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2 months ago

Assalamu ‘Alaykum all, career update. This might be a long post so please bear with me. As y’all might know I have done my Btech in CSE (not sure why LOL). It’s not that I don’t like tech or anything, I just can’t keep up with the grind it requires in the current market and honestly I am not a good engineer and that’s okay I have made my peace with it. What I’m actually good at is solving problems, interacting with people, making friends, connecting with people. I can wake up everyday excited to meet new people, discuss ideas, plan new strategies and work on those. Can’t say the same about waking up to open VS code and start writing code that I’m sure an AI can write better than me. For the past two years I have done many freelance works, be it automations, development or else. I have also worked in marketing and sales. The thing I realised about myself is that I enjoy the client interactions part more than the actual work LOL. I stopped forcing myself into a career (engineering) I don’t even enjoy. I am actually quite interested in sales, started looking for any entry level sales role. At first I thought I will join any sales job I get but then after some research, I niched it down to B2B SaaS Sales because that seemed like the best option keeping my background in mind. So here I stand with a CS degree looking to pivot into sales. Talked to some people, got good advice and refined my resume. Finally after two long weeks of applying everywhere, giving interviews and facing rejection I got an offer. The company is a startup that works in AI space and has a good software. I joined as a Growth Executive (B2B SaaS). At first I thought this will just be a cold calling job but to my surprise it’s far better than I expected. Not only outreach, I have to actually give demos, close deals, onboard clients and manage the existing clients. Basically I’ll get the exposure of working as a SDR, BDR, AE and etc all in one. I don’t know if it’s the right decision or not but I enjoy the work and I have a clear roadmap on what I want with my career. I believe in Qadr and whatever Allah has written for me so I’m always at peace Alhamdulillah. If you have any advice or work in the same discipline (B2B SaaS) I would love to connect and hear your insights. Didn’t wanna post this on LinkedIn because the app just sucks and doesn’t feel human. Not sure if people will read this even here but still posting, if you stayed till the end then thank you so much!!