Are you on your way to your first million?

Q asked: Are you on your way to your first million?

I was on the way to earning my first million around twenty years ago when I got my first paper route. At this rate, I'll be a millionare by the year 2186.

I sold my first car Friday night. I sold my second today (Tuesday).

I am working an average of eleven hours a day, six days a week. I am starting to hit my stride. In another month my training salary will be gone and I have to rely 100% on commissions. If all goes well, I will stop working my second job at that time.

I don't know how much money I made on today's sale. I wouldn't have made the sale without the finance manager's help. I'm not sure the finance manager likes me. He let the car go at $500 over invoice, and I don't think he had to do that. I probably won't make much on the sale. On the other hand, I don't know how much we made on the back end (on the financing).

I'm not complaining. I'm not very good yet, and I may have to live with small commissions, until I am good enough to close the sales entirely on my own.

This job is forcing me to be more firm and assertive. I'm amazed at what goes on. I am learning that the management I work for is (95%) honest and open in the way they conduct their business. Surprisingly, the customers are the ones who are dishonest. They feel they need to hide things in order to protect themselves.

I don't blame them. At the recent tent sale there were salespeople from five or six other dealerships there, and some of them were shady characters. The thing is, customers can protect themselves and still be honest, if they are a little bit creative, and it would save us all some time. Then again, most people are at a disadvantage because they don't buy cars very often, whereas the salespeople sell them on a daily basis.

I've become less tolerant of nonsense, both when I'm at work and in my private dealings. My time is becoming more precious to me. That said, I have to go now - no more time for blogging!