What a Sales Engineer is NOT


Since the job title Sales Engineer (Wikipedia entry I created) is new, I see employers confusing the hell out of this role. I just had to post about it in the hopes that at least one employer or head hunter will realize how they are making things for real Sales Engineers worse by doing so.

When an HR professional, recruiter, or head hunter puts the title “Sales Engineer” on a job description that isn’t, it makes my job (and those of other real Sales Engineers) much, much harder. PLEASE stop doing this.
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[Poor] Traffic Psychology

This has been a long time coming. As a Sales Engineer, I spend a LOT of time on the road. I can’t even estimate how many hundred thousand miles I’ve driven. I’ve been a passenger in every kind of vehicle, too. After a while, if you keep your eyes open, you start to see patterns.

There are habits that I have seen all over the world in drivers. Habits that drive me insane, that is. There are a few scenarios that I have seen over and over again, and I am convinced that drivers are not aware that they are doing them.
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