Because sales managers are motivated to make their bonus, some of there are not very good at being transparent and the empowerment piece gets outweighed by constant criticism--this is different from critical feedback. Unless you are in president's club, there is no consistency in your schedule, which makes it so difficult to do volunteer work and even find time to work out. This position will also have you do so much work that is not directly related to being in front of the customer and gets frustrating because you know you are not making any money from the efforts you are putting forth. The trick is to constantly adjust your attitude and know there is a natural wave in commission sales; you are going to have a terrible month, but it will be followed by a much better month because the nature of these sales is widely about being in the right place at the right time.