I want to go into sales because they seem to earn a shit ton of money.

Are sales folks proles? Labor aristocracy?

Would I be a class traitor for selling something and earning, like, 10x more than the artist/engineer/ laborer who makes that thing?

  • star_wraith [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In general, sales people do not make all that much more than a lot of other workers. Some make a lot, but that’s usually because they land some huge customer or have a shit ton of connections that leverage into sales. It’s also a very precarious job for a lot of people. You are given a sales target for a certain period. Don’t hit that target, and you’re gone. And it’s usually up to you to figure it all out, too.

    I used to work with a lot of B2B sales people. The people who made money usually started as engineers or some other non-sales role, and sold to all the people they used to work with.

    Tbh sales is a pretty miserable job.

    Class analysis isn’t taxonomy. It’s not about sorting each and every profession into a bucket. Ultimately, it’s about understanding how the working class can form a political consciousness and then act. Whether or not the someone who sells cardboard to UPS is a “worker” or not isn’t really something class analysis is meant to answer, imo.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is such a thoughtful response and I feel awful for not having the mental faculty to respond to it with more clarity and thought at the moment but I absolutely need to have this conversation. All this to say, I will be back in a bit with some actual things to say, questions/concerns and such.