Dream Crushers

i had first hand experience w/ the DS folks a couple years ago. thankfully, the transaction wasn't consumated and the salesman walked out of his job after alerting me of the potential problems and talking me out of buying the car (it was a TR convertible).

you made a right decision. life is too short to do things where your integrity is constantly a subject of doubt.

i don't know much about car sale as a career but i do know if i were to purchase a vehicle, you are the type of person i'd want to buy from regardless of your age. best of luck to you and your endeavors.


regds,

 

Do a search for "Ferrari salesmen" or some variation of that. There are a couple of good threads that usually start by asking how much they make, but eventually get into the difficulty of breaking into exotic car sales.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but my friend, who is as big of a car enthusiast as anyone, said he could never sell cars at his age (23) even though he is bright, articulate, and a car nut, because customers would not take him seriously. I'd imagine that if that held true for Toyotas, then multiply it tenfold for exotics. We young guys might be able to sell with the best of them, but would you really be surprised if you never got an interview because you were “just a kid?”

By all means try if you can, I just suspect the odds are stacked against you.

 

this is a great post. DS is BS, for lack of a better term. i am in college studying business management, and my goal is to become a car broker, dealing with what i consider the 4 major exotic/luxury brands-Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley and Rolls Royce. I have chatted with the people up at Bentley St. Louis on a number of occasions about this, and they have been very helpful to me. If you want some more info, feel free to drop me a pm, and i can give you some more of my "knowledge>"

 

You went to college and got a 4 year degree, and it will be worth it. One thing folks use VERY EARLY ON in looking for prospective employees is 'college degree y/n', and if the box is checked 'n', you are immediately tossed aside. Trust me, I know this.

In today's world, some companies get 2,000 apps a week for ONE job, they have to narrow it down somehow, and that's an easy first criteria to 'flunk' someone on.
I personally know of an average-sized company (250 employees, 200 million in sales) that advertised for a Marketing Director - and got over 10,000 apps from all over the nation !

If anyone is thinking of dropping out of college - DON'T.

 

Some jobs do require a college degree, but very good experience can make you stand out without it. A lot of college students don't have any real experience and they're just riding their academic "credentials" to get their job. After your first job, employers will only care about your experience, not grades.

With that said, I feel like my degree is worthless. At least to me. It's merely another step one has to take in order to go up (in my case, med school). I would've preferred to do without it. I really didn't learn much in college in my business classes that I felt would help me the slightest. Only my science classes taught me something. Overall, college was overrated from my view. I definitely see why college isn't for everyone. I'm just really tired of all the gen ed classes they make you take and it seemed like an extension of high school with just a few extra courses to put you in a "major."

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I just saw this, lol. I definitely agree. I graduated this past May from the Univ of FL with a degree in Econ. Excellent grades, experience with research, and a lot of volunteer work. I'm taking a year off, too, between now and (hopefully) med school. I wanted to keep myself busy by getting a job. I applied in early May for an economist position in DC, didn't get it. I applied to a few other places, didn't hear back, even when they asked for my resume by word of mouth, they never even followed up with me. I decided to put my job search on hold and study for the MCAT (a week from today is the exam) so I ended up signing up with a job agency. What a joke. All they did was talk down to me and say how I would never get over $13/hr with my degree for a few years. F them. I'm done with the business world, which drives me even more into the field of medicine. College degrees are not worth it if you have to pay for it (I had a full ride, very happy I didn't pay for ****).

 

Well I know a few people who have went to college for more than 10years got the degree but still didn't get the job they worked so hard for and they are currently working in WallMart. Out of all the people I know there's only one person I know that actually made after nearly 6 years.

Me I went to a local cummity college for about 6months after i got out of highschool thinking that this is the place for me and i have waited so long for this and not to long after that I became very unhappy because I felt that i wasn't getting closer to my goals and dreams and found myself settling for less. Im not saying its a bad place its just not for everyone like myself. I enjoyed the automotive/aircraft technology field but i couldn't see myself doing it for the rest of my life.

Right now im in the process of getting my life Insurance license and Srucities and V.A. and have learned so much more than I have in college about investments and how money works. Eventually I will finish what I started but I feel that getting those license's are more important to me.

 

BMW.SauberF1Team,

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I think you are being very wise taking a year off befor Med School. Once you start, it will be at least 7 years befor you get off the merry-go-round. Enjoy the year and do well on the MCAT. Also, I think it's great that you have a buisness degree. I spend some time with High School kids interested in going into medicine and recommend that they look strongly at a buisness major. This will help you out later. Whether we docs like it or not, we practice medicine, but also have to run a buisness.

Best of luck.

Steve

 

Steve, thank you for the advice! I think the main thing that drew me away from business was just the way my college taught the classes. Each class had over 1,000 students so it was all shown through web-based platforms. Little to no interaction with professors (other than e-mail) and mainly memorization of definitions. Of the few classes for my upper level Econ classes, we had 20 students per class. Much better and this is why I still like economics so much. One class I really enjoyed was "the legal environment of business." It was one of the very few classes where we mainly discussed things from the real world and not just text definitions. A lot of stuff about malpractice, too.

I do think that everyone entering college should definitely try something else like you mentioned. I entered still looking at medicine, but wanted to try some options. Other than business, I also did some research work in case something like zoology with PhD work would interest me. I also did some after school counsler work (middle school), which was also very fun.

Thanks for wishing me luck for the MCAT! I just took my last practice exam today so hopefully I can do well on Saturday. I'd be very happy with anything over 30!

-Al

 

I finished my freshman year at Mizzou a couple of months ago, and like a lot of freshmen, I had my resentments. I was taking classes, and sitting there wondering, there is no chance I am ever going to use this in what I want to do. I mean, where does classical mythology come into play when doing business? I really stopped and thought if college was for me, and I was very serious about taking a year off and seeing what "real life" is really like. However, I was able to get accepted to Westminster College, where the classes are maxed out at about 20 students per class, no more 450 student lectures for me! Westminster basically made me see that a lot of other freshman have the same problems I do, and that you just gotta stick through it, and if you still feel the same way after another year, then yes, maybe college isn't for you. On the other hand, the wealthiest man that I know personally, did not even finish high school. I know tons of other people who have become very successful without a degree.