What job other than sales can I do?
I have been doing sales now for 21 years. I **** it. I used to like it, but for the last couple of years I LOATHE it. In this economy no one is buying and I’m sick to death of calling or emailing my customers and getting no responses at all. I don’t want to sell anymore. I don’t have a college degree and can’t afford to go to school and get one.
But I still need to make decent money. I have marketing and business development experience and am pretty technical (though I am in no way qualified for a tech support or IT job, I’m not THAT technical).
My strengths are:
*delivering a speech to people
*brainstorming and implementing ideas
*educating others on the benefits of something
*bringing other people together and organizing meeting info and assigning tasks
*writing
*researching
*planning events
My challenges:
I do not want to cold call either via phone, email or in person. I don’t like it, it stresses me out.I avoid conflict at all cost and don’t like to have to be persistent to make something happen (no collection agencies!).
I don’t like to clean (no merry maids)
Retail is out because I can’t work nights and weekends for minimum wage.
What can I do? After all of these years I desperately want to leave the sales field and do something much better with my time and life.