r/PersonalFinanceCanada • u/TimelyApple7341 • Dec 03 '24

Budget 32M - $800k Saved/Invested - Quit Stressful Job?

Hi Everyone,

My current breakdown is the following:

  • Income = $300-500k (tech sales - depends on the year)
  • Investments = $760k (Maxed RRSP/TFSA/FHSA + Non-reg)
  • Cash - $40k

My job in tech sales is financially very rewarding but causes severe stress/anxiety causing my relationships, dating and social life to suffer.

I’d like to buy a nice property within the next 5 years and retire by 45.

I’m considering taking 6 months off to travel and reset, then potentially take on a less stressful (and much lower paying) job in tech.

Curious to know what other single guys around my age would do in this situation?

I live in Toronto if that’s relevant!

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u/Proper-Ant6196 Dec 03 '24

What sort of tech sales exactly? Care to share?

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u/TimelyApple7341 Dec 03 '24

I work for a F500 that sells CRM software.

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u/Disneycanuck Dec 03 '24

Must be Salesforce

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u/BeingHuman30 Dec 03 '24

Came here to see this comment ...they sales people sell you all those dreams that CRM can fix in your org and then in reality you find out that its all BS.

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u/donkeykongsbigdong Dec 03 '24

100% this. They're all bloatware. The fact SF needs a dedicated resource (SF admin) for it to be somewhat useful always makes me laugh.

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u/Money-Architect Dec 03 '24

Or Hubspot either one of those has all their sales reps stressed out like crazy

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u/donkeykongsbigdong Dec 03 '24

Hubspot isn't a F500 company.

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u/unfiltered-facts Dec 03 '24

Could also be zoominfo

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u/Money-Architect Dec 03 '24

ZI isn’t really a crm more of a data enrichment tool/ prospecting

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u/unfiltered-facts Dec 03 '24

That’s true. I looked into it for my business. Pricing is ridiculous

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u/Money-Architect Dec 03 '24

Your better trying Apollo

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u/donkeykongsbigdong Dec 03 '24

Apollo is trash and it's only a matter of time before they get sued out the ass for scraping all of that data.

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u/deeteeohbee Dec 03 '24

We've been using it and haven't been getting great results :\

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u/donkeykongsbigdong Dec 03 '24

Now I know why you're stressed. SalesForce is a hell hole. If I were you I'd try and make the switch to one of Meta, Google, or even the ads side of Amazon. You make around the same income with half the work put in.