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I felt this when I joined a sales org as a Sales Engineer. I felt like I was making a healthy salary but couldn’t believe the cars I was seeing driven by the reps I supported. Until one day I had a conversation about it with a few of them and found out they do everything in terms of payments. As in can I afford the payment with no concern about what that costs in interest etc. Eye opening experience.

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I’ve been told that in sales teams it is common for them to be highly encouraged to go out and buy a new car and other things like that so that they have an incentive to make their quotas. Think that scene in Boiler Room where the guy running the firm told all the brokers to go out and buy a new car.

There’s a school of thought that when hiring commissioned salespeople, that you want to hire the ones who have a large monthly outflow they need to cover every month.

https://www.saastr.com/your-1-sales-rep-should-be-driving-an...

Embodied with all the expected toxicity in this article.

Yikes. That’s pretty much the reason I left the org I was referring to.

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