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I love hearing this.

My story: mostly business analytics (2005-2022), sales engineering, sales (both at same tech start up), and now running a solo consulting business.

I also really liked sales. Updating a CRM, not so much. But sales allowed me to spend my day talking with people about problems. No day the same, and lots of focus on finding different/better ways to communicate.

In what industries did these roles happen? Same industry/domain or have you changed that as well?



Domain is all government, but the tech is different across each of them.

I love talking too, part of why I think pre-sales is a lot of fun. And I actually love my CRM work from a data perspective, but my background is in synthesizing data and optimization. Once I turned my sales process into a network optimizing problem, it became extremely interesting to me and imperative to keep the data current.


Fair point. I too like the data side of CRM. So many interesting possibilities.

Did you always enjoy talking or did you discover it at some point prior to your current sales role?




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