Treat Your Sales Job As A Career

Jarod Dickson
2 min readJun 9, 2018

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Not just a pitstop.

In my experience, I’ve noticed a lot of Sales Professionals treat their jobs as a sort of pit stop or bridge — just something to get us to the next thing.

If I’m honest, I’ve had this mindset myself.

Since I was a teen I wanted to own my own company. I wasn't sure what type of business I would start, but I knew I wanted to be my own boss. My feelings have changed a bit about that in some ways, but that is a conversation for another day.

I would spend hours learning how to market. I would spend hours teaching myself about real estate. I would read books and listen to podcasts about anything and everything except how to do my job better.

Isn’t that funny? I would devote so much time and energy learning how to make money doing something that wasn’t paying me while I neglected getting better at the thing keeping my lights on.

I would devote so much time and energy learning how to make money doing something that wasn’t paying me while I neglected getting better at the thing keeping my lights on.

Has anyone else been there?

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Jarod Dickson

Sales Leader & Trainer | Learning Enthusiast | Investor & Money Geek www.millennialecon.com