Done three years with them. Brainwashing in all but name. Will do serious damage to your future career, not to mention your health and wealth. The only transferable skill you will take with you when you leave will be the ability to clean your own car. It consumed my life and destroyed me. Graduates, don't fall for this one; you'd be far better off with Diageo, Vodafone or any of the other Graduate programmes. Renting cars for a living? You're more intellegent than that.

Leave it all and you will feel the pressure lift off you, as I did from a mental Dublin branch last year. I really had to fluff up the CV to pretend I did more than wash and deliver cars. It's not easy finding a job with ERAC on your CV, you may as well have Four Star Pizza.

And there's no better feeling now to be driving home now at 5 O'Clock and seeing an E-chimp in his/her white shirt driving in the opposite direction in a crappy Almera, going to pick some muppet customer up 9 miles away - who will sit into the back of the car while the E-chimp drives them back to the office. And then goes home at 7:30pm! On the bus!!!!

Running a business? You've all be conned. You're a diploma/degree holding delivery boy!!! Get out and good luck.