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Warning: That career change I made 6 months ago backfired hard
Left a steady IT job last December to try sales at a startup. Thought the commission would be worth it. I've made about $12,000 total since then, and my savings are almost gone. Has anyone else jumped ship and regretted it within the first year?
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kai77914d ago
Yeah, jumping ship is the new staying put around here.
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paigewood14d ago
$12,000 in six months is rough but that's actually about $2,000 a month which is more than I made my first year in sales at a car dealership back in 2019. A lot of these startup sales jobs pay a small base and then promise big commissions that take months to actually come through if they ever do. Maybe check if your old IT job has a rehire policy, a guy I know went back to his old company after a failed startup venture and they took him back within the same week.
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