I currently have an excellent work life balance. It's non-physical office work that I enjoy and allows me to make a savings. The commute isn't crazy. I took a big pay cut to work here.
It took me 7 years to find a job like this and I'm sure someday this well will dry up, but hopefully my tactics will help me find a similar one.
Not at all! I currently work for a 150 person company that installs solar panels.
There are 5 of us here who work as inside reps. The company buys lists of leads or generates its own, and we make about 100 calls per day basically just asking to sit down and present them a quote.
The electricty rates are so high here in NY that it often is cheaper to convert the whole house to financed solar panels than it is to use grid electricity.
I used to work tech sales that were b2b and more complex. The pay was bad and the culture was torture.
In this job, though I took a pay cut, I actually feel like I belong here and the customers are generally more receptive of my phone calls.
I make $36,000 base salary, with $50 per appointment set I make nearly $50,000 a year working 36 hours 11am to 7pm. Casual dress code, health benefits, beer and food, etc.
Sounds great and sane! I'm looking for something like that with software but I'm finding it's either brutal startup hours or boring mind numbing corporate jobs. Still looking. Something will turn up.
Thank you!
Good luck to you friend! Maybe consider sales engineering. I find that these days, developers and sales reps are pushed to the limit, but sales engineers tend to sit in the best of both worlds. Good luck!!!
It took me 7 years to find a job like this and I'm sure someday this well will dry up, but hopefully my tactics will help me find a similar one.