He said with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. But really statistics are a two edge sword. You may have a 99.5% chance of living throughout the day. You have a 100% chance of dying ultimately.
This is a departure from our "action plan" but I suffer from "shiny object syndrome", and something sparked this line of thought. Now is a time in history when many displaced workers will relocate into a sales position. It is just fact that many other jobs have evaporated and some will decide to give sales a try. Thru hard work and luck or some help by others they may even reach some level of success. But does that make them a sales person.
I read a study that said that eight of ten people making their living from direct sales were mismatched to their job. They derived little or no satisfaction from the career and would never excel because they were struggling to just survive. It also said that of the two "true" sales people; one was selling the wrong product (tangible vs intangible; big ticket vs retail; etc). My own experience tells me this is close to accurate. I don't know the exact percentages but I have sat across from many a person who was as frustrated as I was. I could not understand why they could not seem to value their own efforts and they could not get anything to work.
So, if you find yourself as one of the 8, that's OK. But admit it, and when things change find a career that you value. Life is too short to be mediocre. Be great or be terrible but never mediocre. If you are the one who is selling the wrong product....change when you can. A step backwards at some point will be more than made up for with a lifetime of production and satisfaction.
If you are the one left....next post we will get back to the "action plan".
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