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[sunehri]

How does a former professional baseball player make the jump from mortgage sales to a more stable sales career. I have been in the mortgage business for two years. Sales and the industry are down and I need to make a change. My only relevant sales experience is in mortgages, but I want to get into the pharma-medical sales industry. Any tips on how to land a great sales job for a tall handsome former professional baseball player?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I suppose you apply. Use Monster.com and look around.

 

[kirbsam]

i would assume you would go about it the same way as someone who didnt play professional baseball.

 

[barkley]

seems like when they are advertising around here they want someone with at least a bachelor's degree in some kind of science and so many years of direct sales. when we lived in the san francisco bay area it seemed like the companies were pretty selective in the background and education (named specific degrees).

do a google search.

 

[okeydokey]

I'm not sure what being a former baseball player have to do with changing sales jobs?

 

[kirbsam]

since the average major league salary is roughly 2 million per year, i have to assume that you were not good enough to make that kind of money otherwise you would not need another job. if that is the case, i dont think being a former professional ball player would be something to brag about. but i did find your post very humorous. i assume it was a joke. if it wasnt, sorry to be so offensive.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

My dh is a salesperson, through and through. He loves it.

The fact that you are not wheeling and dealing to get where you want is not a good indicator of a salesperson.

It takes a certain attitude to be in a sales job. The first thing you have to sell is yourself.

 

[DrCavin]

since the average major league salary is roughly 2 million per year, i have to assume that you were not good enough to make that kind of money otherwise you would not need another job. if that is the case, i dont think being a former professional ball player would be something to brag about. but i did find your post very humorous. i assume it was a joke. if it wasnt, sorry to be so offensive.

Well IF the OP was in MLB the league minimum is $390K a year for 2008. BUT if he was in the minors, those players get paid squat. I wish I had been "not good enough" to even play minor league baseball, I only made it to the college level.

Mortgage business maybe down now, but it will eventually pick up. Good luck in your career change if you do decide switch.

 

[hucifer]

i would assume you would go about it the same way as someone who didnt play professional baseball.

 

[momrek06]

How does a former professional baseball player make the jump from mortgage sales to a more stable sales career. I have been in the mortgage business for two years. Sales and the industry are down and I need to make a change. My only relevant sales experience is in mortgages, but I want to get into the pharma-medical sales industry. Any tips on how to land a great sales job for a tall handsome former professional baseball player?

Oh, oh......do tell us.......who are you???

 

[Dan Murphy]

Oh, oh......do tell us.......who are you???

.......tall handsome former professional baseball player?

That narrows it down.

 

[RitaE]

Pharmaceutical Sales?

Sorry, I heard they like to hire former cheerleaders, not former professional baseball players.

Make you could sell used Toyotas instead?

 

[zalansky]

Am I the only one who noticed this is the OP's first post?

 

[RitaE]

Am I the only one who noticed this is the OP's first post?

You sound like you think it is really weird that a tall, handsome, former professional baseball player would come to a Disney Travel board to ask how to transfer from Mortgage Sales to Medical Sales.

What?

 

[Magic Mom]

Any tips on how to land a great sales job for a tall handsome former professional baseball player?

I think you should lead your cover letter and resume with this sentence.

 

[Magic Mom]

My dh is a salesperson, through and through. He loves it.

But is he a tall handsome former professional (lord that's a long title), ball player? Cuz that's what's really important.

 

[powellrj]

My old boss was a pro baseball player many years ago. He is in his 50's so he played back when ball players had other jobs in the off season. He even has a world series ring, but alas, he wasn't anyone famous.

The ring is a cool conversation starter and the guys he called on really thought it was neat, but I unless you sell something that has a big sports guy base, I don't think the fact that you were a major league player has much pull anymore.

In my town, there is a former Hall of Fame player, I mean one of the "biggie greats" that if you are a Dodgers fan of the yesteryear you would have heard of him because he was a really famous pitcher. I don't know the guy, but I do know that he has said he has always had to have another job because the guys that played back then never made the kind of money they do now. He was a banker when he retired and in the off season. I had to call on him once to arrange a charity event and I had to call him at his bank job!