Thread: SRP Professions - How about a random poll on what people do for a living?

Personal Support Worker - PSW.

I work in the community taking care of old people, and folks with disabilities.

Old folks feed me so I never go hungry

Originally Posted by Devilpup

I'm moving into the new car business from selling suit. Anyone have any tips?

It's easier for me to tell you the dislikes in a salesman, but I will try both sides. We all want our purchase, typically the second largest purchase we make, to be a joyful experience. You have to be dynamic as static sales tactics just aren't appealing. Some will come in and say they can handle a payment of $xxx, while others like me are only interested in the bottom line on pricing. Know your vehicles you are selling and after the sale/paperwork, give a proper run-thru of the bells & whistles whatever they may be. Don't take advantage of anyone or profile someone. Around these parts a fellow may come to a dealership after work wearing rough clothes in his old beater "work truck" looking for a new truck...profiling him as a waste of time can easily loose you a sale...more than one has lost a sale from me like that. I've returned later in my non-work clothes and was treated very nice...Treat everyone the same & assist everyone in finding what they want/need.


Likes in a car salesman: Honesty, helpful, know the vehicle better than I do, know the rebates, know the pro's and con's of the particular vehicle, know your finance guy & how he works. Buying a new vehicle should be a enjoyable experience. You will also need to know a bit about the competition.

Dislikes in a car salesman: Dishonesty, pushy/stalking, lack of knowledge, financial and waiting games to keep you at the dealership. For me, I like someone who will introduce themselves, ask if I would like some help & go from there. If I say I'd just like to look around, give me your card & let me be...but be available unless you are with another potential customer.

Originally Posted by leadduck

OK, I have no idea what, "Yma darparwn y prif lyfrynnau a ffurflenni cyfarwyddyd yn y Gymraeg, dros yr wythnosau nesaf byddem hefyd yn mudo prif dudalennau safwe newydd Swyddfa’r Tâl-feistr Cyffredinol (yr OPG) i’r Gymraeg" means either. Basically, I'm appointed by the court to make legal decisons for individuals who by virtue of a cognitive disability, lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves. I have to tell you, trying to read this is making me question my own capacity.

I was right (of course ) it is Welsh. Google translate quotes the text as ; Here we provide the main instruction booklets and forms in Welsh, over the next few weeks we would also migrate main pages of new website Office of the Paymaster General

Originally Posted by Sailor

Army (Coastal Jaegers) for years. Then i got transferred to Navy, studied some more and now i've been working about 12 years as NCO/watch keeping engineer in the 6th Missile Squadron.
6 years until retirement. Do not know what i will do when i grow up

I didn't know you were still in the military, I thought you had retired already. As far as what to do when you grow up, when you figure it out, let me know. After 25 years in the Air Force and almost 8 years of retirement, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Oh yeah, I'm a technical writer for a medical software company it keeps me out of the soup lines until I can write the great American novel and/or get a 3 day a week gig teaching college kids to write. I'm also an aspiring graduate student, a lover of a good pipe or cigar and an all around great guy.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

I didn't know you were still in the military, I thought you had retired already. As far as what to do when you grow up, when you figure it out, let me know. After 25 years in the Air Force and almost 8 years of retirement, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Oh yeah, I'm a technical writer for a medical software company it keeps me out of the soup lines until I can write the great American novel and/or get a 3 day a week gig teaching college kids to write. I'm also an aspiring graduate student, a lover of a good pipe or cigar and an all around great guy.

Still have about 6 years (todays's count is 2251 days, i'm counting them) to go
At the times i enlisted the age of retirement was 25 years of service for nco's. Then it changed during the years and became 25 of service but not before the age of 48. Then it changed again and became 25 of service but not before the age of 55. Feel like someone has pissed into my meal. Damn if they still change it. There's been talks.

However, if i'm about to retire at the age of 55 that will be 8 years before my wife. She ain't gonna watch me staying lazy at home so probably i have to find some new work. Luckily there's currently a huge lack of licensed truckers and also merchant navy and power stations has a lack of licensed engineers so probably i'll try to find something from those careers.

