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Technical sales and customer growth also don’t get the cut of sales that usually the actual sales reps do. In general i think sales reps make more money overall but have a much more stressful job and can get axed whenever they underperform for a quarter etc
Having done sales before, I can assure you that it's differently stressful rather than more stressful. Trying to sign a customer for a substantial booking is stressful, but so is deploying a complex change that you can't roll back. There's hard things about every role. Engineers can also be axed at any time for performance. They're fortunate that most companies are bad at measuring that, but they're also subject to t…
Of course all roles have aspects that suck. But for me FTE is so much less stressful than sales - but I make less money. alas