Dylan VergaraFounder, The Serial Sales Community · Founder, TSSC

Marine who made $10k/mo in sales shares advice to his younger self

22 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from a YouTube interview, a former Marine who now generates $10,000 per month in sales reflects on the mindset and habits he would tell his younger self to adopt for a smoother, faster career transition. He stresses the importance of having confidence in one’s own abilities, especially when entering unfamiliar fields, and recommends staying in a perpetual student role—continually asking questions, applying newly learned concepts, and trusting that results will exceed modest expectations. The speaker frames these attitudes as the key drivers that allowed him to achieve significant earnings despite having no prior experience.

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What would you tell yourself to make this easier, better, faster, or things like that? Give yourself more faith to things. Like, you know, it's scary for people to make decisions, especially like going into new spaces. This is like career changes for a lot of people. So I think having more faith in your ability, because I didn't think that I was going to come in and make a decent amount of money right off the bat. I was thinking I was going to make a couple extra thousand dollars. You know, for me to come in and not have any experience at all, I just, applied what I learned and asked a lot of questions. As long as you're always going to be a student, things are going to work out for you. You just have to have more faith in yourself. So I think that's probably something that I would tell myself.