Vantaggi
* Environment- Even though it is sales, they set it up like a "team environment" so you have people to pick you up on the bad days. Do a lot of fun things like paid parties/happy hours, family outings, giveaways (I had a friend win a trip to Ireland), and I even had beer delivered to my desk on a few Fridays *Training- I loved the training programs. I use the skills I learned in them in everyday life. Saved a ton of money for my friend for her wedding because I became an expert negotiator. Also use them for interpersonal stuff. they teach you to use questioning for needs assessment which you can also use in everyday life conversations. *Transparent- a lot of sales is kind of "snakey" or dishonest where at TQL they wanted us to be up front with customers and be ourselves (use our personality, not a script). Also, how much everyone makes there is published for everyone to see
Svantaggi
*It is a very reactive job...you "never know when lightning could strike" so if you have a hard time going with the flow it makes it difficult. My account became popular in a short amount of time but I have a tendency to be a control freak so I got stressed out and fearful of making a mistake. You have to be confident in making quick decisions and also not let it get to you when you hear a lot of "no"s at first. The people on my team who could just go with it and didn't care to put themselves out there seemed to do very quickly *Takes about 1-2 years in selling on average to build your book of business so not the big money right away and a lot of hard work initially. Although, once you get up and going, they give you assistants and a team and it feels like the assistants start doing most of the hard stuff after that. It's not hard to be in 6 figures after 2 or 3 years. Just have to hack that first year which is hard *The hours are long- can be longer even if you want to put the extra work in. They tell you that up front though so it wasn't a big surprise. The saturdays I had to work I actually earned a lot of saturdays off so I didn't have to do many after the first month or so. But in sales training (after month 4) I was working like 55- 60 hours a week some weeks to get my business up and going quickly