Completely and entirely burnt out. Don’t know what to do.

Hey y’all.

I don’t know how else to start this other than jumping in - I am completely and utterly finished with sales. I can’t do it anymore. I am currently working in what some consider a cushy job, and I just can’t deal with it anymore. I do account management currently in the hospitality sector, I sell towels and stuff to hotels. Basically every single thing including the art on the walls, coffee in the lobby, and the spigot in the bath. Need to have items, I work in the biggest company for this in the sector, and no prospecting.

I’m good at my job. I grew my 3.1 million dollar portfolio last year into a 4.6 million dollar portfolio this year. I have the most strategic portfolio in this sector at this company for this brand. I make like 40 phone calls and emails per day combined. However… I just cannot take the constant corporate bullshit any longer. Checking in with deals on a weekly basis that take months (or even years) to close, constant micro-managing in ways that I was assured this company totally hates, and now, we’re suddenly going back into office.

But more than that, I have been in sales for nearly two decades. I’ve been a BDR, SDR, AE, ISR, AM, I’ve been in car sales, phone sales, insurance sales, construction sales, home improvement sales, food sales, advertising sales, I’ve worked in the government sector, apartment housing sector, healthcare supplies sector, and now hospitality sector. I’ve been a sales manager in multiple industries, I’ve done cold calling, door to door, “eat your kill” and everything else.

I know everyone says this, but I was always great. If not number 1, I was number 2. I feel now that I would rather drag myself pants-less, taint first through a field of broken glass than to schmooze up to the next big kahuna for even one more millisecond to get my commission. I’m over the big trips and massive hotels and just the general atmosphere of it all. I’m done. I seriously cannot motivate myself to do this anymore.

Problem is, I have a family. They rely on my income. I really don’t think I can do this anymore. I don’t know what to do. I have taken all my time off that I just renewed in January because I went on Christmas vacation and just couldn’t come back. I don’t have a degree. I don’t know what to do.