I was AMAB (Assigned Marketing At Business school) and coming out as sales was really stressful. I'm glad someone understands.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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My gay soul died reading it. Great LinkdIn-ish post, very souless.
I never wouldβve imagined someone would come out as Sales. Imagine attending a vendor sponsored event (because of the free food) and you get into a nice conversation with someone, only for them to reveal they are actually sales? The horror! /s
The person and the account are real, but I couldn't find this post on their timeline. However, based on what she has posted, it's totally in line.
this is so insufferable i'm not sure i believe they're real
Thereβs something very wrong with this individual
This likely fake and gay
Fake: nobody loves sales
Gay: came out as gay ten years ago
it also took a whole year apparently...
Sales can never be intrinsic part of someone's identity, can it? What is wrong with certain LI posters? I literally have a blank profile on it.
If youβre in B2B sales Iβd imagine LinkedIn is a useful sales medium. Glad I donβt have to engage in that rat race though.
Sure I agree with that. But, making B2B sales their entire identity even if on LinkedIn is quite a bit much. Also, the insinuation that somehow Sales is a dirty word is not something I can stomach.
I would argue that nothing is ever an intrinsic part of one's identity.
I think there are things society puts a lot of emphasis on, like career or sexual orientation, that are elevated in a way that makes us assume they have to be part of someone's "identity," but that's not some universal law. It's a societal construct.
I like peanut butter sandwiches. I would never say "I identify as a peanut butter sandwich fan." But here's the thing, some people do. There's somebody out there who's got 50 different "PB Sandos 4 Life" Tshirts, and has a YouTube channel dedicated to trying all the different brands of PB, and wants to be buried on the JIF plantation. For that guy, peanut butter sandwiches are part of his identity.
And in the same way there are plenty of gay people (who are born that way, to be clear, I'm not arguing being gay is a choice) for whom their sexual orientation are not part of their "identity." They are unquestionably gay, but don't participate in the larger gay community, and if you asked them who they are, being gay wouldn't be in the top 10 things they say about themselves, any more than most straight people would list "heterosexual" in their top 10 things about themselves.
Now, that's hard in our current societal context, as it puts so much emphasis on who you're sleeping with in a way that drives people who don't "fit the mold" to (very reasonably) band together for solidarity and support, but that doesn't make it intrinsically part of your identity.
All that to say, identity is a tricky thing, and I would argue that it's far too fluid to say that literally anything is intrinsically part of it.