What do you guys do for a living?

[Dauphin]

Theres more to it than numbers

Originally posted by Snapcase
Yeah, you would laugh, wouldn't you. Chartered accountancy and Physics have a lot in common... Both practically scream "menial math-based loser", for instance.

I'm not an actuary.

[Provost Harrison]

No, he's in the far more exciting and dynamic career of accountancy

[TCO]

Originally posted by ravagon
Physicist (Nuc) who's eking out a humble living ( )doing marine seismic data processing.

Interesting. I thought you were some kind of liberal arts type...good writer, etc.

I worked at NRaD for a summer (Navy lab with lots of oceonography stuff...)

[Urban Ranger]

In transition.

I used to do computer networking stuff, administration, achitecture, security, etc. Will soon be CTO of a company in data security and computer forensics.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
No, he's in the far more exciting and dynamic career of accountancy

Chartered accountancy is far more diverse and interesting than plain old accounting/bookkeeping. For starters, it is not an "office job", in the past few months I have been in my office a grand total of 12 hours. *awaits sarcastic comment*. The rest of the time has been spent at various location - farms, factories, ice rinks, airports, ect, I have even been to do work for several public houses . Which I think is far more interesting than being stuck in the same place all the time.

[SuperSneak]

Hi Orange...life is good, I guess yours isn't so hot 'cause of that beeeeatch, eh? Well, college is the best place to remedy that heartache, m'boy. Go get some on ya!

Actually, as I look at my business card, my official title is "Internet Sales Manager", which means I get all of my auto leads from our company website.
They started me out selling Mazdas and Hyundais in February, and I've become a bit of the golden boy, having sold 10 cars in my second month and am now stuck on 11.5 in my third. The average salesperson who's been doing this for a while gets out about 6 a month.
Due to that, they moved me to the Toyota dealership, where my margins are much bigger and my co-workers much more professional. My commission is 25% of the dealer's front end gross profit, along with 25% of the manufacturer's holdback. Here's what I've done this month, for those of you who might wonder what auto sales paychecks look like:
#1 Mazda Miata, Special Edition. Very rich gay man who is semi-retired dot.commer from Seattle with a boatload of stocks,etc.
My take: $708.50
#2 Hyundai Elantra GT. *****y ***** who has Jesus messages on her answering machine. $136.38
#3 Used Corolla. Guy was totally hooped (upside down/negative equity) in his trade. He was like 40 and his dad still co-signed...looooooooser. $20.75 take...ouch.
#4 1998 Saab 900. Sold it to my cousin. Could have made more. $499.75
#5 Toyota Tundra. Nice guy who didn't seem to care about cost too much...sold it for sticker...$750.50. Yowza!
#6 Mazda Protege. Nice little car...not a bad commission...$211.50. Easy sale.
#7 Poor couple getting into a new Corolla base model...negotiated my ass off...$116.75.
#8 New Hyundai Santa Fe. Nice lady with a full beard...made her daughter look cute...$379.75.
#8.5 Split deal on a Sedona mini van. $50. Ouch.
#9.5 Some guy who had me in a price war with three other net agents...tiny deal on a car (4Runner) that is usually pretty good margin-wise. $269.25.
#10.5 The whopper....the king daddy...nice little old lady who we turned onto a much nicer car than she was thinking of...factory demo with huge margin...my take...$1194.
#11.5 Some financial guru who knew everything about dealer cost...sold him a Mazda Millenia S. $159.
Pay this month: $4496.13 before taxes.
Not too bad...and the summer should be rocking....if nothing else, I'm saving up a downpayment on a house and getting something else when the economy improves.
Or moving to Australia...one of the two.

Tough way to make a living though.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by GP

Interesting. I thought you were some kind of liberal arts type...good writer, etc.

You really know how to hurt a guy

[Provost Harrison]

I'd get revenge for that ravagon. If someone called me that, I'd be mortally offended

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I'd get revenge for that ravagon. If someone called me that, I'd be mortally offended

*breaks out tactical nukes*

[SuperSneak]

Well, liberal arts is what got me into car sales....grumble grumble...argh.

[ravagon]

Upshot of moving to Oz at the moment would be the exchange rate. It isn't a coincidence that the most recent Star Wars and LotR movies were shot in this part of the world on pretty big budgets. Your 8-odd thousand would rapidly become 15 with pretty much the same purchasing power as it would have in the states (not wrt exports though ).

[Btw before you go investing in Horses harbour bridge we have a nice bell tower in Perth that cost a hundred plus million to build and is worth about 15 grand ]

[TCO]

Rav,

Thought you wrote the column about the camel...

Supe,

Good for you. Glad to see you thriving in a more dynamic sales environment than railcars of chloralkali...

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm surprised at how low the salesman's margins are on car sales.

[MosesPresley]

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