Fortes fortuna iuvat

I finally took a peek at my site and saw the lack of updates, but yet, the hits keep on coming. Philip Reed over at Edmunds.com has kindly linked a blog post I did and has been worth 2500+ hits.

Interestingly, I'm getting a smattering of hits from things like "auto salesman average salary". I guess if you've searched that I should tell you what I know. The way I did things at the dealership I was expecting to gain significant momentum in year#2 and was hoping to earn approximately $70,000. That is realistic BUT, with a huge downside of not being around home much, being at the dealership on weekends, going in when they call you to say a customer of yours is there and so forth. Time intensive. First year earnings are really going to depend on a lot of things. I didn't make very much, and basically went two months only selling 4 cars. After that I clicked in at 12ish a month which makes a comfortable but not lucrative living. I don't have the exact tally here but I'd guess around 40-45ish. Be wary any potential car sales people that find this page. It's a rough life - not condusive to extra curricular activites, don't expect to get a single weekend off if you wanna earn the bucks. Expect to put on weight, expect to be pushed around and treated quite poorly at times by both management and customers. Of course there are good ones and bad ones and you're experiences may vary. My experience seems to be middle of the road. Philip Reed did a fantastic article which covers the experience nicely.

Onto more news, the dollar store that we own now rolls along quite nicely. I basically spend most of my day either ordering stock or chucking stock onto the shelves. There is, nor will never be a reprieve in that department. I've been thinking a night shift to stock is needed, but now, it feels looming like we have little choice. We get interrupted waaay too much as it is when trying to work during the day. More on that as it develops. It's interesting to see the battle. The independant franchise vs. the corporate giant Dollarama. We will prevail in our local battle hands down that store can't match a franchisees desire and effort. Simply doesn't happen when it's corporate. After all, look at the amount of effort I put in every corporate job I had. I really, couldn't care any less about what I was doing in that office tower and that claims office. Now, I'm focused, motivated and relentless.

My guitar skills, sadly have not been improving as I have not been putting enough time into it. Although I did do a nice Bemused style Rockstar by Nickelback tonight just for kicks. No, it sounds nothing like the original and no it's not seemless and yes I suck. But I had fun.

Zero to report otherwise. Ball hockey is off till next summer, I'm hitting the bowflex every few days and just to geek it up a bit I found an old box absolutely overflowing with my old star trek books from when I was 14. Geek city baby!!!!!

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