BarneyRubble
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Hi All,
I feel the need to share my tale of reality stifling my dreams as it will be good to get it off my chest!
It has been a long held ambition to return to the cycle industry having worked as a sales exec in my LBS 10 years ago. After years in sales related jobs selling things I have no interest in and generally feeling very unfulfilled I decided to start making an effort to realise my dream/ambition. I was well aware of the high levels of competition for sales jobs in the cycle industry and knew my lack of direct cycle industry experience would count against me, but I wrote a tailored CV and applied for a couple of choice looking opportunities selling brands I respected. Responses were typically "thanks but no thanks" but then a company saw past the obvious experience issue and invited me for interview. I was up against several experienced cycle industry types, so didn't expect much, but low and behold I was offered the job! Fairly quickly though my excitement turned to disappointment as I realised that the salary was just too far below my current earnings to accept the role. Even with some serious belt tightening and no social life I just wouldn't be able to meet my financial commitments. I know you might be thinking "why did he apply if the pay would be too low?" but my current salary was on my application and the advert said "generous package". What I hadn't appreciated (although I'd heard it) is that the cycle industry really does lag behind other market sectors in terms of pay and conditions. So in the end I had to turn it down; I just couldn't expect my wife to give up our goal of buying a house and ever having a holiday again so I could take the job. To be honest I am completely gutted as I now have to accept that I will probably never be able to return to the industry I love (barring a small lottery win) and will be doing jobs that are just "jobs" for the rest of my life. Damn I'm depressed.
Still, my loss is someone else's gain and they are re-advertising the job; it really did seem like a great opportunity and if it wasn't for my mountain of financial commitments I'd be working there now! advert can be found here: http://www.bikebiz.com/jobs/read/territ ... ntatives-2
I feel the need to share my tale of reality stifling my dreams as it will be good to get it off my chest!
It has been a long held ambition to return to the cycle industry having worked as a sales exec in my LBS 10 years ago. After years in sales related jobs selling things I have no interest in and generally feeling very unfulfilled I decided to start making an effort to realise my dream/ambition. I was well aware of the high levels of competition for sales jobs in the cycle industry and knew my lack of direct cycle industry experience would count against me, but I wrote a tailored CV and applied for a couple of choice looking opportunities selling brands I respected. Responses were typically "thanks but no thanks" but then a company saw past the obvious experience issue and invited me for interview. I was up against several experienced cycle industry types, so didn't expect much, but low and behold I was offered the job! Fairly quickly though my excitement turned to disappointment as I realised that the salary was just too far below my current earnings to accept the role. Even with some serious belt tightening and no social life I just wouldn't be able to meet my financial commitments. I know you might be thinking "why did he apply if the pay would be too low?" but my current salary was on my application and the advert said "generous package". What I hadn't appreciated (although I'd heard it) is that the cycle industry really does lag behind other market sectors in terms of pay and conditions. So in the end I had to turn it down; I just couldn't expect my wife to give up our goal of buying a house and ever having a holiday again so I could take the job. To be honest I am completely gutted as I now have to accept that I will probably never be able to return to the industry I love (barring a small lottery win) and will be doing jobs that are just "jobs" for the rest of my life. Damn I'm depressed.
Still, my loss is someone else's gain and they are re-advertising the job; it really did seem like a great opportunity and if it wasn't for my mountain of financial commitments I'd be working there now! advert can be found here: http://www.bikebiz.com/jobs/read/territ ... ntatives-2