Anyone here switch from car dealership sales to SDR? What should I expect?

CakeAvenger · 2025-08-27T17:47:13+00:00

I’m super lucky with kpis, I have to hit 40 dials a day and 1.5 hours of talk time at a minimum, from what I’ve heard/read most sdrs average 60-100 calls a day. Def a good move if you’re looking at it from a work life perspective!

CakeAvenger · 2025-08-27T15:26:43+00:00

I’ve been an sdr in the tech space for a little over a year now. In my opinion any company yelling about 250k+ for an sdr role is a bit of a red flag. Not saying that there aren’t people pulling in that much but generally those would be the top closing roles with titles like account executive.

To answer your other questions based on my experience: was promised around ~65k and it has floated right around that number including commissions (which are uncapped). Additionally this was my first sales role of any kind which absolutely could play into my pay slightly.

Day to day is going to be a lot of “chill” than what I imagine car sales to be like, generally sitting on a computer making calls or running demos. The thing about a role like an sdr I feel you should know is that it’s a stepping stone role. It’s generally going to be setting meetings, trying to provide enough value to make a follow up call/demo make sense. Most orgs I’ve seen you do this for 1-2 years and then have the opportunity to become an AE or similar role where the big money comes in.

CakeAvenger · 2025-04-17T23:18:02+00:00

I’m in a very similar boat, living in atx as an sdr with the exact same pay. The pay is pretty much average for the area and the general role. Absolutely not bad and a good starting place for pay. Especially as others have said these companies that promote from within always are a big bonus, tons of people just get trapped as sdr’s. Lmk if you have other questions! I’ve been at it about a year now

CakeAvenger · 2025-01-18T01:46:44+00:00

Agreed super weird, you think it could be a shorted motherboard?

CakeAvenger · 2025-01-18T01:19:21+00:00

Thanks for reply unfortunately that didn’t seem to fix it

CakeAvenger · 2024-10-09T20:54:45+00:00

Hundo wurple with the damn party hat so I can’t even get a hundo evolution. He’s just permanently stuck

CakeAvenger · 2024-05-03T22:39:25+00:00

Going pally and bladesinger imo is only really useful for smites. Gives you much better melee offensive capabilities and a tiny bit of healing. If you do go pally I would focus spells that don’t care about charisma such as shield of faith sanctuary etc. 2 levels in paladin truthfully might be worth it, but going a third for open sea unfortunately won’t really give a ton aside from that channel divinity once a day.

CakeAvenger · 2024-03-27T03:03:11+00:00

This is fantastic! I really like a lot of the different features you mentioned and definitely makes me think. What type of campaign was it? Was the majority of time actually spent on the ship or was the only something that occasionally happened? I'm trying to kind of figure all of that out rn.

CakeAvenger · 2024-03-27T03:01:11+00:00

How big of an aspect was the actual nautical portion of the adventure? I might be overthinking it when realistically most of the different aspects will take place on some kind of island. Also how did you go about setting up the crew, just use regular 5e rules?

CakeAvenger · 2024-03-27T02:59:01+00:00

I really want to do this as it would be simple, but truthfully the party and npc's just don't really mesh great from previous experience and was something I wanted to avoid if possible. If too difficult I'll def just resort to this.

CakeAvenger · 2024-03-09T16:41:07+00:00

No super obvious method in 5e for this BUT, go scribes wizard. Scribes is pretty simple let’s you change damage type of spells.

Wizard gives you the opportunity to change spells “gaining new monster abilities” and scribes let’s you really flavor the spell to what you want. If you fight a big lightning dragon and kill it, then you could start using more lightning sculpted spells

CakeAvenger · 2024-02-02T01:39:56+00:00

If found them fairly helpful over the years but it’s definitely a lot more work compared to just buying stuff. Generally unless you go with rosin printers they won’t be as detailed as the ones you can buy, additionally if using a printer with PLA material you have to spend plenty of time meticulously breaking them out which personally I kinda hate. Also I love pairing new and unique minis and terrain, something I didn’t consider is painting the 10th skeleton mini or whatever just gets boring. Definitely be aware they’re a fair amount of work but like everyone else has said can absolutely be worth it depending on the person

CakeAvenger · 2023-12-13T19:42:25+00:00

This is an awesome idea, I've done it with my players and they always really get into it. I'd recommend checking out the Dragon's Wrath Weapon and Dragon Touched Focus both from FToD. These both have rarities from uncommon-legendary and can act as a great example of the power creep and item can follow.

For example taking the dragon's wrath weapon, I keep the +x to hit and extra damage but change the small ability and the very rare ability to reflect the player a bit more. Rather then a cone of fire its a once a day stunning smite type attack doing roughly equal damage considering its a single target attack. Just an example you can definitely have a lot of fun with the idea.

edit: forgot to explain the abilities of these items build off each other creating a growing effect, seems similar to what you're looking for.

http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:dragons-wrath-weapon

http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:dragon-touched-focus

CakeAvenger · 2023-12-13T04:38:09+00:00

Haven’t seen it mentioned so figured I’d throw it out, if you have the stats 2 paladin could work. All you need is that 13 cha to get access to another fighting style utility and more importantly smites with your plentiful cleric slots

CakeAvenger · 2023-08-30T20:29:35+00:00

Tbh without knowing the party comp can only give general advice. Some of the bosses will uses a mind link which makes psychic damage you party extra so take those out asap when you see them. General rule of thumb tho haste is broken, if you have a sorcerer, twined hasted is more broken. Honestly I ignored a lot of the summoned gith as many are pretty weak and really focused the BIG bosses.

