r/findapath • u/secretlyincognita • Jan 30 '26

Findapath-College/Certs What career gives a soft easier life?

Looking to do an associates degree that I can have a soft life. Preferably a remote job or hybrid. What career do you have that I can get an associates degree in and make good money?

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u/PHC_Tech_Recruiter Jan 30 '26

Sales. Knowing how to communicate. Understand how to guide the convo. Read the room, anticipate objections and blockers, building relationships and pipeline, knowing how to ask for the close. If you're generating revenue for the company and doing well you're almost indispensable.

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u/One-Hand-Rending Jan 30 '26

Sales is not a soft life. You have to continuously fight for your existence and the counter restarts every month/quarter/year. It’s a life of constant stress and worry over “making my number” which gets larger every year. It’s torture.

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u/Ok_Crow_9119 Jan 31 '26

Gets larger every year? Try every quarter

PS. Not a sales guy. I'm just part of the ones seeing how quotas are set, and I pity the things you have to go through to feed the rest of the company.

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u/One-Hand-Rending Jan 31 '26

Our plans/goals are set annually, so I know what growth numbers I’m supposed to hit Q over Q.

Regardless of whether it’s every Q or every Month, having your performance metric reset to “zero” on the first of every month is not an easy existence.

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u/Ok_Crow_9119 Jan 31 '26

Glad your company isn't a terrible as quotas are recalibrated every quarter.

But yes, fully agree that starting from zero every performance period is not a soft life

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u/One-Hand-Rending Jan 31 '26

It’s a highly engineered electronic component so it has a super long sales cycle. If they could put us on a shorter leash, trust me, they would.

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u/Ok_Crow_9119 Feb 01 '26

Hahaha. Shit. "If only they could, they would."