A top performing sales person will make more money than a top performing logistics manager.
But money is an external motivator. Internal motivators are best when considering a career move.
Where do your passions lie? Do you enjoy the hustle of the deal, the financial P&L impact of a promotional venture, the intricacies of forecasting and the pressure to close the gap between forecast and budget all while executing your sales plan and making a customer happy? If so, you have a future in sales.
Or do your passions lie in finding and exploiting bottlenecks? In finding resource (land/labor/capital) constraints that prevent optimal efficiencies in scale and scope? In maximizing the marginal economic utility of the resources you have at play? Do you relish the pressure of being the person on the front-line ensuring that the customer gets what they need, when they need it, all while ensuring you do it for as low a cost as possible while managing multiple vendor communities? If so, you have a future in logistics.
Do what you love, and you'll be great at it. And the money will take care of itself if you truly are passionate and great.
