Interview

So I went on an adventure today. I went on an interview. I sacrificed my time for some research. The position was for outside sales. It would have been for a young company. A company with young leadership and the promise of a lot of growth. I found it fascinating to sit across the desk and be pumped up. I was not told any lies, and I will give them the fact that they painted a realistic presentation. I was most surprised with the final question. How much do you want this job on a scale of one to ten? Well after only knowing about this company and job for thirty minutes I was not prepared to say ten. That of course was the wrong answer. I knew it was wrong, but I was not going to feed into this bullying. Sales is not about bullying. It is not about craming a product or service down someone's throught. That is how people have regret and you never have return customers. Sales is about a relationship. Building that relationship takes more than thirty minutes. It takes more than something slick to hand over. It will work, and will always work, but it is not the way towards long term successs.