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* am batman
writes:Thanks for reading :) I have been working for a small but successful firm for 4 years - i was hired as a new business manager and was promised that i would spend a lot of my time out and about visiting clients. I am now 30 years old. I started off working over the phone and 4 years later i am still doing that. I have been very successful and set up meetings for my managers to meet clients that have turned into deals, a lot of money. I have always worked in sales and i have asked my managers time and time again to let me come to client visits as i get so bored just making phone calls day after day. This has been ignored but 4 months ago, a new guy started who is just a douche. He seems to think he is my boss, trying to tell me how to do my job, and what sucks the most is, he gets to go on all the client visits while yet again, i am stuck in the office. I am bored beyond belief that i just come in now and don't even bother making calls...all my motivation has gone. I have been offered a job with another company and it will be visiting clients, and i get a company car and it's paying me 9000 pounds more a year - i am on a 21 k basic right now. I know it's a good opportunity but im slightly scared, as i have been where i am for a long time. If you were me, is it normal to feel this and would you leave? thank you
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reader, StarryEyes101 +, writes (14 August 2012):
 When will you have another opportunity like this? You shouldn't think about it! Just drop it and go. It's obvious you will be scared... Just like the first day at a new school. How long were you nervous for then? The day? Yup, it won't last long!
Good Luck :)
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 August 2012): go for it! its normal to be worried about the change but even if it goes wrong at least you will have tried something new and pushed yourself instead of being stuck in the same old routine that you have got sick of and is going nowhere. What's the point in opportunities appearing if you don't take them?
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reader, Danielepew  +, writes (14 August 2012):
 Normal. But you're a salesman, so risk-taking is part of you.
The company won't get you have direct contact with the customers because they wouldn't have a business if they didn't have customers. If I were you, I wouldn't even expect them to let you meet with them. If the other company offers you a better salary and you're not happy in this one, go for it.
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reader, oldbag +, writes (14 August 2012):
 Hi
Yes I would leave like shot, not just because of the money and car, but to feel valued as an employee. A company that sees and utilises my potential.
Ofcourse its going to be different, new people and such like, but if its out meeting clients you want and not a job doing telesales forever, you have to take the plunge.
Congratulatins.
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