Suburban Goddess

Well, I’ve accepted a job position. I received two offers in three days, and money is too tight to turn one down at this point. One was a graphics position down in the Galleria; an office on the top floor, a fancy title, and a huge pay cut. It would have gotten me in with some of Houston’s movers and shakers, a fancy PR firm that might have ended up making me six figures in two years.

Or maybe not. It was a start-up, and seeing how I’m knee-deep in my own start-up, my heart can only handle so much fear of the unknown. But I’ll never know, because I ended up taking a job in sales.

Sales. Me. A die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool graphic designer… the fight between designers and sales has approached epic in my life. I HATE salespeople. So why would I volunteer to step across party lines and willing subject myself to this?

Call it morbid curiosity. That, and the commission rate is amazing, the leads are handed to you, and it’s for a product I can believe in. No cold-calling, but a lot of driving. I’ll end up making way more than I did at my last company, and I won’t be chained to a desk for eight hours a day. There’s flexibility in sales, and it’s the last dying meritocracy out there. At least in this position I know I will be rewarded for good work. That’s not something I can say about graphic design.

I’ll still follow my dream to become self-employed; this job actually affords me more time to do so. They don’t care if I’m calling my own clients in-between theirs… my downtime is MINE.

And I can blog any doggone time I want to. Life is good again.

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