We live in a world where so many people are sales oriented. I suppose in a way I am too. I wonder sometimes what this does to us as people. What we do as we put ourselves out there. When does the selling stop and the living begin. So much of our corporate training is about "how" to connect to people. How to bring them in and make them feel comfortable so we can sell them on our product, idea or service.
If you happen to be one of those golden sales-people, are you capable of turning this off? Or does it become so much of who you are that you simply continue to sell all the time? And no, I don't mean sell your company's product or service. But continue to sell yourself, as that is so much a part of the sales culture.
When would you know the difference? How would you know when you had stopped working the "charm" and had settled into just being you? Or have you just become the consummate seller?
Would you ever wonder why everyone feels at ease in your presence (unless they feel competitive with you)? Would it ever chafe? I suppose I wonder this because I live in this high pressure world of service and sales. Where the time I know that I am closest to just being me, is when I am with family, my dearest friends or just simply alone. But I do wonder, as I meet new people, when does this sales mode slide off and when do the real people come out to play?
Or do they ever manage to? Have we become so entangled with our training and skill sets that it is no longer possible to let this go? With so many people working in precisely these types of jobs - does it ever make you wonder if you would be more certain of who you really are if you made your daily bread by - well - baking bread?(not selling it - just baking it)
If you could have any job that would allow you to be just you - clearly you - what would that be? Would you still be projecting an image of you to perform the job? Or would you be centered and easy to know?
Just wondering..........
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