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I NEED TO MAKE AT LEAST 150k. ANY ONE KNOW OF ANY MEDICAL SALES OR DEVICE OPENINGS?

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Previous post..congrats...glad you worked you're way up the food chain..you took advantage (or made them) to go forward...unfortunately that next rung from CSO to big pharma has been removed or become much scarcer to grab....for most it's time to look outside of pharma/med for the next step up.
 




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FYI...I started as a "rent a rep" with Innovex a few years ago - with a base of $26k and bonus around $20K - and car allowance of $400. Made sure I busted my ass and got to know the contracted companies management, then after a couple of years they offered a full time position with them.

After two more moves within that company to better divisions I was up to a base of $70k and a bonus of $50k+. Now I'm with a different company with a base over $100K and bonus at $35K. I recently iv'd with a new company in the market and base is $130K and bonus at $40K + company car, etc.

It was the "rent a rep" job that got me here. So, I think you can use this experience, work hard and take on the projects no one else will and be at the $150k point in about 5 years - I did.

(I was a telemarkerter prior pharma making at best $33K in a good year)
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Im just messing with you all. I am still a damn rent a rep. No one will hire me. It blows everyday. I dream of the $$$$ I want to make. No one will consider me for the good positions.
 








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I do not like one thing about my position. NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 








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Anonymous said:
FYI...I started as a "rent a rep" with Innovex a few years ago - with a base of $26k and bonus around $20K - and car allowance of $400. Made sure I busted my ass and got to know the contracted companies management, then after a couple of years they offered a full time position with them.

After two more moves within that company to better divisions I was up to a base of $70k and a bonus of $50k+. Now I'm with a different company with a base over $100K and bonus at $35K. I recently iv'd with a new company in the market and base is $130K and bonus at $40K + company car, etc.

It was the "rent a rep" job that got me here. So, I think you can use this experience, work hard and take on the projects no one else will and be at the $150k point in about 5 years - I did.

(I was a telemarkerter prior pharma making at best $33K in a good year)
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Congrats to you! I get your point, but things are a lot different than they were three years ago. The industry has gone from 170K reps to 100K reps. The simple fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of laid off reps are done in pharma. Based on the total lack of skills or relevance to anything in the real world, most are lucky to be making the 35k that they make in CSO. However, if you are going to make that little, it might make more sense to get an entry level job in another profession. They pay cant be much lower.
 








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What makes more money; CSO or unemployment? If the answer is CSO, you should like that.
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This is the silliest headline I have heard in sometime. I need to make at least 150K a year. That would put you in the top 10% of wage earners in the country. So lets be realistic, over speanding and living beoynd your means is just bad economics. How does the rests of the 90% of wage earners survive, even thouse that live in areas where the cost of living is higher? It's easy, they don't live like a rock star and do the right thing. The person who started this thread must have a little wewe and be insecure. Let me guess they want to drive a Hummer which yells "look at me". What in idiot.
 




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This is the silliest headline I have heard in sometime. I need to make at least 150K a year. That would put you in the top 10% of wage earners in the country. So lets be realistic, over speanding and living beoynd your means is just bad economics. How does the rests of the 90% of wage earners survive, even thouse that live in areas where the cost of living is higher? It's easy, they don't live like a rock star and do the right thing. The person who started this thread must have a little wewe and be insecure. Let me guess they want to drive a Hummer which yells "look at me". What in idiot.
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Some people have goals and aspirations to do their best and be ahead of the rest. The rest are followers and wanna-bees that only dream of success and a top wage. YOU,
 








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I do contract sales for the extra. I own a flooring business where I do both commercial work for builders and residential work with a retail store. I can't pull 200k a year out of flooring business yet, but between that and this I can make what I want plus I am able to pay my storefront employees pretty well.
 




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Some people have goals and aspirations to do their best and be ahead of the rest. The rest are followers and wanna-bees that only dream of success and a top wage. YOU,
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Um read the headline correctly, "I need" not "I want". Who wouldn't want to make 150K plus? Therefore I posted what I did. There is a big difference between need and want.
 




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I do contract sales for the extra. I own a flooring business where I do both commercial work for builders and residential work with a retail store. I can't pull 200k a year out of flooring business yet, but between that and this I can make what I want plus I am able to pay my storefront employees pretty well.
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I lay floors and make millions. I do contract sales on the side. Floorind salesmen use their brains and make the big bucks. I use my brains when I lay a floor not when I talk science and sell medicine, LMFAO.
 




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I lay floors and make millions. I do contract sales on the side. Floorind salesmen use their brains and make the big bucks. I use my brains when I lay a floor not when I talk science and sell medicine, LMFAO.
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The only thing that a drug rep "talks" is to the receptionist when he/she asks if they need samples, and on the rare occasion when they answer in the affirmative when asked if they need a signature. The only thing that a drug rep "sells" is a heaping teaspoon of self-delusion when they try to convince themselves that they are not just glorified caterers and sample-droppers that don't sell a goddamn thing.
 




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I am not making enough to survive on my contract either. This job is as low as it can go. I feel so worthless and humiliated just getting out of bed. It would have been best to have declined and gone to work for the local trash company. Those boys smile and "love" their pay.
 




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Anonymous said:
I am not making enough to survive on my contract either. This job is as low as it can go. I feel so worthless and humiliated just getting out of bed. It would have been best to have declined and gone to work for the local trash company. Those boys smile and "love" their pay.
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Do you really think that another 20K/year would make the pharma job any less worthless and humiliating. No, it will not. It is a worthless job, no matter who you work for, or how much you make. Isn't there a joke somewhere about a guy asking if a woman if she would sleep with him for a million dollars; woman says yes, then he inquires about 10 dollars? She asks with some incredulity, "What kind of woman do you think that I am?" To which he replies, "We have already established that, now we are just haggling over price........"

Go do something else. This isn't getting any better.
 




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Anonymous said:
I am not making enough to survive on my contract either. This job is as low as it can go. I feel so worthless and humiliated just getting out of bed. It would have been best to have declined and gone to work for the local trash company. Those boys smile and "love" their pay.
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The lowest possible !!!! That is for sure.
 




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Anonymous said:
I am not making enough to survive on my contract either. This job is as low as it can go. I feel so worthless and humiliated just getting out of bed. It would have been best to have declined and gone to work for the local trash company. Those boys smile and "love" their pay.
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Wait til it's over, then youll wish u had it.
7 months unemployment here and that's rock bottom
 








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Anonymous said:
Ditto. Worthless sob's everywhere that cannot land a decent job anywhere else. Losers only need apply.
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Well that makes you a loser as well. No doubt these positions are not the best. In fact they are not good at all. The pay does suck, the moral is rock bottom, and most of the reps I work with are the bottom scrapers. But it is a part time deal until I am able to get a high paying real gig. Sucks for all of us.
 




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