$500/week draw, 70 hours a week. You do the math. YOLO. In all seriousness if you're one of those people that have never met a stranger this might a job for you. If you're a true salesman you will make bank and probably enjoy it as well. I think a lot of people don't make it due to the fact that their income is directly dependent on their production, this is a bit of a shock for most people coming from hourly/salaried positions where you get paid regardless. That's why salesman turnover is huge.
Whatever you do, if you make this career change and someone asks you the price of a vehicle do not respond with "what do you want the payment to be". For me that is the most annoying part of dealing with auto sales people.
Seems like the consensus is that I have a one in a million chance of loving being a car salesman. Yesssss!
When I'm like 68 years old and DGAF about anything (even more than now), it would be a blast to try and sell new Porsches or some other high end car. That would be sooooo entertaining. I'd have to get my fake British accent down really good before hand.
I'd suggest to work on the your Deutsch accent instead. Unless you mean Jaguar when you say Porsche....
We go through a lot of cars. Out of the last 10 new cars we bought, i would say me 8 out of them were negotiated strictly through email with a follow-up call. Truecar really makes thing easy, just even as a point of reference, and also can be used to get an even better deal too sometimes. Also, if you can get one of these...i know a buyer
was just kidding bout getting in to it. Ive been in sales for over 10 years and alway been 100% commission. My last gig was salaried though but most in that part of the industry usually is
Never been a car salesman, but I actually like that part of the job. Now it helps if you have a good product to represent. Started in software sales at 22 and I was a programmer so I knew the software inside and out. I think I was making 2500 a month as a programmer and would be getting a raise shortly. Moved into sales in Sept of 86. I don’t recall if I sold anything before December, but in December I closed 6 deals and that would have paid me around $12-18k, depending on the size of them. I got the $2500 base and $1k bonus/commission. So I asked to go straight commission. They did end up giving me a draw against commission at some point. I grossed just over 100k a year for the next few years with them, but I had to cover expenses, which was airfare, hotels and rental cars. Still was a great deal for a 23-26 yr old kid. Well then you need to go sell Jaguar, McClaren or Range Rovers.
Serious ask as you are in HR. Is anyone enjoying their job right now. I’m in Agriculture and it’s tough sledding out there right now. Seems to me there’s folks that are busier with more work they can get done in 80 hours a week and then guys who ain’t doing squat. And everyone is hating whatever the quirks of the jobs are and circumstances are not getting easier
@nigel smith Do Not accept anything from him! You’ll never be able to repay him. At worst, he’ll make you his pit “bitch” and you don’t want that.
Best I can tell, no. No one is enjoying their job and it’s all my fault. For me, I just don’t have the interest in putting up with this same crap or worse for the next 20 years. Between the govt regulations coming down the pike, and the whole “it’s always someone else’s fault” mentality, I’m just over HR ... especially in manufacturing. Just honestly don’t know what else to do after 20 years of this already.
