A New World

So my blog actually had readers (my friends), and they wanted more stories. I just read over the stories I came up with and they were horrible. It was torture reading them. I know I could delete them, but I thought what the hell. I was trying to be funny when I realized that my friends don't laugh with me but at me. Bitches!

With my new job I call on Neuro, Orthopedic, and General surgeons. Once upon a time, I felt intimidated to speak to any physician, and I would repeat my pitch over and over in my head before speaking. I still do that, but what I practice in my head never comes out. Southerners have a talent of cussing. Those who act like they don't are full of it and have fits in the closet. I'm a medical device sales rep. I'm not a biology major, a medical student, and most of all I'm not a doctor. The training I went to was not equivalent of medical school or any other schooling that would fool me into thinking I was equivalent to a physician. Some reps do think that, though. They think that their training class was equal to the first year of med school. Question: Then why the hell aren't you in med school. Some people really think the physicians see them as peers in the aspect of them practicing medicine. That makes me want to lay in the middle of the interstate. I'm doing my job when I know everything about my product, where to treat, and where not to treat in certain surgeries. Other than that, I'm selling women's clothes on the weekend enjoying my BA in Business.

So every day I'm around these guys who were cheated out of a medical career in some form or fashion. I don't see myself as one of those sales reps. I see myself as one of those sales reps that holds up the walls, is a fly on the wall, gives moral support, whatever to ensure I don't get yelled at. The doctor doesn't ask me for a damn thing, and I prefer it that way. Some reps will know I'm new and come up to me and regurgitate a bunch of shit they've learned in training and over the years to sound smart. Some will just treat me like I'm a sales rep, like I'm normal! It's actually funny to run across arrogant sales reps who are in the same industry as you. Have you ever been to McDonald's and seen one of the cashiers be arrogant to the guy operating the cashier station next to them? Hell no!!! It's the same damn thing! What a complete waste of energy! I bet in a bar fight as those arrogant asses are sent to the ER, they will make a ton of money from the doctors having to use their products to put them back together.

As a woman in this career, I'm over the ego and the misconception that reps are supposed to know as much as the doctor. If you ever have surgery, you might have sales reps in the OR but I promise we dont' touch anything. The physician who studied medicine for 40 years and performed surgery on thousands of patients is in charge of you. A sales rep holds up the wall and makes sure their devices are used correctly. We're not as cool as we think we are!!!