Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job
by deagle50 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:31PM
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I moved into sales partly as a hedge against this. It doesn't help much now as nobody is taking in-person meetings but I suspect (and hope) that companies will still prefer to hire account teams in close proximity to their customers.
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Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job
by justQandA on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:55PM
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This is an interesting angle.
Did you move from software development to sales?
Is this technical sales, "Sales engineer", or something different?
I'm curious how one transitions without any sales experience.
Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job
by deagle50 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:53PM
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Yep, sales engineer. I was a infrastructure consultant and SRE before that.
It happened through meeting the sales teams of the vendors I worked with. Eventually one of them asked me if I wanted to apply for a sales engineer role. He then referred me and vouched. Always be nice to your vendors and partners.