of talking to CEOs in Latin America or Africa about their grandmothers or their hometown cricket teams or their passion for woodworking.
- More than anything else, my experience as a sales rep traveling around on my own made me more comfortable opening up to all kinds of people, understanding what we’re all really saying (and not saying), and creating space for human connections, not just commercial ones.
“Some people say that everything is sales, and I’ve reluctantly come to believe them.”
