So we know sales people can’t drive anything nice because their customers are all ignorant of automotive values and will assume anything used & luxury means you HAD to rip someone off to be able to afford it…
… but I also think auto mechanics have it rough. Just like veterinarians who take the job because they love animals but end up “putting them to sleep” (killing them) all day long, mechanics work all day on other people’s cars and then are left with no time or desire to work on their own.
I work in parts. The parts deptartment is like the one girl in the gang bang of 10 dudes. We get gangbanged all day in here by techs, customers on the phone. Everyone thinks the job is so easy, but after dealing with the techs all day. I want nothing to do with my car.
Any office job where when word somehow gets out that you’re into cars even a little bit, EVERYONE then comes to you with their absurd ?'s about cars, how to fix them, where to buy them, where to take them, etc…and THEN have the audacity to just ignore your advice (that you were annoyed about having to give in the first place, but did anyways because they were maybe in a higher position than you) completely, and do the total opposite…
This makes me think how much better it would be if I never got into them…
Agree with this. I spent a year in a garage before going to school and I found I had way less interest to do anything on my car/anything fun car related. You spend all day fighting with someone else’s POS and just get tired of it. Takes what you used to do for fun and makes it…not fun lol
F my life. A guy I work with did it right though. He bought an 80’s Corvette shell. It has a built motor from a boat in it. The entire car is aftermarket/custom and is super fast. His customers don’t think that it is a 60K car but it easily is.
I still hate that I can not get what I want and drive it all the time. I can get what I want but then I will have to pay for and insure 3 cars.
I think that the worst job for this is as a small business owner. If you have a few employees that you are paying 8-10 per hour and you are rolling up in a 100K Porsche I think that it may cause a bit of dissension.
“My car makes this ticking noise when turning left but only when going over 55 but it’s not a ticking noise as much as it’s a chirping and not some much over 55 as much as when I’m backing out of my driveway and my engine light has been on for 6 months now and it smells like baby powder when I honk my horn twice…what’s wrong?”
“was your seat belt bucked…?..Check that and let me know”
what you cannot convince people of, or wouldnt have the opportunity to, is that we tend to spend a disproportionately high percentage of our income on cars…
therefore, if you’re in an income bracket where the average dude has a $30k car and you go buy a $60k car everyone will assume you’re actually in an income bracket that is 50% - 100% higher…
My car payments trump my mortgage by enough to buy another small house…
Even if you have an opportunity to tell someone that, they still keep an image in the back of their mind that you are driving an infiniti and they are driving a civic. It is 100% impossible to overcome if the other person doesn’t have their own expensive hobby.
Random story: At a company I used to work for (about 60 or so employees at the time) the owner sent out a notice that effectively froze wages indefinitely due to the company’s struggling financial situation. The next day he came to work in a brand new Lexus SC430 which had just come out at the time. I am not exaggerating this. It was actually the following day. Idiot.
LoL Gotta pay in CASH. I love my only dept being my mortgage.
When I worked at Big D Tire. Closing at 6pm today, and its 5.50 great!! Its winter and we’re cold and ready to leave. Joe a$$hole rolls up in his f’in dually and wants 6 new tires. You mother f’er. LoL
My old company did the same. We used to always get $500-750 (depending on position) as a Christmas bonus. (we only got one bonus a year as a Christmas bonus)
I think there were 17 people in the shop, maybe 6-7 in the office.
Last year they said they company did not do well enough to give out a bonus because of all the overtime that was handed out. A month later the supervisors got new malibus (I assume they renewed the lease on the 2 they had at the time), then about a week after that the owner shows up with a new range rover.
Coincidence perhaps… But it drove the wedge a bit deeper dividing up the shop/front end.
I’m glad I’m not there anymore.
Most people in sales have some outlet for their extra cash - if its not nice cars, its a second or third home, airplane, vacations, etc. If you are a car person I think any job could make it hard if you show up everyday in what people perceive as an ‘expensive’ car. Leave that at home and drive your DD to and from work. If you have money, you shouldn’t be driving a 100k to and from work everyday anyways.
being in car sales… it was hard explaining to someone why the camry was the perfect car for them, but when they asked what i drove I had to explain why i didnt drive a Toyota lol
just got a job with verizon wireless so I am hoping thats a job where i really wont have to worry about what car i drive