Ever wish you chose a different profession?

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Sometimes I do.

Between Companies being sold, going bankrupt, or not living up to their promises when you were hired, it wears on a man.
The highs can be the funnest times of your life and the lows are the worst.
Well here I am between jobs...again.
I was hired at my last company for sales and project managing my jobs until about 2 months ago when my job description suddenly changed.
My manager decided he wanted me to completely take over the residential AOR dept including management, sales, scheduling, permits, quality control, and the occasional warranty service call when our service dept. couldn't get to it which was more often than not.
I tried for a while knowing this wouldn't work without some additional help.
Every time I brought up hiring a project manager to help, the idea was shot down like a SCUD missle in Desert Storm.
His response was that I needed to do whatever it takes to get the job done even if I had to work until midnight every night. Never mind I was only getting paid 6% comission of my sales.
I might have a $50K week and then the next week would be $10K because I was so busy managing those jobs with the slack mechanics (glorified duct hangers) installing them.
I shold've moved to cali and became a porn star!
Have any of you felt like this or am I just a baby?
Is anyone looking for a $1M/yr residential salesman in the Raleigh area???
Thanks for letting me vent...

~The Artist formerly known as Yellow Dot~

[dash]

Yeah ,I went thru similar in the early 70's.Taught me alot about running a business, but mostly how Not to treat coworkers.

I asked a while back is Mike Pr..l , part of that operation,you may have answered and I missed it.

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Mike Prattle?
He works for ARS.
I interviewed there a week ago with him and the sales manager and am awaiting a response.
Strangely enough, I tried to stay away from large companies like them for years, but they seem like the best fit for a salesman like myself.

[dash]

I was thinking Jake left ARS and Mike would have gone with ,is Jake the owner of Yellow Dot,or did I confuse things??

[coolwhip]

I used to tell my guidance councelor in high school that I wanted to be a hitman for the mafia. Ahhh the good ol days.

Hang in there YD!

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Originally posted by dash
I was thinking Jake left ARS and Mike would have gone with ,is Jake the owner of Yellow Dot,or did I confuse things??

Jake used to own Metro which is now ARS.

Jake now owns Yellow Dot along with 2 others.

[tlcartman]

every day i wish i had learned to do something else. thinking about going back to school and becoming an accountant.

[deltavolt]

yeah every damn day i wish i haf been something else but what do you do when you get good at your job and you make more money at this then you could possibly make starting over. Hey i use to work for mr williamson too. i could go on for hours about the slave driving ways at his company of course i know nothing of the yellow dot i moved out of the area long before yellow dot started. the guy has a thing for yellow all his trucks were yellow and he spray painted all his tools yellow i never figured it out. anyhow if you end up working for ars on pylon dr they are [robably still running things as they did when jake was there. i was around when jake sr ran the show and he cared a little more about the people side of things. but yeah every f-n day i wish i were doing something else and i vow that when i don't need the money i'm gone.

[who cares]

I love my job. Boss is idiot but job is great. No nights, no weekends no on call! Best of all no more 2am float alarms from Benton-f***vile. Oh yea no residential calls.

[ryan_the_furnace_guy]

I am mistreated pretty badly. I put up with stuff that no "professional" should have to. I will continue my education and will stay in HVACR. But some day I will either work on "the big stuff" or work for a manufacturer as a tech rep or department head. Or I will start my own company. I will not be beaten down THAT easy.

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Well its coming up on a month being unemployed. This sucks!

Its not cold enough yet to throw everyone into a tailspin.

I had one offer to go back into the field making $25 -$30/hr, but even though the pay is good, I've been in sales the past 4 years and have a strong history now...

A decision will be made by the end of the week.