Selling Sucks! Here Are Five Reasons to Embrace It
I like to tell my daughter there are only two kinds of people in life: winners and those who are afraid to fail. Rejection and failure are central to extraordinary success in any endeavor. Salespeople fail a lot — especially early on — and it’s okay, even expected. That doesn’t make it easy.
Salespeople have guts because they face rejection and failure continually, and they get up and do it again. Learn to be okay with failure as a constant in your life and you’ll know that you’re moving forward while others are stuck in park.
If you’re only looking at your career over the short term, don’t consider sales. It sucks. It’s difficult and it can be really hard to hear “no” many, many times in a row.
On the other hand, if you realize that your corporate career might last 20, 30 or 40 years, and want a leg up on all of the other weasels who are jostling up the same ladder as you, go into sales. Learn a skill with the potential to set you apart, give you a different viewpoint and that might just take you far over the long term.