The news
April 13, 2007(Sorry this is such horribly old news now, and that it’s totally anticlimactic since I already kind of broke the news in the last post!)
So I haven’t been able to write about this, for obvious reasons, but I officially quit my job this week. Don’t worry, I have another one lined up. My job has given me great experience over the past four years, but I’ve been thinking about trying another career path for a while now, and I started feeling like it was now or never.
So I started looking for other jobs back in December, but that fizzled for various reasons and I decided to stick around for a few more months. Once I started looking again, I had narrowed my search down to sales jobs. I know it sounds crazy and a lot of people are still raising their eyebrows at me when I tell them, but I think that I might be really good at it. At least that’s what I’m being told (you all better not be lying). Besides, the worst thing that could happen would be that I wouldn’t be good at it, and I’d end up doing something else. No biggie, I’m young…I’ll bounce back. And if I am good, well then that means I’ll have a job I like and am good at and I’ll make more money. So I decided to take the risk.
I quickly found that no one wanted to gamble on hiring (or even interviewing) a field rep without any sales experience. So the leads I was getting were, er, less than desirable. Bad hours, low base salaries…not what I was looking for. I started to wonder if that was just what I’d have to do break into sales. I hoped it wasn’t, but I still wondered!
Then a few weeks ago, we had dinner with Steve and Sissy. Sissy is basically my new life coach! She motivated me to get out there, be confident, and not settle until I got what I wanted. And she even convinced me that I was good enough to be picky! So I decided, what the heck, I will be picky. As it turns out, the better opportunities started coming my way. I turned a couple of them down, and then I found what I was looking for. Higher base, better opportunity, smaller territory close to where I live, solid business, daytime hours only and great flexibility. I was sold!
I’m still pretty nervous when I take the time to think about the immense change this will be for my lifestyle, but I keep reminding myself that was kind of the whole idea in the first place! I really do like my current job and, of course, I love the people I work with. But I wanted to do something where I’d be motivated knowing that there would be rewards for my extra efforts (by rewards of course I mean cashmoney), and something that would offer me much more flexibility and control over my schedule. So, here goes! There’s no turning back now!
