The door isn't closed. It's just unmarked.
Medical device sales pays like a profession - Glassdoor puts average total compensation near $157k (Dec 2025) - and it keeps hiring people who started on retail floors, in gyms, and on car lots. What it doesn't do is explain how to get in.
This honest field guide maps the unmarked door: how the associate-rep route actually works, how to translate B2C floor skills into the language hiring managers screen for, how to build the brag book, survive the interview gauntlet, and hold your own in your first 90 days.
No hype and no promises: entry pay is real money but not TikTok money, the hours are earned, and every figure in this book carries its source and date. What you'll have is a researched, step-by-step campaign to fight for the seat.
You've already sold face to face. Now sell where it counts.
Part of The Field Guides from Empire Publishing: researched, honest, no-fabrication career guides with a concrete "Do This Now" action in every chapter.