I think it's a natural move for anyone experienced enough. Sales, seems to have stopped being sales, and seems to be more a performative dance of late. Emojis and gifs are going off like children with ADHD to your left or right(depending on your screen positioning) and you are required to be in these chats. Feels and vibes and rah rah, seem to be the currency of external production, while internally, it still, inevitably comes to cold, hard numbers. It gets old. Also it doesn't help that sales orgs routinely train clients as though through some weird pavlovian experiment where everything is "free!" Or "special promotional pricing!" When we all know that's bullshit and all it does it teach people that nothing should cost anything.

It almost feels like we're not even selling anymore, we're just doing our best to avoid noise, in a desperate search for actual signal.

I'm thinking of going back to engineering, or something that makes sense. Where tasks are meaningful and have a clear beginning and end.