Can Medical Sales Rep Job Choose You?

When my medical sales rep friend makes a remark to my wife on her brand new car, a question immediately triggers in my mind:

Can this job choose the candidate?

We've discovered previously why a pharmaceutical company hires a person.

Actually, when my wife asked my friend about her car, my friend commented that it looks like the car belongs there:

"It looks as if the car chooses the owner," he said ...

... And my wife strongly agrees with the comment.

She was wondering around, going back and forth about the brand of car she should settle with, and finally, one day, another friend made her an offer:

This friend is changing to a BMW, and he's thinking about letting go of his current car, a Toyota sedan. The car is about 17 months with only 13,000 plus kilometers on the mileage.

"That's a pretty good bargain," I told her ...

... "And the car has already been upgraded. Just look at the sporty rim and the DVD player inside. These are great!"

And my wife just proceeds with the ownership transfer.

One more plus points:

She got the car for slightly below market price.

Enough with the car story.

The point I'm trying to make here is:

Could the medical sales job choose the person involves in it?

I look at my career path:

I am somehow 'contrast' to this notion, which is why I can pride myself on starting the Contrarian Sales Technique blog ...

... This blog.

I started off intending to accumulate as much money as I can through a sales career.

I've done that ever since.

The only roadblock now is:

the amount I can gather is much less than it used to be, for the same amount of effort.

But that does not change the fact, that I did not choose medical sales.

After a while, after I did try other sales adventures, for example with MLM and medical devices, I find myself ending up as a pharmaceutical rep once more.

And my memory takes me back to when I attend my first interview with an MNC Pharma ...

... My interviewer straight away took me to another floor, and send me to a medical sales manager.

I went to the diagnostic division of the company for an interview, and yet, I end up as a medical rep. I joined the same diagnostic company after my VSS with Pfizer. I stayed there for two years in which my contract expired, and I end up with a pharmaceutical company.

My wife always tells me that I'm only good at selling pharmaceutical stuff.

Perhaps, all these become the solid foundation for my current belief.

It's still arguably though, but until I find better evidence that I'm cut for another career, I'm comfortable with the belief that the medical sales rep job CHOOSES me.

Did yours too?

Look around this blog for suitable opportunities to join a sales rep position in the medical industry.

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How you could choose an ideal pharma company to join?