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"He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." Thats how Arthur Miller envisioned a Salesman.
It takes much more than a smile and a shoeshine to succeed in sales today. Still, they
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My Career:
I think that is enough prelude to tell you that I am into sales and marketing. I work for InfoTech Enterprises Ltd., a fast growing software firm in Indias IT corridor, Hyderabad. We have strong competencies in the areas of GIS, engineering design and e-Business, but we are renowned for our GIS capabilities and thats what I sell. At InfoTech, I am the Jack of All Trades, coz I spent a few months in research, few months in marketing, few months in sales, few months in corporate communications and a few months leading teams. So in the bargain I ended up picking a bit of that and learning a bit of this. Hey wait, I guess a good word for that would be multifacted ( Yipee...I think I found the right word for my resume. I will call myself a functional expert). Well it's still early in my career, so who knows where
it will end up. I've switched from two jobs already. After my Masters in
International Business I joined Tata Consultancy Services as a junior Systems Analyst. Soon I realised that I wasnt made
for it. I then landed at Gruppo Minerali's Indian subsidiary Epomin Industries in Chennai. Went around
South East Asia for about an year selling Industrial minerals. Nothing was great about the job except for the travelling. My work: I joined InfoTech in December 2000 and have been doing good for myself, ever since. The most exciting element of my work is the variety of challenges that I face day to day. Our customers are literally in every corner of the world and they all have different needs. The test to our skills lies in finding out where the need exists and pitching in the right service. So we're constantly being challenged by them. I'm excited about my role in this: it's often a difficult road, but there's never a lack of things to do. I have the enthusiasm and the skills to succeed. I am at that stage in my career where I want to move on. I guess I have had enough of fun doing all the odd jobs. Now I want to settle down and learn. I am looking at some good offers in IT marketing and I will soon supply a resume for interested parties.
What I like here:
There are two key things that I love about my job. First and foremost
are the people. I could not have been at a job this long unless I have some great people to work with and I do. Secondly it
is the people I get to meet and work with from all over the world. The experiences I have had and the things that people have
taught me are invaluable. I have had the opportunity to learn a variety of new things along with being involved in old things
that needed to be revamped. In a nutshell, I have the ability to effect change and I like that feeling. It happened in the early stages of my work here when I was working as a research executive (it happens many
times now too). Everyone here seemed to be like a programmed piece of machinery, doing and saying the same things to every
"customer" or client. So, I did it the same way and everything seemed to come out all right. Then, no matter what our
superiors said, my co-workers would not "mouth-off." And to cap it off, the culture
is very conventional and peoples thoughts are outdated. Anything out of the way and people wont join in alright, but try to
dissuade you. It is boring, boring, boring and it wears you down. Which brings me to another point. Having a job sucks
The
Top 10 Signs You Work In Marketing 10. You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways
to improve their look-to-buy ratio. 9. You get all excited when it's Saturday so you can wear casual
clothes to work. 5. You wear gray to work instead of navy blue to make a bold fashion
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. I don't particularly dislike my job, I just
think working in general is pretty dumb. I've decided that I need to be independently wealthy. If you have a lot of money
and you want to give me some I would really like that 
The fact that we feel the need to distinguish ourselves in the workplace is a pretty telling statement about
social convention. I'm perfectly content to just have a place to be and some food to eat and a good book to read or some good
movies or whatever. But the typical Libra that I am, I dont stick on to these thoughts all the time. I sometimes cant resist
the urge to join the rat race and thats how I have been running and running.........
