Then you have experienced the reality of just what your resume means. Pharmaceutical sales is a negative when looking for a real sales job outside pharma. They think we don't sell, which we don't. They think we spend our days working 10-2, catering lunches and just hanging out in hallways, which we do. They know we get paid very well with great benefits for doing very little and they also know that they can't match those salaries even if they wanted to which they don't. They also know we have little in the way of technical skills beyond organizing meals, talking on the phone, computer data entry and don't really influence or impact the sales cycle or revenues. They also know that we can be a huge risk and liability. We wreck our company cars, lose our computers, talk off label, break policy's, become whistle blowers, on and on. Most of us also only have some general non-specific liberal arts or generic business administration degree and aren't much more qualified for the business world than when we were rush chairmen at the frat house which is what we were doing when we found pharma.
But I'm sure there is a lot of demand in this economy for suit wearing caterers, that know how to get someone to sign ( like UPS) for something they are giving away anyway, who want to
work 15 hours a week but expect six figure incomes, car, insurance, computers, lots of free trips and meetings to cool places at 5 star hotels and bonuses all for chatting up a couple of customers a day. There's got to be a huge demand in the outside world for us doesn't there. We'll find similar jobs in no time at all. And somewhere that will be nicer to us too.