[dark0821]

Hey Revscene, not sure if this is the right section, but I guess it gets the most traffic. Its gonna be a long read

Anyhow, I am thinking of taking a leap of faith and go into car sales at an openroad dealership. As the interview date creeps closer, I am starting to get cold feet, so I just want your thoughts.

Some background info:
Currently:
- been working as sales at a signage and graphics place for full 9 years (started july 2013)
- 9 to 5 job with weekends and holidays off
- full benefits (extended health + dental for the whole fam)
- making about 60 to 70k a year
- paid 4 weeks vacation a year
- very stable, and performance wise, doing good, can probably retire on it as I have retained enough clients to reoccuring work orders to safely breeze pass sales targets


Obligations:
- 20+ yrs left on my mortgage
- sole income earner in the fam
- daughter + son starting grade 5 and grade 2 in Sept
- as you can see, broke ass and cant afford shit
- maybe wife can go back to the work force once kids get older, but I have 0 help from both sides of grand parents on this front. So she wont make enough to cover the costs of both kids in child care. Hence the need to wait till both kids can stay home legally by themselves.

Reasons for the leap/ what I think car sales will be like?
- let's face it, I dont dream about signage and graphics, it was a stable job with a stable income, came at the right time as I took on a mortgage and starting a family.
- Wifey says I come home grumpy more and more often, and she can see that I dont enjoy it
- limited growth as it is a small team, basically 6 man operation including owner, and sales are done by me + owner only, 4 guys are design/production/installation. Not really anywhere for me to "go", and not like a larger "firm" if there is a type of thing for signage is gonna be much better? I dont see a way up unless I open up my own shop?
- car sales will probably mean trying to be at the dealer 24/7, losing all holidays
- losing all benefits of extended health + dental?
- most likely taking a pay cut at the beginning (especially with the current car inventories), but potential to make more?
- more growth opportunity, can try to make it to the top sales position like TOFU, or go up from sales to financial advisor/manager eventually?

Anyways, the reason why I even got the interview is through recommendation of a friend, or else I doubt I will get the chance as I have 0 car sales experience. All my knowledge comes from youtube videos from the past week.

I am in my mid-30s, I believe making a change now is still somewhat viable, no one wants to train up a noob when they are in their mid 40s.

So here we are, thoughts/suggestions/insights/reason for/against?

Sorry for the long post, thanks guys.