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Originally Posted by Dave Kaminski  I've had a difficult time so far tying a position like this down. |
OK, let me play back what I'm hearing and what I'm surmising. You tell me if I'm hot or cold.
You want to be in an environment where you can excel. You don't want to be held back by other people, especially by lazy or self centered people. You don't want to be stuck getting rewarded by an average of everyone's contribution, especially if the average isn't that good. (I.e., suppose you got a job that paid everyone who had that position exactly $60K a year. Now, to make payroll, the productive employees have to create value more than $60K a year to pay for the salary of the slackers who were creating value of less than $60K a year. You'd hate that).
Not only do you not want to be stuck getting rewarded by an average, you don't want your contribution being held back to the average of what most people are willing to do either. (Suppose you worked on a road crew... and no matter how much of a contribution you wanted to make, you couldn't go any faster than how fast everyone else on the crew was willing to go. You'd hate that too).
You want to find a company that sells an excellent service or product. A company that helps customers, has integrity, and provides a good value for the money.
For this company you'd like to be a salesperson. While for other people the thought of making cold calls and going from door to door or from business to business meeting potential customers would be less appealing than the thought of going to the dentist every day, you would enjoy this work because of your particular talents of woo, connectedness, communication, and focus. Your talent of intellection will help you in the long run because you will be able to think through the sales approach and come up with improvements.
You are looking for a win-win-win situation. A win for customers because they will be getting a good product that they otherwise wouldn't have known about. A win for the business because it will be making more sales. And a win for you because you will be making money and providing a service to many people.