If you have the mentality of grinding for your career then work life balance will not be something you think about much but career progression will be on your mind constantly. Promotion from Associate to Sales rep is very difficult depending your location, almost a deal breaker if you are looking for quick advancement. The politics behind the scenes with the sales leadership of your area can sway who they choose for succession into territories. They will tell you to develop your blind spots while they figure things out. CTAs in this holding pattern can go 3 or 4 years in the CTA role without promotion and need to look country wide to compete for a quota bearing spot which is financially significant (CTA's make about 34% less than CSAs & 42% Less than CSRs). While leadership can be uncertain how they choose to place quota bearing reps, there is a growing number of companies with CSR comp plans and products with similar growth to Intuitive which are targeting hungry CTAs for promotion. So the question these days for a CTA is do you wait to get in a CSA Comp position or take an offer for another org for a CSR Comp position. It's a tough decision.
