Taking a gamble in life

[Rhone]

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The gamble comes from the fact that I know absolutely nothing about the mortgage industry. According to the way I interviewed and the computer personality test I took my skills sets and personality fit this position very well.

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Mike, I work for a company that relies very heavily on the work of its sales group. I'm not in that group (thank God, I would be horrible at it), but I interact with them. That group also has very high turnover, and lots of monetary incentives built in to their salaries.

Anyway, my impression is that what makes for success there is not knowledge of the product (that can be learned) but rather it's just "salesmanship." If you can sell lemonade or widgets or whatever, you can probably sell mortgages. You'll learn the details of the industry in time and be just fine. If you can't sell, no amount of content learning is going to help you.

Good luck.