I'm in the Marketing division at Wipro, Mumbai. Dude, first things first. Do you really want to do sales????? It's a f*cked up job and really irksome. Unless you re willing to roam around in the sun and visit all sorts of idiots (customers!) and listen to all sorts of trash (ur customers as well as bosses and collegues) from all sorts of idiots, all day every day, it's not the job for you.
If you are looking at a "Marketing" job, as in a boardroom job where you discuss strategy and all that, wake up. I fell into that and that's why now I need an MBA to get me outta sales and into Marketing!!!!!! 


Mike
Relax pal .. me too used to think on the same lines a year back, that I should be in the driving seat with deciding all strategy and stuff like that ..
but friend one needs to start from the ranks and then rise..
one has to do all this shit or rather know how to deal with this .. in the start so as later he knows how to manage it.
no one is going to give u the command of the machine right from the start unless he is sure that u are the one
if u think MBA would make u do all that .. then think again of doing an MBA .. cos a fresher in MBA also has to do all this .. they also have to visit the market .. take the shit of customer etc etc ... and thats where these IIM mbas lack .. they think they are above all this and prefer to stay awaay from market .. insted foucs on making power point presentations .. and then thats the end of them..
ill give u a very pertinent exmple of this ..
the biggest IT company of the world (revenues wise) ... hmm IBM

his CEO forgetting his name started just like u from ranks and 1973 .. he joined IBM as sales executive .. selling servers and stuff .. exactly the same work u do ... he was from John Hopkins univ ..
the he went on to rise .. headed almost all the departments of IBM .. held various senior posts and now in 2003 is the CEO of the biggest IT company of the world .. drwaing 10 millinons dollars of pay packet per year ...
NO MBA degree he has whats soever
can things get better than this ...
have patience and perseverance
cheers