Today’s prompt is pretty self-evident. I knew I did the right thing quitting a sales job after a week. In this earlier post, I wrote about my experiences during the week at said job. I tried to have an open mind to about the experience and I learned a little about human psychology. The only problem is, that I felt that B2B sales are exploitive. I left because I was experiencing cognitive dissonance.
Any situation where you are paid by the amount of work you can produce seems fair. However, due to my personality and previous work experience, I didn’t want to continue on. The people I worked with,while genuinely just trying to survive came off as narcissitic sociopaths.In the office, we’re trained in techniques to further a conversation to produce a bill of sale. To me this comes off as emtional manipulation of established entrepeneurs.
It was always the smaller independent or family owned business we would target. Places that had been around for decades and had good repeat business. I kept thinking to myself, we have nothing to offer them, but we’re supposed to be assertive(read arrogant) about how they run their businesses.
After reflecting over the weekend, I resigned the following monday. Life is already has enough people justifying their manipulations as opportunity. I refuse to be one of those types of people.