u/DaBearsSB

My wife, newborn, dog and I might have to move down to Atlanta area within the next month, so we’ve been looking around at places to live.

To be clear the expectation is this wouldn’t be home forever, maybe just a year before setting roots somewhere else down there in a house.

For that reason we’re prioritizing luxury style apartment complexes so we could just get in quick and easy (hopefully).

I would be commuting to midtown, wife would be remote.

Our budget is $3k to $4k a month for a 2b/2bath with AC and in unit laundry.

With the dog and my wife being out on leave, we love the idea of being quickly able to walk to parks or into a downtown of sorts for coffee or a bite.

We’ve zeroed in on Roswell, specifically the Vickers building.

The downtown seems sizeable and cute, there are lots of parks, and the building seems nice enough.

I’m curious if there are any other suburb/ city setups we should be considering?

Below are my current takes on other areas, feel free to challenge me on them if I’m wrong;

Sandy Springs doesn’t seem to have as clear of a downtown to me and has a lot of busy roads, and I get similar vibes from Brookhaven.

No real apartment complexes in downtown Marietta.

Decatur is too far from some of the family/friends we want to be by, but would check boxes.

Alpharetta feels like a nasty commute to midtown.

Is there anywhere else you’d recommend or does this seem like a solid enough plan?

Context - the role is an AE role in LCS for Google Ads.

Might seem like a silly question but I interviewed for a role there a year ago and the recruiter on the first call gave a preamble about how she was going to tell me the exact comp for the role. She asked if I was okay with the numbers to move forward.

I had to pull out of the interview process for personal reasons so I never saw it through to see if you’re able to negotiate at the end of the process.

Anyways I’m back interviewing for a new role now and have my recruiter call this week and I want to prep for this.

Is this basically the opportunity to negotiate? Are you able to negotiate at the end?

Any help would be appreciated!

I’ve been in ad platform sales in big tech for 5 years now. Previously was in account management so like platform expert but still quota’d, in a pod structure with an AE. We crushed, always hit our numbers, made a few president’s clubs.

In the last year I took an internal role as an AE as I’ve always wanted to run my own book. I knew signing into this book that it wasn’t a great situation I was inheriting, but I believe in myself, yada yada.

Coming up on a year now and it’s been rough. I am a big believer in hard work and I don’t ever want to just quit on something. I know that good sellers can make things happen with any book.

But I’m looking around at other AE’s, my old AE and I’m realizing they were in such a better situation. Selling to accounts where our products make sense, companies that are doing well and growing. I’m selling to dying companies that really don’t need our products.

I’ve tried. Hard. For a long time. And it’s messing with my psyche. I can’t seem to make it work. I truly believe I’m good at this, and I’m being told by leadership that I am, but have gotten a shit hand.

So I’m starting to ask is it just time to cut and run or do I stick it out?

Pros of sticking it out are that I have a lot of political capital at this company and tenure. Also they’re reorganizing accounts at the turn of the half so I may get better accounts.

But we’re also doing layoffs yearly now and if shit doesn’t change I’m going to be out in the next year anyways.

How much of this gig is finding a good book/situation that sets you up for success? Is leaving now a loser move or just watching out for myself?