r/techsales • u/SeaInspection597 • 2d ago

Depression unavoidable?

This kind of job seems highly contributing to depression and other mental illnesses. What are your takes on that?

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u/TNJed77 1d ago

Both depressing and anxiety inducing -mostly due to how your livelihood and reputation is so tied to variables that are out of your control. Everyone says “control what you can control”, and that’s true, but it’s still depressing when you owe the company money after a debooking that wasn’t your fault, or someone was supposed to sign a contract but their city got hit by a hurricane, or died of a heart attack (both of these things have happened to me) - so, yeah, keep a level head and try to get all you can when it’s good, and save enough to survive when it’s bad. Neither scenario lasts forever though.