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Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by DrNuke on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:21AM (#18038334)
sales is so underrated and despised but nevertheless...
Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by NPMaxwell on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:01PM (#18043322)
Entry level sales positions that I have bumped into have paid only slightly over minimum wage. And I appreciate the suggestion. I'll check locally. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by arandr0x on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:30PM (#18043430)
The workflow goes as such: you get an entry level sales position of the retail or cold calling variety. You become the best person on the floor. There you go, now you can sell anything, get hired at a high commission position selling software, ad space, furniture, things with high price tags.

Sales jobs are as taxing as entry-level Java jobs and not much more likely to leave someone capable of going to school in their off hours (especially since they tend to require some travel or entertainment on your own time). However, presumably you also wish to help extroverts, who are unlikely to want to spend hours writing "public static" in front of random character strings every single day.

Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by NPMaxwell on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:22PM (#18043705)
About extroverts: good question. I'll have to think about it. Thanks