I work at a GM dealership that is going to close. Advice wanted on new job and life. Best just to start over

this may sound like rubbish advice, but i'm very serious about it. assuming that you will be getting unemployment, and assuming that you don't have too many financial or familial obligations, take a month or two OFF. sleep in, run a lot, have fun, do all the things you can't do when you're nose to the grindstone. enjoy life. clear your head. and gently start to ask yourself what you really, really WANT to do with the rest of your life. when this question is asked in the middle of the rat race, we rarely get the true answer, but with a clear, relaxed, unstressed mind, the answer might surprise you. look at this as an opportunity, not a setback. good luck.

Find a GAY Silver Spoon Trust Fund Baby and start a running website. You won't make any money nor need to yet you'll be making the rest of us green with envy travelling all over the place without a real job like the rest of us kids of poor white trailer park trash who had to work through college.

Bootsie had good advise actually very good.I worked in the dealership business for 7 yrs.Hated it,move on found a good paying job in the utility gas/elect market with hardly no college.That was 21 yrs ago.Am living well while everybody else is sinking.Look at this as opportunity not a set back.Good luck

I wish everyone in your situation the best.

I bought a GMC Acadia last year and love it. I wish I could do more.

Maybe the unions will disolve and health and pension costs can be subsidized reducing overhead costs and putting American car companies in good, financially competetive footing.

In any event, I like the cars and wish Americans had more confidence in them.

But, switching careers fom the car business is not a bad thing.

Where do you think the people are going to go to buy a car now? For a while the other dealers sales will go up and reach what they where before the credit freeze but eventually they will increase much more and need MORE SALESPEOPLE!!! This is where you come in. If you like to sell cars and are good at it, the other dealers will soon need people.

Have 14 babies and live off the government.

Put them on strict gluten free Kenyan ugali and Kale diet.

Don't let them ever wear any shoes.

Throw them into the swimming pool at age 1 and see which ones are natural swimmers. Make them swim 20 laps everyday since age 1.

Teach them 5 different languages before they turn 3.

Teach them college algebra before they turn 5.

Become an independent contractor in sales. You can make 6 figures. I work from my home, have time to run and have fun.

There are a ton of jobs on the Internet if you just google "independent contractor sales" or "independent sales rep"

The money is slow to come at first, then it picks up speed.

Good Luck.

Thanks everyone for the advice, even the smart a** ones make me smile a little. I am really bummed but trying to look on the bright side. I think I need the month or two off. Let my head clear. Probably I am going to put my house on the market. I just need to start over. As things have eroded at the dealership I have hated going to work most days.

I am pathic right now, posting on LR on a Fri night getting drunk.

Any other ideas? Good places to live? Different career ideas? I thought about getting some type of menial job for awhile so I don't get stale and depressed. Should I go back to school?

I am wide open to any ideas. Thanks again, for making me think someone cares.

To keep it running related I went for an easy 4 mile run to de-stress now my achilles is hurting. Great day for me.

Do you want out of the car business? If not, maybe you could go sell Hondas or Toyotas.

Do a post-bac MS in nursing, then become an NP. Then do consulting.

There's a place where you might find company, it's called Hooverville. It's really where we are all going right now. It might be green and clean.

It doesn't sound so bad. You've got the MBA, the sales experience, the talent, and nothing tying you to your area. There will always be jobs for those who can sell, and salesmen on commission will always have more control over their income than wage-slaves. Assuming you actually like selling, just make it your business over the next little while to sell yourself, nationwide. Try to be positive--you have the opportunity to wipe the slate clean, make a fresh start, and get out of a company that's going down.

One more thing--I'm not sure what your philosophy of work is. And for some of us (teachers, docs, cops), our job IS a major part of our identity. But selling, whether it's cars, computers, or widgets, can just be a means to an end. Your job isn't who you are; it's what you do (and do to the best of your ability) so that you can afford to be who you are. Good luck!

Hey Lost,

Drop me a line at my general email.

Itwaswritten03@yahoo.com

. I can help. Although I cant promise you anything, my company is expanding and could use people with your qualifications. Look fowarding to hearing from you.

-SA

Lost and need help wrote:

I have worked at this GM dealership for 17 years. It is going to close. I need advice on what to do. I am stunned and bitter but I need to move on. I am wide open to any ideas. I have a degree in Economics and a MBA in marketing. I think I am good at selling. I have a little bit of savings and could even go back to school.

I also live in the midwest and I am open to moving. Unemployement and everything is horrible here.

Please help, thanks in advance.

Now thats CHANGE you can believe in. Record unemployment, government taking over businesses, dictating salaries to the private sector, etc....keep putting them Demorats in office.....the worst is yet to come.

I feel for ya, but OBAMA and his ilk dont give a rats ass bout you or the middle class....next time you vote, remember who cost you your job.

As a person who believes that Zionism should be totally inclusive to all religions, I would have never thought that BHO would take the side of the sickoh Rabbis, politicians, and war criminals that run Israel today.

You could start an internet porn site. I was offered a job doing online porn for $40,000 a year. However, I turned it down because the guy in charge of the company produced disgusting sites. I draw the line when it comes to barn yard porn.

I Needs A Job,

You make no sense. I'm 43. Look back through the years of my adult life. What party has been in the White House most my adult life?

I was a buyer for a German supplier and got whacked back in December......nothing but "NEXT". It's as if I've got a Scarlet letter on my resume having "auto" experience.