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I'm a salesman and bloody proud of it!
Who the hell are you to say that my profession attracts disgust in others? Without sales people no industry in the world would survive. Every one of us sells ourselves nearly every day. Ask yourself, did you sell yourself when you met your wife, girlfriend? Or maybe you don't have the people skills to have progressed to that stage.
Of course we need engineers as well, who else would we call to fix the coffee machine?
before we get back into a huge arguement over why we need engineers which has been exhausted on other threads let me wrap it up simply,
1. without engineers you wouldnt have a job as you would have nothing to sell,
2. well designed products dont need salesman they sell themselves, my products do not need a sniviling brown nosed slime balls to generate revenue, I stick them on a stand and people with lots of medals buy them, I suppose that is a type of sales, I think you can see what type of salesman I hate though,
3. salesman lie as their job, met many, liked few, you sell your soul to make money, not much difference between that and the oldest trade, if you dont sell your soul then you enjoying lying and thats worse,
4. who the hell am I too say your trade attracts disgust in others, somebody who has a respected trade which has taken 10 years to learn so far, a mate of mine makes similar money after a 2 week sales training course, which one of us has more financial security?
5. Without sales people no industry in the world would survive - I doubt it, and if industries did die then maybe we didnt need them, notice how its the least necessary trades that go first when its a recession, yep thats right, we didnt need you all along,
6. Did I sell myself when I met my girlfriend, no, thats what all the kids in clubs do, preened hair, cool clothes etc, reminds me of a peacock strutting its stuff trying to attract a partner, civilised society has come beyond that,
7. your closing gambet on your lack of knowledge on engineers, there is an enormous difference between a a guy who can fix a coffee machine and a guy who designs turrets and armoured vehicles which keep people alive in war zones (guess which catagory I fit in, there may be a clue,)