>>9351166>>9351166this was the person I meant to reply to, I guest post ID no. doesn't carryover when transferred to bant
>>9351742Anyway to continue, so in 2016 after that trip I got a new job back home working as an SDR, sales development representative, for SaaS startup
Basically this is a role a lot of software companies hire for, it's not really a sales role, your goal is just to talk to decision makers and get them to agree to meeting w actual salesperson who makes real money. Still, it was a step up. I made $15 per hour, had great benefits, plus got commission on top of it. It usually wasn't much but could be an extra 100 to 300 per month, at one time on inbound it was an extra 800 a month and was not a bad gig. But it was still shitty phone work. I was sending out tons of emails and making a hundred cold calls a day. Shitty demoralizing work. Higher ups constantly told us if we did a good job as an SDR, we'd be promoted to Account Executive (actual salesperson) within a year or two. These guys made closer to 6 figures, sometimes more with commission. After a year and half there I realized it wasn't gonna happen. There were people on my team who were genuine "rockstars" and go getters who were way better at sales than I was and even they all got promoted so the company could hire from outside. At that point I mentally checked out and was ultimately fired.
Didn't want to do that shit again but then I took a call center job doing tech support for $13 per hour, it sucked. Quit after 6 months and when my parents went thru a serious illness. Did gig work like doordash and instacart for months. Somehow lucked into my current job which despite low pay is much easier than previous jobs.
My main problem IMO wasn't my major but the first job I took after college. Once you're doing something like that, companies only want to hire you based on previous experience. My previous experience was shitty customer service jobs, so that's been most of what I could get
