Complete career change
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Been in Forensic Biology 25 years - 45 yrs old.
Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
Craphouserat said:
Been in Forensic Biology 25 years - 45 yrs old.
Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
In a word, yes.Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
What do you think you would love, specifically?
As someone who got out of the motor trade seven years ago (albeit as a service manager, rather than sales), my opinion is-don’t.
The “cuddly” dealership environment is anything but; it’s a high pressure workplace where you’re only as good as your last month. I’m massively into cars and working with something I found interesting did help to an extent but the corporate politics, stresses and constant downward pressure to hit unattainable targets had a big effect on my home life.
The sales side of things is also very long hours with lots of weekend work.
The “cuddly” dealership environment is anything but; it’s a high pressure workplace where you’re only as good as your last month. I’m massively into cars and working with something I found interesting did help to an extent but the corporate politics, stresses and constant downward pressure to hit unattainable targets had a big effect on my home life.
The sales side of things is also very long hours with lots of weekend work.
itcaptainslow said:
As someone who got out of the motor trade seven years ago (albeit as a service manager, rather than sales), my opinion is-don’t.
The “cuddly” dealership environment is anything but; it’s a high pressure workplace where you’re only as good as your last month. I’m massively into cars and working with something I found interesting did help to an extent but the corporate politics, stresses and constant downward pressure to hit unattainable targets had a big effect on my home life.
The sales side of things is also very long hours with lots of weekend work.
^^The “cuddly” dealership environment is anything but; it’s a high pressure workplace where you’re only as good as your last month. I’m massively into cars and working with something I found interesting did help to an extent but the corporate politics, stresses and constant downward pressure to hit unattainable targets had a big effect on my home life.
The sales side of things is also very long hours with lots of weekend work.
This is largely how I'd see it.
I worked in sales 20 years ago (not cars) and even then it was all about targets and extended warranties.
Dealing with people was actually a pleasant experience and arguably the highlight of the job but also bloody awkward when you've been getting on with someone very well only for a manager to steam in desperate to do the hard sell on whatever add-on makes them the most money that week.
It takes a certain type of character to watch 70 year olds being sold stuff they don't need and I didn't like it so I got out.
I can only imagine that's got worse over the years.
Sorry as I'm not trying to be unduly negative but I think you need to really think about the public side of what you see when you go into that environment as a customer v the business environment behind it all.
Craphouserat said:
Been in Forensic Biology 25 years - 45 yrs old.
Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
And you think that working in a cut throat sales environment will be any better? You've seen the physical, welcome to the mental.Job as a Car Salesman has come up at my local dealership - used them for 20 years for cars, servicing and parts. Great garage - great service and seems like a good place to work. I'd love to work around cars all day.
My current job is good - and pays well. Sales job OTE is slightly above what I'm currently on. However, my mental health hasn't been great the last year-continually dealing with what humans do to each other has worn me down a bit.
Am I mad to even consider applying to my dealership?
michael010389 said:
Is this new or used? If new then now isn't the time to get into this. Look up microchip shortage. Give it at least 6 months to see if the microchip issue is resolved because factory orders are lengthy at the moment.
It's not a "microchip" shortage, it's a "semi-conductor" shortage, completely different things. The media is driving me nuts with this BS at the moment, they have absolutely no idea what they're reporting on. Semi-conductors are in literally every electronic device, digital or analogue, microchip or none..... A diode is a semi-conductor.Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff