Advice/thoughts please...career change!?

[wheat]

Ok, im after some advice or thoughts from you guys on what i should do next, or how i can change my career.

In brief i have done.. a mechanics apprenticeship at a high class car dealership, of which i completed nvq/btec level 3.

Aerospace, trained in Non destructive Testing on blades and the like.

A bit of sales inbetween, business to business and door to door.

Workshop Manager at a used car garage for a mate, which lasted a year and folded!!

Back on the spanners, at another high class car garage, working on Porsche's, Ferrari's, Bentley's etc, and finally got a job offer in the Rail industry, sub contracting, which has just ended (2 weeks ago).

So now im 24, and a jobless bum I dont really know what to do, my options so far are:
Re-train - electrician/plumber
Car sales (always wanted to work in a dealership selling brand new cars!)

I need some inspiration from PH...
a) any good ideas on what to do next career wise
b) anyone been in a similar situation and re-trained? How?
c) anyone around Derby/Notts that can help

Andy

[StevieBee]

A salesman with good and hands on technical understanding of what they are selling is rare and tend to carry a far higher premium.

As a salesmen, your earnings will be linked to how much you can sell, There's little limit on this.

As a mechanic, your earnings a linked to how many cars / trains you can fix. There is only so much you can do here.

As a mechanic, you are reliant upon the efforts of the sales team to secure your income and have no influence on this.

As a salesmen, you are reliant upon nobody but yourself.

Just my opinion.

HTH.

[Zaxxon]

Join the forces, train to be a sniper.....reach out and touch someone

[wheat]

StevieBee said:

A salesman with good and hands on technical understanding of what they are selling is rare and tend to carry a far higher premium.

As a salesmen, you are reliant upon nobody but yourself.

Just my opinion.

HTH.

This is why i thought of Car salesman, there cant be that many out there that know the technical side of cars?? On the other hand, it could be a downfall.

I have thought about joining the forces hmmmmmm

[okgo]

you don't need to know anything about cars to sell them, its almost totally redundant.

[StevieBee]

wheat said:

This is why i thought of Car salesman, there cant be that many out there that know the technical side of cars?? On the other hand, it could be a downfall.

Doesn't have to be cars that you sell.

Everything starts with a sale. You appear to have a very good grasp of mechanical engineering so the benefits this brings to selling anything or any service related to mechanical engineering are significant.

[wheat]

Good point SB, from what i have seen though most of them type of 'sales/engineer' jobs are aimed at graduates, unfortunately i dont have anything above an A level or equivelant.

[wheat]

I Love Lamp said:

It's refreshing talking to a salesman who can answer most technical questions you fire at them. It usually shows they understand the product/service and not just a 'fact sheet'.

I do agree, and with doing sales and being technically minded i would probably be quite good, but its getting into that sort of role