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I was reading this, and of course, there was a Stacy talking about how wonderful her sales job is:
The Pay Is High and Jobs Are Plentiful, but Few Want to Go Into Sales
Sales positions these days are less about making cold calls and more about problem-solving with clients, but young workers may associate the work with high-pressure tactics, and finding people to take sales jobs is often tough.
www.wsj.com
Amber is definitely a Stacy-esque name.Amber Hus dreamed of working in entertainment when she enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017 as a communications major. An internship at a Los Angeles public-relations firm left her disillusioned. Another internship, in business development at Spark & Bloom Superfoods, had her reaching out to local grocery stores and gyms about carrying the allergy-friendly snacks. The 24-year-old says she loved the customer interaction so much she decided to try sales upon graduation.
After dozens of interviews, she settled on a full-time sales job at ringDNA, a position that doesn’t involve making phone-call quotas or other hard-sell tactics.
“It was more problem-solving, being a good listener and asking questions, rather than the ‘smile and dial’,” she said, referring to unsolicited cold-calling.