05-02-2007, 09:35 PM
I'm going to be the dissenting opinion but that was probably a foregone conclusion.
I think you're going to hate having a sales job, especially one that requires travel. You're going to miss your home life, the relatively cushy hours you have now and you're definitely going to miss your g/f. I don't think a girl is the right reason to pass up an opportunity but this seems more like a way out than an opportunity.
I'd also be nervous about my fall back being a job that was okay with letting me go and then taking me back. It's clear your current situation is somewhat of a dead end but the choice shouldn't be the available job in your current company IMO. What's the career move if you end up excelling at sales? Do you eventually not have to travel as much? Where will you be in 3 years if you keep at it? You're at a crossroads in your life where you can really get ahead by starting a career and it doesn't seem to me this is one you'd like to have. You can take the time to "live it up" but everything else in your life says to me that you want to go the other direction. Taking a job that doesn't set you down that path only sets you back however many years. I've seen the good and the bad of it with people I work with. (read: people younger than me who are doing as well as people 10 years my senior).
It really sounds to me like you need to find a new company.
I think you're going to hate having a sales job, especially one that requires travel. You're going to miss your home life, the relatively cushy hours you have now and you're definitely going to miss your g/f. I don't think a girl is the right reason to pass up an opportunity but this seems more like a way out than an opportunity.
I'd also be nervous about my fall back being a job that was okay with letting me go and then taking me back. It's clear your current situation is somewhat of a dead end but the choice shouldn't be the available job in your current company IMO. What's the career move if you end up excelling at sales? Do you eventually not have to travel as much? Where will you be in 3 years if you keep at it? You're at a crossroads in your life where you can really get ahead by starting a career and it doesn't seem to me this is one you'd like to have. You can take the time to "live it up" but everything else in your life says to me that you want to go the other direction. Taking a job that doesn't set you down that path only sets you back however many years. I've seen the good and the bad of it with people I work with. (read: people younger than me who are doing as well as people 10 years my senior).
It really sounds to me like you need to find a new company.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth