Vantaggi
Working in sports! Gamedays are exciting and getting to be a part of your team's success is rewarding and fun. A great team of coworkers around you. (Mostly) everyone is friendly and talkative. The coaching staff and players are incredibly friendly as well.
Svantaggi
Pay is abysmal, even for an "entry level" job. $23,000/year plus commissions that never seem to be paid out properly. You shouldn't have to badger your managers every time your paycheck is miscalculated. Leadership is incredibly inconsistent and frustrating. Both leaders of the sales team are tremendous salesman, but lack key qualities of great leaders. The director that is directly in charge of all inside sales representatives is especially authoritarian. There should be a balance of rewards and punishments, but the leadership team insists on focusing on scolding and threats. You will be micromanged in an effort to increase output, but in reality, there just isn't the support behind you to effectively sell. Incredibly long work weeks. 50-60 hour weeks were the norm. The "official" hours are 8:30am-5:00pm, but expect to go in early and leave late, as well as work 90% of weekends. We were forced to work up through the week of Christmas, even though the rest of the company had the week off. This is a high stress position and will push you to your limits. Don't be fooled by the "work hard, play hard" cliche. Absolutely no training. They will throw you on the phone and hope for the best. You will be expected to call 15 people an hour, with no exceptions. If you fall behind this pace, you will have someone at your desk to tell you to speed it up. Quotas are also unmanageable. 10 season tickets/groups a week for an organization that can't fill the stadium because of nonexistent marketing efforts to support the sales team. Incredibly high turnover (whatever you are thinking, it's higher than that). I've seen multiple coworkers last only a few weeks.