LAST EDITED ON Feb-21-03 AT 09:36 PM (EDT)
I read it up to #7, when I got tired of it. To me, it was like reading how to eat. The first dealership was a "Systems House" also known in the East as a Whole Dobbs House. The 2nd dealer, I think was a Saturn Store, and known as a ring job (Rings around Saturn.) Car salesman have an entire language of their own. We can speak an entire long paragraph that utterly nobody would understand.One thing is certain, absolute, and that is we all see to it that our kids study like mad, hit the books like a religion, work when others play, get the best education on earth, go to University and repeat the work ethic allready learned, are driven to achieve (Dean's List) Honor society, etc, etc, graduate and go to graduate school and earn a Master's Degree at the very least, better yet a PHD. if possible. All this, so that they never ever have to say....."What will it take to put you in this car, TODAY?" Every car salesman I know has the most accomplished kids on earth! I think we realize more than anyone the value of a real good education. My own son's grades first semester were 5 "A"s and a C+ & he made Dean's List. He KNOWS that if he gets more than a single "C" that the Jeep comes home!
One car salesman I know has a son who graduated 5th in class in Harvard. Is now in Albert Einstein Med. School, another has 4 kids: 1 a Lawyer another a dermatoligist, the 3rd a financial planner with M.L. and the 4th - his daughter is a GYN at NYU Medical Center in NYC.
The guy I buy my Lincolns from at Maplecrest Son is head of Security Nationwide for a "Big 3" Retailer while his daughter is an attorney in Manhattan. My best friend's son is a professor at a university in Zoology. These just by way of example. Matt wants to be a C.P.A. with a big corportaion and eventually head up their Finance Department. I actually believe he will do it.
Car salesman are savers. They see how broke the rest of the world is by taking all those credit apps, and most are savers, and very tight with the buck. Many have 2nd mortgages on their house, so that their kid can go to private school. ALL car salesmen's wives work!! 100% of them.
Any job dealing with the public is a B##itch! Having an open door and a place where one does NOT have to make a purchase is unique and especially hard. Working 55 hours a week - back-to-back 12 hour days is a grind, also. So, we want our kids to excell.
The guy who wrote that did NOT excell because it was not his REAL job. He was role playing. I think in the real world he would have been pretty good. He was an outsider looking in, so to speak.
Added: At present my income is generated thru my new found advocation and that is as an automotive journalist. I have penned 100's of articles for many car magazines & newspapers. Edmunds is a publication. So I too have had a taste of both sides (I guess why Leo said that I'd Love this article.....) There is absolutly no comparsion as to which job is harder !!!! Selling cars is 75 to 90 percent harder than journalism.....I am at a disadvantage as I am a lousey speller, so I use a professional proof reader who puts everything on computer for me since I have little computer knowledge. But I work when I want to, obvioiusly with the amount of time I spend on LOD!! If I was "on the floor" at a dealer I would NEVER be on the computer. Heck we didn't get to read the morning paper until 10PM at night. (and) I make MORE $$$ now than I did selling! So, publications, writing, etc, nets a bigger income, for less hours which equals less work.
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