viable jobs in automotive industry ? sales job training ?
with my engineering degree at monash uni (vic) currently goin down the
plughole, (still could be saved, but i want to explore other options first).
What other options could i have in the automotive industry? Motor Mechanic?
Panel Beater? Car Salesman? (i was also thinking of doing a marketing degree
and getting into sales)
Something hopefully that i can pay the bills and support a family on too.
looking forward to hear some input from people in the industry.
-With half a degree you could always become a 'consultant' to the gumbiment
on road safety issues or sumfin and charge them $150 an hour to talk shit.
Or you could become a car salesman and get paid a lot less to do the same thing.
(talk shit that is).
Seriously though, if you know anything at all about cars, you don't want to
work as a grunt somewhere, lash out and try something. you might just be
good at it.
-Or, you could skip the marketing degree, and still get into sales.
I wouldn't go for car sales, though, if I were you. Although you'll
get pretty good training on how to close a sale, your career options
will be somewhat limited after that.
Better to get a job as an internal sales person with a supplier to the
car industry, if that's the direction you want to go.
"Internal sales" you ask? Simply put, an "internal" sales person
stays indoors, and handles sales enquiries either on the phone, or
"over the counter". Whereas an "external" sales position is your
basic sales rep - you go out and meet customers on their premises.
Qualifications needed vary - some technical sales roles will require
that engineering degree you're not enjoying. And a quick hint - those
"must have eng. degree" sales jobs are some of the best paying jobs
that you'll get, straight out of uni. So, if a career in sales is
what you have in mind, maybe that degree is what you'll want, after
all. Having said that, you can get decent sales roles without the
degree, too. But in the automotive industry, they'll be less mentally
challenging, as a rule. If you want more advice, I'll happily respond
to an email.