10-10-2003, 12:41 AM
And guess who has a BA in Marketing???
Hint:
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Marketing has no skills. It's all bullshit.
Two things that are cool in the marketin field.
1. Safe route: Advertising
Especially with your zany sense of humor going into advertising could be fun. You could get an entry level job working in either creative, copy, or account management. Get paid shit (less than $30k) for a few years, but if you do well, and take to it, you can make some real good money in creative. And that has to be one of the most fun jobs in the history of the world.
2. risky route: Sales
Depending on what your selling it could be fun (if it's a quality industry and a differentiated product), or it could be a major bear (insurance, copiers, most any commodity really).
The upside:
A. Complete freedom of your schedule, you don't have managers breathing down your neck as long as you are peforming.
B. You will make good money. Even if you are only mediocre in sales, you'll still make pretty good money comparatively to what else you would make.
C. Challenge. It's one of those things. You see people running companies, making a ton of money. Are they any smarter than you, or more driven than you, or whatever? Is there really any difference other than they took the risk of sales?
The downside:
A. The hours are long. If you actually want to try and succeed, you're normally looking at 10 hour days. And there is never shortage of things to do. Since you control your own success, you could make it a 24-hour a day job. It can get very intense and dominate your life
B. You could fail. If you are horrible at your marketing position, there really isn't any tangible way to measure it. If you suck at sales, you won't sell anything, your entire company will hate you, and you will feel like a miserable failure. It can get very depressing if you're not doing as well as you want to and don't really know what you're doing. Some people find a way to make it work, some people either give up early or just aren't really cut out for sales.
To paraphrase a line from Braveheart:
Sure, go into sales and you might fail miserably If you go into marketing or some other safe white-collar job, you'll be happy and get predictable mediocre money...for a least a while. But dying in your bed many years from now...would you be willing to trade every day from this day to that for one chance. Just one chance, to come back here and something something something see just how you would step up to the challenge of something really risky that only few people attempt and even fewer really master?
Hint:
<-----------
Marketing has no skills. It's all bullshit.
Two things that are cool in the marketin field.
1. Safe route: Advertising
Especially with your zany sense of humor going into advertising could be fun. You could get an entry level job working in either creative, copy, or account management. Get paid shit (less than $30k) for a few years, but if you do well, and take to it, you can make some real good money in creative. And that has to be one of the most fun jobs in the history of the world.
2. risky route: Sales
Depending on what your selling it could be fun (if it's a quality industry and a differentiated product), or it could be a major bear (insurance, copiers, most any commodity really).
The upside:
A. Complete freedom of your schedule, you don't have managers breathing down your neck as long as you are peforming.
B. You will make good money. Even if you are only mediocre in sales, you'll still make pretty good money comparatively to what else you would make.
C. Challenge. It's one of those things. You see people running companies, making a ton of money. Are they any smarter than you, or more driven than you, or whatever? Is there really any difference other than they took the risk of sales?
The downside:
A. The hours are long. If you actually want to try and succeed, you're normally looking at 10 hour days. And there is never shortage of things to do. Since you control your own success, you could make it a 24-hour a day job. It can get very intense and dominate your life
B. You could fail. If you are horrible at your marketing position, there really isn't any tangible way to measure it. If you suck at sales, you won't sell anything, your entire company will hate you, and you will feel like a miserable failure. It can get very depressing if you're not doing as well as you want to and don't really know what you're doing. Some people find a way to make it work, some people either give up early or just aren't really cut out for sales.
To paraphrase a line from Braveheart:
Sure, go into sales and you might fail miserably If you go into marketing or some other safe white-collar job, you'll be happy and get predictable mediocre money...for a least a while. But dying in your bed many years from now...would you be willing to trade every day from this day to that for one chance. Just one chance, to come back here and something something something see just how you would step up to the challenge of something really risky that only few people attempt and even fewer really master?