Job search - help

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Registered: 11-01-2005
Job search - help
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Fri, 10-12-2007 - 11:42am

I am in the middle of a job search, and I need some new ideas. I am mid career, looking for a definite step up and a place to grow (and more money/better benefits). For me, that likely means a larger company. (I am in corporate communications - editorial/writing focus right now).

I have been scanning the job boards, Craigs List, trying to go to newtworking events when possible, meeting past colleagues for drinks to ask advice/leads, etc.

What else can I do? How did you all find your current job -- job posting, word of mouth, knew someone at the company? (I know it's a different process for the teachers on the board).

AJ, enjoying life with C.

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Registered: 07-13-2007
Mon, 10-15-2007 - 11:55am

My current goal is not to leap at the first thing that comes along. I think doing your homework and waiting for the right fit is key.


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Other than the fact you are better educated and likely a bit brighter than I am . . LoL. . .. I think you and

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Registered: 11-01-2005
Mon, 10-15-2007 - 12:10pm
>>TG, I am 100% sure you will be a top player in your field. It shows . . its not rocket science, its a balance in a personality . .you have it and it is obvious. That is my ever so humble observation. ((-:<<

Aww, thanks. I'm not sure I believe that most of the time, but I do feel like I am finally moving in the right direction careerwise. I feel like my next step is an important one, and I just don't want to screw it up.

Why can't you do what you do now in Knoxville?

AJ, enjoying life with C.

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Registered: 07-13-2007
Mon, 10-15-2007 - 12:50pm

Aww, thanks. I'm not sure I believe that most of the time,


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Forget me, just look around. (-: Some behavior has predictable results, pretty much every time. (-: In this department you are an easy read kid. (-:


I frankly don't know what my business will look like in a place like Knoxville. I know at the manufacturing level the "volume of sales" from Miami alone would equal Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina all combined. (-: So assuming that the extreme high end of the market might not be as dominant in the area is reasonable. Further, it is also reasonable to assume a single sales person or two will dominate an area, and he / she wont be quitting anytime soon. (-: (Not of lot of guys doing what I do in any market.)


An average appliance package that I sell will be 30K or more. It is the top 5% of income earners nation wide. So to some extent I will have to chose a market . . or shift industries. There is a big difference between hustling washing machines at sears and what I do . . . so it will require some real homework on my part. I haven't pushed yet, you know I have some "issues" with money yet to be resolved . . by early next year I will have a real picture of my bottom line. Then I will be an unstoppable force.


Heck, the 70k is a random number. I want lake front property, and I figure if I don't go crazy and shop it well I might be able to buy that for 150K or so, and on a single income . .70K is about what I would need to be earning at a minim.

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Mon, 10-15-2007 - 1:59pm

Thanks again for all the information oldjarhead.

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Registered: 07-13-2007
Mon, 10-15-2007 - 4:50pm

As for the insurance sales, I was more referring to house/auto insurance than life insurance per say.

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Registered: 04-13-2004
Tue, 10-16-2007 - 2:05am

Those are some really interesting points too - and a good, but rather scary example! :)


I'm thinking insurance probably isn't the best fit for me then. I could tolerate a small amount of cold colling, but definitely not doing it day and night to try and make ends meet. Sure if you're really good at it I imagine the money can be good but it's just not something I think I'd feel comfortable with.


I think furnature sales or maybe even getting back into cellular sales might be the best place for me - or at least a starting point.

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Tue, 10-16-2007 - 9:36am

I think furniture sales or maybe even getting back into cellular sales might


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I have been trying to get my daughter to try furniture. It's retail, so the hours are long, but if for example I need to make a change when I leave Miami . .every city has a market for furniture. (-: It is a little aggressive between fellow sales people. Just have think skin, never be week. (-: It wont take long and it can be kind of fun, can pay quite well, and is a great place to learn. More than a few furniture sales people drive BMW's. (-:


Insurance. Yea . . my experience was what it was. Someone working in an agency as opposed to someone like Prudential might feel differently. However the tracking of adds in the classified thing . . Insurance companies will make up a large chunk of those repeat adds. It can be a good business . .but it's not for me either.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

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