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volinbham said:
University faculty - the we was referring to UAB and our marketing/industrial distribution program. I don't do any placement

the industry needs people - lot of B2B sales jobs out there
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I graduated from UNA in 2013 and have never used my degree... :( I need to get a Return on Investment!
 
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#54
What do you enjoy besides sports? Do you want to work inside or outside? No travel, local travel or lots of travel? Working with your hands or interacting with public or in an office or teaching others or sales?

I'd try to define exactly what it is you like and dislike about your current job and what attributes your ideal job(s) would be. I would say that very few people are employed doing their ideal job, but far too many are doing jobs they loathe.

You seem perfectly positioned for a job change. Why don't you answer some of these questions and post your thoughts back here and we'll try to help you think it through some more.
 
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TnWalker said:
What do you enjoy besides sports? Do you want to work inside or outside? No travel, local travel or lots of travel? Working with your hands or interacting with public or in an office or teaching others or sales?

I'd try to define exactly what it is you like and dislike about your current job and what attributes your ideal job(s) would be. I would say that very few people are employed doing their ideal job, but far too many are doing jobs they loathe.

You seem perfectly positioned for a job change. Why don't you answer some of these questions and post your thoughts back here and we'll try to help you think it through some more.
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I really enjoy working with people and I wouldn’t mind working inside or outside. Traveling limited; but it’s not a horrible thing, maybe 30%. The internet has taken any opportunity for me to make a decent living at a constant rate. Our internet manager (1 guy- w/ 3 assistants) will sell 45 a month and we are limited to scraping the barrel with what’s left over. We have 14 salesman and 1 internet guy in a town of 15k so the lot is practically a waste of time, as they say “the up-bus is gone”. I predict in the near future most vehicle transactions will be done completely online with money back guarantees in such time period. Too much down time is my biggest annoyance. You can only call so many people and send so many letters. The World Wide Web has killed my position and turned us into order takers and not salesman.
 
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There isn’t a better legal thrill then closing a deal. I love sales! I just want to find a career and not a job. For the last 7 years I’ve been depositing check after check waiting for the right opportunity to jump and it looks like maybe it’s me and not the opportunities. I’ve got to just go for it.
 
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allstar34bd said:
There isn’t a better legal thrill then closing a deal. I love sales! I just want to find a career and not a job. For the last 7 years I’ve been depositing check after check waiting for the right opportunity to jump and it looks like maybe it’s me and not the opportunities. I’ve got to just go for it.
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I agree!

Good luck to you with your search. I'm in a similar position where I'm looking to change it up a bit. However, I'm a bit older than you.
 
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allstar34bd said:
There isn’t a better legal thrill then closing a deal. I love sales! I just want to find a career and not a job. For the last 7 years I’ve been depositing check after check waiting for the right opportunity to jump and it looks like maybe it’s me and not the opportunities. I’ve got to just go for it.
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Get a subscription to Automotive News. The classified section might open your eyes to something that appeals to you.

Your experience in the industry might be attractive to companies that are in the industry but not retailers.
 
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allstar34bd said:
I love sports, any sport.. I wish I could find some kind of opportunity that dealt with sports and I could make a decent living doing it. Really, I just have plenty of friends that are catching me in salary and they love their jobs and I’m jealous! When everyone was making 20k a year and I was pushing 3-4x’s that it’s cool; but I’m starting to see that there are other opportunities out there that you can actually enjoy and still make a living. My friend I visited in Houston works in electrical sales; he moved out there 6 months ago from Huntsville Alabama and loves it. I’ve just got to polish my resume and update the LinkedIn profile and start looking! A paycut now, can payoff later I suppose.
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Sports agent. Take some accounting classes and you are in.
 
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As mentioned by others, huge demand these days in blue-collar fields. Doesn't cost that much to get trained either, relative to conventional college. Oil industry has always fascinated me, offshore 30/30, etc.

Good for you to be so young and ahead of the game.
 
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Have you investigated the sports medicine area? Got to be lots of sales job demand there - the technology is improving fast so I think there is a good future for someone ambitious and willing to work hard.
 
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I need to sit down and write all the things I want out of a job and what my goals are. Then just target that area. I’m really open to a lot of things, I just don’t want to be confined to a desk with 25hrs of downtime a week. I need to be busy to thrive.... and by busy... in my town you literally can work your tail off, make calls, send letters and with only 4-5 customers on the lot during a 10hr day and 14 Salesman you run out of work to do.
 
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allstar34bd said:
I need to sit down and write all the things I want out of a job and what my goals are. Then just target that area. I’m really open to a lot of things, I just don’t want to be confined to a desk with 25hrs of downtime a week. I need to be busy to thrive.... and by busy... in my town you literally can work your tail off, make calls, send letters and with only 4-5 customers on the lot during a 10hr day and 14 Salesman you run out of work to do.
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Sales is sales. A salesman can sell ice to eskimos. I sold cars about 40 years ago. The life sucks. Have you considered medical sales?
 
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Your experience in car sales is going to get your foot in the door for almost any other sales job. I highly recommend looking for a software as a solution (SaaS) type sales job. If you want to work in a start up environment check out Angel list.
 
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allstar34bd said:
I need to sit down and write all the things I want out of a job and what my goals are. Then just target that area. I’m really open to a lot of things, I just don’t want to be confined to a desk with 25hrs of downtime a week. I need to be busy to thrive.... and by busy... in my town you literally can work your tail off, make calls, send letters and with only 4-5 customers on the lot during a 10hr day and 14 Salesman you run out of work to do.
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There's your problem. It's not the business but your employer and your market. Some dealers have no qualms over staffing because they are 100% commission.

If all the internet business is going through one person, then get out. If you are in a town of 15k, get out. You're wasting your time. There are great dealers who staff accordingly and allow all staff access to i-leads.
 
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I'm graduating in December with a B.S. in Engineering Tech and have been applying like a madman the last month or so. I have to fulfill an internship prior to graduating, but I'd rather find a job and use that to meet my internship requirements.

Being an adult sucks.
 
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VOLatile said:
I'm graduating in December with a B.S. in Engineering Tech and have been applying like a madman the last month or so. I have to fulfill an internship prior to graduating, but I'd rather find a job and use that to meet my internship requirements.

Being an adult sucks.
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It gets so much easier. By the time you have a wife, kids, a mortgage and two car payments, a recession will hit and you'll have to work for two years on night shift with a cut in pay. Enjoy!
 
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VOLatile said:
I'm graduating in December with a B.S. in Engineering Tech and have been applying like a madman the last month or so. I have to fulfill an internship prior to graduating, but I'd rather find a job and use that to meet my internship requirements.

Being an adult sucks.
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I'm a college student in the same boat. I have good grades, and I'm a year away from graduation but I have to do 2 internships beefore I graduate, but kd rather find a job in the field I'm interested in. I already have a job where I go to school full time and work 40+ hours a week, but its not related to my field at all, and I can't leave my job to move to an unpaid position. Lastly there is no way I can take full time classes, do an internship and work 40 hours and have any kind of sanity left, its tough enough to juggle two of those
 
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Sales has significantly changed. Push selling doesn’t really work anymore unless you’re doing low $ items.
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Sales is always changing and will continue to chance. I've done it for 23 years. Push and pull marketing concepts depend on the industry. The auto business, with the exception of Tesla, is still pushing.
 
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