[cantdrv55]

I am currently a territory acct manager and have done really well in the 11 years I've been on the job. I'm responsible for four major product lines, a $19M quota and cover a huge geographic area. I'm busy all the time but I'm getting bored and tired of dealing with "challenges" day in and day out. There is another position opening up soon when the sales rep retires in October. I've been told the job is mine if I want it.

The job will focus on just one product line so I will have to become the local expert on it. The rest of the sales team will rely on me to close the deals involving that product line. The income potential is similar to mine but bad years means I make way less, great years means I can retire that much sooner. The real negative though is that I will only have one revenue stream versus the four I have now. The greater the risk, the bigger the reward.

The dude retiring hasn't really worked the job that much because he's been in retirement mode the past three years. I can look at it two ways; there's lots of potential or I'll be starting from scratch because there's nothing in the 90 day funnel. If I take the job, I'm going to ask for a 6 month draw.

What would you do?