Here's my situation and I am considering working for enterprise

[We'll pick you up!!]

If the branch hours are 8am to 6pm Mon-Fri take it as about 7:30-7:00ish. On Saturdays, because the branch is understaffed it will seem like more work. Saturdays are seriously the longest 3 hours of your life. 9-12 will be about 8:30-1ish. I was accustomed to working past 1 and the longest I had to stay on a Saturday was till 4 when it closed at 12. You also have to realize, you might only be working at this branch for about 3 months before they move you to another branch where the hours are 9-3 on Saturdays and Sundays, and if it's the airport it's 12 hour shifts, working every weekend and holiday, getting random days in the week off. Again, I don't exaggerate any of this, it's the truth.

As a personal banker my friend made about $70K his first year, but he worked his ass off. I know another person that barely made $40K doing the bare minimum at the bank. The thing that sucks about Enterprise, is that even when you work you ass off (being the top salesman) you don't get paid for it. They base all your hard work on rank and status, not on pay... so that your name could be mentioned in an email sent to the region.

[freeatlast]

There are some other things to consider before you decide to jump to enterprise:

1. You WILL be picking people up. Some may have not bathed in a couple of days. Others will make you wait in the driveway while they finish getting ready. Waiting 20-30 min is no unusual. Expect to be chewed out by your manager when you get back to the branch for taking too long.

2. Expect not to get a lunch. Now, you will be clocked out for one hour but you will more likely get 10 min to scarf down fast food or something you brought. If you work past 6 pm there is a fair bet that your manager will "adjust" your hours in the computer.

3. I am sure you believe in the appliances you sell at Sears. Can you sell damage waiver to people who already have full coverage on their car? What would you be willing to say (or omit) to make these people buy this coverage?

4. I don't know if the lack of a degree with bar you from erac, but at 29 you may be seen as "too old" to learn a new system. I don't remember anyone starting at erac over the age of 25. They will not tell you that your too old, but they may be thinking it.

I agree with he earlier post about finding a recruiter to match you with the right place.

Good luck in whatever you decide. I hope you find what you want. Keep us posted if you don't mind.

[yambag]

35k in enterprise money is really about 27-29k
join the military for four years, get a good mos like air traffic controller
you'll make good money when you get out
get student loans and go to school
either of these options are much better in the long wrong and you are a good age for both.
but don't work at enterprise

[Robert]

It should be apparent that ERAC is no way to go. What city do you live in by the way?

[32AATopIPEandDub]

My advice would be to get into medical sales or move up in retail, such as Hermes or something. Go to Las Vegas. Plenty of retail positions there with better pay.

[whatdude]

Not to sound like a broken record, but don't bother. If you do go to work for Enterprise, 6 months from now you'll be in exactly the same position you are in now, only you'll be getting paid less. Also - I could be wrong here - when you sell an appliance at Sears, I'd think you can pretty much guarantee the product, feel confident in standing behind it and know that you are selling something that people genuinely need. You also have all the tools necessary to do your job, meaning that if you tell someone you'll sell them a certain product, you know that you can follow through on it. Don't count on that at Enterprise. You'll have days where everything runs smoothly, but you'll also have days where you promise a customer a vehicle in 1/2 an hour, have that vehicle ready to go and have the keys in hand when you promise it to them, only to be forced by your manager/area manager to rent that vehicle to a body shop or dealership or give it to another branch 10 minutes before your customer walks in the door. You will be left standing there, on your own looking like a deer in headlights, to explain to the customer that you don't have the car you promised them 1/2 an hour ago. The only help you'll get is "work your magic", "don't worry, another car will come back" or my personal favorite, "put them in that cargo van and switch them out later". Some people don't care about things like that, I just always had a problem telling someone I'd do something for them and then not being able to follow through on it because of someone else's decision.

If you can sell and don't mind doing it, I would suggest trying to find a sales position in an industry that interests you or that you care about. There are millions of products that need to be sold and tons of companies looking for people to sell them. My advice would be to stay where you are and let a recruiting or headhunting firm place you - they can put you in a position to interview with companies you would have never thought of and would never have come across on your own.

[formereracer123]

One thing you may want to keep in mind too is that you may be eventually pressured into working at one of ERAC's airport locations, which do require you to work some Sundays, holidays and evening shifts.

I'd probably recommend what one of the previous posters suggested and that's to either go to school and get a degree in a field or trade that you'd enjoy or go into one of the Armed Forces branches for a few years (I wouldn't suggest the Army though) and learn a trade that you could parlay into a decent paying contractor or federal government job. Of course, I don't know your family situation (uprooting your family and moving them around the country is definitely tough).