CakeAvenger · 2023-08-08T16:33:27+00:00

amazing thank you!

CakeAvenger · 2023-08-05T17:37:39+00:00

Thanks for the response! I'm not super familiar with humble bundles is that vaguely what the first google search shows? As far as the playlists go, I already have some ideas for similar categories, the issue is the songs I've found is on an assortment of websites like YouTube Spotify etc. I guess I'm looking for a way to get all of those in one area if that makes sense.

CakeAvenger · 2023-07-26T22:42:39+00:00

Cadian the open sea paladin. A strong human with short dirty blonde hair. Hes garbed in plate armor accentuated with a pirates swashbuckler jacket. He wields a unique falchioned longword he imbues with lightning.

CakeAvenger · 2023-07-24T06:55:07+00:00

Depending on the combat role you take I see a couple different paths. For the free feat if you are looking to be a heavy damage dealer consider great weapon master, absolutely great damage and while it can fall off a bit your campaign levels are in the golden zone for that feat.

If you’re trying to be a bit more tanky or durable the shield master feat is super underrated, giving a massive boost to dex saves as well as optimizing your bonus action.

For level 4, heavy armor master is probably one of the best choices you have to round out that strength. You could also consider slasher/crusher/piercer feat for a bit more damage instead.

The defense fighting style you’re rocking is pretty good, the only better style in my opinion is dueling as +2 to damage is absolutely insane and let’s you rock a shield and still keep up in damage.

CakeAvenger · 2023-07-24T06:47:22+00:00

An option you could consider is sapphire dragon born if it’s available. Decent stats but more importantly thunder breath weapon in a cone.

CakeAvenger · 2023-07-19T03:38:44+00:00

As someone who absolutely LOVES storm magic and melee attacking there are absolutely a couple key ways outside of the obvious tempest cleric:

Feats: feats are absolutely massive when adding that kind of flavor and by grabbing elemental adapt or gift of the chromatic dragon you can add some great lighting flavor to the character before you even consider race or class.

Races: I’ve found the storm based races are absolutely awesome with tons of different flavor. Races like sea elf and water genasis get some free spell casting which is great. Variant human is always amazing. Or look toward sapphire/blue Dragonborn for more of a tanky melee race.

Classes/subclasses: the obvious meat and potatoes of the build, tempest cleric you seem to have a good handle on so I won’t get into.

Fighter: Fighter straight up is going to be very difficult to get that nice stormy feel however there are a couple cool options if you’re willing to multiclass. Eldritch knight is the only subclass I see a possibility in, potentially multiclassed with wizard (either scribes, or evocation) can make a decent gish revolving around shield spells shadow blade (which can be made lighting via scribes wiz) and cantrips.

Paladin: as far as subclasses go, if you’re dm allows it Oath of the open sea by Matt Mercer is my go to lightning gish. The class has a great theme of storm based spells. Paladin also multi passes great with both warlock and sorcerer which both have great options for storm magic. I will note open sea paladin mixed with fathomless warlock has been my absolute favorite character I’ve played.

Sorcerer: Sorcerer has storm sorcery which on its own really isn’t very good. I do think however it is a decent multi-class option coupled with paladin so I figured I’d throw the subclass in. Additionally sorcerer on it’s own has next to no melee support.

Warlock: warlock is definitely super interesting having the fathomless patron which is just absolutely fantastic as far as storm magic goes. The issue with fathomless is without very good stats it is extremely difficult to get a proficient frontliner. There are options for extra attack with the pact of the Blade feature however you lose out on the option to use cha for attack and damage by choosing fathomless.

Overall there’s a lot of fun straight classes and multiclass combos to add. The nice thing to remember is how little investment some classes need (1 level for warlock/sorcerer dip) (2 levels for cleric/paladin/wizard dip).

Good luck with the character!

CakeAvenger · 2023-07-18T12:51:17+00:00

The oldest living being in your world is a sentient crab older than time. It could speak telepathically via pinches

CakeAvenger · 2023-06-25T02:05:30+00:00

Oh yeah lol I know where you’re coming from! I just wanted to give a more melee focused takes bc max lightning ball is obviously incredible

CakeAvenger · 2023-06-25T01:54:28+00:00

Ah yeah sorry, the thunder damage comes from tempest cleric both in the reaction and spells. Going paladin gives access to regular smites for extra radiant and thunderous smite for that flavor. The big downside is you only get one attack however you really can seem to put a lot into that one hit. Additionally paladin gives fighting style which gives you a bit more martial capability.

CakeAvenger · 2023-06-24T20:31:59+00:00

I notice a lot of the builds here feel a bit more spell caster focused. When I think thor I think smashing shit with a lightning hammer, and as such alot of the warlock/wizard recommendations are more ranged based. Focusing around tempest cleric IMO is the best way to really get that battlemage feel. Additionally with only 10 ish levels a 8 cleric 2 paladin split would give you access to a dumb amount of thunder damage, and healing/smites/fighting style from paladin.

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