My son had been in flavour sales & product development for almost twenty years (food ingredients) but took a break from it pre-covid to go on a working holiday in Russia, teaching English. He was stuck there for quite a long while but enjoyed it!
Now he's back but reluctant to go into sales again as it's a hard business, so has been studying online and plans on teaching English full-time, likely in Russia again as the school over there is keen to have him back!
All the way to Russia just to get out of sales sounds crazy but that's where he's at now, even though he was invited to an interview as he really knows his flavours!
I think you may understand his reluctance to go back to sales as it's a tough business to be in, no matter what industry!
You were fortunate to get out and find success in another field, I would say!
I love that John Wooden quote by the way, AND have to add, that coffee and gorgeous croissant looks too good!
That's a lot of effort to get out of sales. I actually don't mind it, I guess being really good at it helps. I just don't want to do property any more, not just the sales, but any aspect of it. Just not interested.
I hope your son gets that English teaching gig, sounds like an adventure.
He was good at his job, but unfortunately, the last company he worked for was new in a market that takes about 3 years to break into, and they expected him to do it within a couple of months; they became real nasty in the end, so sales he will not take on easily as they were not open to him and he's afraid that may happen again!
However, he is quite disillusioned about our country, as many of us are, and that actually is the crux of the matter.
Many young people are emigrating as our politicians are openly corrupt and infrastructure is not being maintained. Basic services like public health, clean water, electricity supply, and sewerage disposal is a huge problem in many parts of our beautiful country! At least in the cities it's not a problem; the retirement village we intend retiring to one day in a small coastal town at least have their own backup water and purification system as well as solar heating, but they have a long waiting list. We don't mind as we're still enjoying being kept busy in our bnb and it will be a huge change in our lifestyle!
A company demanding more than any normal persona can deliver Really? Sounds like most big corporations.
It's funny you say about infrastructure, someone I know over there is without internet right now...Another failing no doubt. It must be really terrible to remember the good old days but see it going down the gurgler.