First impressions

  • Easy to get in I think I can move into it by say joining ASML as a fresher and see how I can kill with that. Going to US will have to wait for now.

  • Not sure about the skill development

  • apparently easier to get in, no crazy competition.

  • Worst case I could do an MBA and boom, move to other more paying/learning jobs if this doesn’t cut it for me.

My cousin was a mechanical engineer doing heat load calculations in Dubai at the age of 29, he moved into sales and is probably earning 200k$ or more after 15 years of sales experience and tax free in Dubai. He has made crazy money and his lifestyle has completely changed. Right now he has a couple of houses in India and 2 cars and a lavishly spent 3 bedroom apartment. He has a car worth 43000 Euros. And I stick with my estimate that he is making atleast 200k$ without paying any taxes. This means atleast an earning-to-give potential of about 100k$? making around 200k$ without any taxes in Dubai as a result.

Sales in Dubai seems like definitely a fucking lucrative career, with the possibility of growth etc…

  • How much is he actually making? How much can I make in Dubai?

difference between marketing and sales Source

Aim with both is to make revenue for the company. They are closely interlinked with each other. Small companies wont distinguish between the two, but large companies would have clear distinctions for the two.

Marketing includes identifying the needs of the customer producing innovative products and promoting the product through advertisements. It is the task of the sales person to persuade customer to buy the product. Marketing is about making leads or prospects and sales is about converting them.

Marketing is not direct, Sales is really about interpersonal interaction. It involves one-on-one meetings, networking and calls.

Something to be vary about is after 15 years in a country if moving will be useful. In other words am I tied down to my where my connections are situated?

  • ^^

Marketing aims at longer term where as sales pertain to short term goals.

P.S

Need to do other things, didn’t get to finish the article I was reading and write information from that. Need to make more solid goals, right now things are vague for me as to how much work I should put in and so naturally I escape, seeming doing nothing before I publish as that is the easy way out of working a lot more given the time constraints.

But I think I can say with confidence that If I don’t write I don’t research.