Now thinking all these years went so damn fast. I never planned or was even much interested to join the military (my family was already in the military so i somewhat knew what it was about). I wanted to get to university and study either folkloristics, history or maybe astronomy. However, back then we had just built or house and my wife had started in university so i thought there's is no way that we both could study without any incomes.
Who knows what i'll become when i grow up.

Originally Posted by Sailor

Still have about 6 years (todays's count is 2251 days, i'm counting them) to go
At the times i enlisted the age of retirement was 25 years of service for nco's. Then it changed during the years and became 25 of service but not before the age of 48. Then it changed again and became 25 of service but not before the age of 55. Feel like someone has pissed into my meal. Damn if they still change it. There's been talks.

However, if i'm about to retire at the age of 55 that will be 8 years before my wife. She ain't gonna watch me staying lazy at home so probably i have to find some new work. Luckily there's currently a huge lack of licensed truckers and also merchant navy and power stations has a lack of licensed engineers so probably i'll try to find something from those careers.

Now thinking all these years went so damn fast. I never planned or was even much interested to join the military (my family was already in the military so i somewhat knew what it was about). I wanted to get to university and study either folkloristics, history or maybe astronomy. However, back then we had just built or house and my wife had started in university so i thought there's is no way that we both could study without any incomes.
Who knows what i'll become when i grow up.

Well, it's a bit like astronomy watching your own stars rushing across the sky RBS-15 style!

Oh how does one define a job? Mostly I say I drive a forklift when people ask me what I do for a living. It's easy and quick, two things that are important considering mostly I'm asked this when there's alcohol involved.

But for a longer story I work in the shipping and receiving warehouse of a precious metals recycling plant. We receive everything from catalytic converters off cars to raw ore to be processed and refined. Kinda fun to say I get to handle millions of dollars worth of precious metal every day.

Originally Posted by shooter74743

It's easier for me to tell you the dislikes in a salesman, but I will try both sides. We all want our purchase, typically the second largest purchase we make, to be a joyful experience. You have to be dynamic as static sales tactics just aren't appealing. Some will come in and say they can handle a payment of $xxx, while others like me are only interested in the bottom line on pricing. Know your vehicles you are selling and after the sale/paperwork, give a proper run-thru of the bells & whistles whatever they may be. Don't take advantage of anyone or profile someone. Around these parts a fellow may come to a dealership after work wearing rough clothes in his old beater "work truck" looking for a new truck...profiling him as a waste of time can easily loose you a sale...more than one has lost a sale from me like that. I've returned later in my non-work clothes and was treated very nice...Treat everyone the same & assist everyone in finding what they want/need.


Likes in a car salesman: Honesty, helpful, know the vehicle better than I do, know the rebates, know the pro's and con's of the particular vehicle, know your finance guy & how he works. Buying a new vehicle should be a enjoyable experience. You will also need to know a bit about the competition.

Dislikes in a car salesman: Dishonesty, pushy/stalking, lack of knowledge, financial and waiting games to keep you at the dealership. For me, I like someone who will introduce themselves, ask if I would like some help & go from there. If I say I'd just like to look around, give me your card & let me be...but be available unless you are with another potential customer.

Get the audio or hard copy book called The Art of Closing the Sale by Brian Tracy. Learn it, live it.
Never listen to anything in your vehicle other than sales related audio books when you're travelling.
Practice, practice, practice handling objections.
Commit to yourself to be better and achieve more than your co-workers by working harder than they do and continually work to hone your skills (audio books and practice are great for this).
Top athletes work continuously at their sport.
The world is rife with "salesmen" who do nothing in the order of bettering themselves at what they do (learn learn learn).
A great salesman will leave someone like Shooter74743 wanting to hug him when Shooter drives off the lot with what he wants.

We all "want" to buy something; however, we are all also ingrained with an instinctual reservation against parting with something we have (money). It's a push and pull at war in our subconscious mind. A good salesman identifies our needs and helps us through/past our instinctual buying hesitation to end up with what we want.

Sales is fascinating.

Chris L

Software Engineer for the last almost 21 years, thought my job description reads more like sw designer/programmer/tester/configuration manager/systems admin/chief cook and bottle washer.