Huddle, I Need Your Advice

[CatofWar]

I know its bad when i come here looking for advice. Quick back story..... been outta work for over a year. Had two interviews today. Got an offer from both. Need help on making the best choice.

Offer 1 is a decent gig. Pay is fair with long hours and 6 to 7 day work weeks. All i will be doing is driving a big ass truck so its nothing back breaking.

Offer 2 is sales. Commission only. Guy claims all his peeps are pulling in crazy $. Never done sales but i imagine hes exaggerating a bit by telling me i can realistically bring in 6 figures in year one.

Am i a dumbass for considering offer 2? Any sales guys here have any advice? What do you think Cam would do?

[Black]

Sales jobs aren't for everybody, and commission only is shady. No base pay is a huge red flag. I would take the sure thing

[pOpCoRnPoPpEr]

Sometimes, you can get girls to show their boobs with a horn blast. See you on the highway.

[Ivan The Awesome]

I did sales for a bit. I didn't like it. I was good at it, but I did not like it.

[jasonluckydog]

It's hard to sell a poo product if you dont have the skills.....Keep trucking

[panther4life]

I know its bad when i come here looking for advice. Quick back story..... been outta work for over a year. Had two interviews today. Got an offer from both. Need help on making the best choice.

Offer 1 is a decent gig. Pay is fair with long hours and 6 to 7 day work weeks. All i will be doing is driving a big ass truck so its nothing back breaking.

Offer 2 is sales. Commission only. Guy claims all his peeps are pulling in crazy $. Never done sales but i imagine hes exaggerating a bit by telling me i can realistically bring in 6 figures in year one.

Am i a dumbass for considering offer 2? Any sales guys here have any advice? What do you think Cam would do?

depends on what your selling.

[Sapper]

Unless you can be more detailed, it sounds like option 1 is better on the surface.

[CatofWar]

Selling alarm systems. Commission range is 350 to 650 per sale, depending on the service they roll with. Another plus of it is I work when I want, choose my own hours, no boss breathing down my neck etc. down side is no base pay. I'm leaning towards giving it a shot. I have to try to find out if I can swing it or not. If not then I really fuged myself.

[ladypanther]

#2...you take all the risk. What meets your needs at this time? I would go with the sure thing. Then work on a plan....to get wherever you want to be...in a calculating way...not by gambling.

[panther4life]

Selling alarm systems. Commission range is 350 to 650 per sale, depending on the service they roll with. Another plus of it is I work when I want, choose my own hours, no boss breathing down my neck etc. down side is no base pay. I'm leaning towards giving it a shot. I have to try to find out if I can swing it or not. If not then I really fuged myself.

Sounds like a door to door sales job. If that's what it is fug that. If you have no sales experience and they are begging you to work there it must not be a very desirable job. I say go do the sure thing and keep your eyes and ear's open for something better while you collect the steady paycheck.

[Brooklyn Bully]

If you were smart, you'd take neither and keep looking. But if those are your only choices, please take the first. The second one is nothing more than a gimmick and scam. Him telling you that these salesmen are making crazy figures shoud've been a huge red flag.

[Jase]

i'd take honest work over sales any day.

[pir8fan05]

Definitely #1

The alarm sales is garbage. I did it in college for about 3 weeks. Never made a dime (spent about $200 in gas). When I did it the whole selling point was that the buyers could get free installation if their credit was good enough. The only problem is they would take us in a van (when we did it as a group) and basically drop us off at trashy neighborhoods, trailer parks, etc. Hardly any of them had good enough credit.

Sales should be for a good product and business-to-business. Most legit sales jobs have at least some kind of base salary as well. Usually you would get a certain territory with some established customers too.

I'm in sales now (well, actually I took over my branch and am Branch Manager as of about 18mths ago). Started off as inside sales. Base was only like $35k at first but we usually maxed out our quarterly bonuses ($4k each Q). We sell plastics, machine parts at one location and also sell engineering services to different industries (and have a plasma treatment, surface modification division in CA). All things that companies actually need.

[CatofWar]

It was a red flag but its enjoyable to day dream. I think lp put it best. Thx for the replies.