what does your customer do for a living?

[agazmi]

Mostly investment bankers, stock traders, and others in the financial business. One owner of an M5 and a Porsche GT3 owned a farm. Another owner of a couple Ferraris, a Porsche Turbo, and Aston Martin ran "a couple online businesses".



One of my clients from Piper Jaffray told me he has made and lost a company over $26M in one week. The amount of money those guys deal with on a daily basis just blows my mind.

Yeah i know a few currency/stock traders making quite a bit. Lol @ "online business" (sounds shady...) , But making and loosing a $26M company in one week is quite mind boggling!

[kaval]

I don`t bother finding out, It`s none of my business. If they tell me, I don`t bother remembering unless I feel its something I can find a common ground with them. But I won`t go posting that kind of information here, out of respect.

[todd@bsaw]

I don`t bother finding out, It`s none of my business. If they tell me, I don`t bother remembering unless I feel its something I can find a common ground with them. But I won`t go posting that kind of information here, out of respect.

So, are you saying all of us are disrespectful? I`d disagree.

Yes, I am respectful of my clients and it really isn`t any body`s business what their business is, but you are not pointing to a client or a car and saying, "This is Bob. Bob sells real estate. Bob makes $150,000 a year and drives a Porsche."



Nobody is every going to know who my clients are. A little general information isn`t disrespectful at all. I believe it`s great for a little discussion as well as some possible marketing help for other detailers out there.



If you would rather not post about what your clients do, then you have that right. But it`s a shame you have to passive-aggressively label others as disrespectful for doing so.

[autobahnshine]

I like this discussion because it gives me motivation to go to college, get a degree (or two) and work VERY hard for the rest of my life :usa.

[Accumulator]

I like this discussion because it gives me motivation to go to college, get a degree (or two) and work VERY hard for the rest of my life :usa.

Heh heh...that`s my favorite post on this whole thread :xyxthumbs

[agazmi]

Heh heh...that`s my favorite post on this whole thread :xyxthumbs

i second that, it was pretty much my main reason for starting the thread.

[imported_Detailing Technology]

I don`t bother finding out, It`s none of my business. If they tell me, I don`t bother remembering unless I feel its something I can find a common ground with them. But I won`t go posting that kind of information here, out of respect.

You are cleaning their car, you are not their psychiatrist.

I think the point is not to expose what specific people do for their money, his point is to figure out where the money comes from.



I only find out if we speak about it, they all ask me what I do for a living.

[Sprzout]

I like this discussion because it gives me motivation to go to college, get a degree (or two) and work VERY hard for the rest of my life :usa.

You know, the sad thing is, I`ve been to college, and I`ve got 2 degrees - computer science. I once worked for a computer game company, and now I`m doing tech support for a cable internet company. I`ve been told I can`t advance because I don`t have certification which I DIDN`T get in the college classes I took, so that I now have to spend MORE time in schooling, taking tests to get certification that I would need to be RE-certified for in 2 years, which means MORE schooling...It`s a vicious circle.



Not that I don`t think it`s important, and learning is something I need to do, but at the same time, I don`t want to spend the rest of my life working and then going to school on my own time to get certified to keep my job, then spend the rest of my free time studying to keep my certification - all after I spent 4 years studying computer science topics that are now out of date.



I`m biding my time to leave the company and do mobile detailing so that 1) I can be my own boss, 2) I can refuse the right to service someone if I don`t feel that I can do the job to their satisfaction, and 3) because I would get satisfaction out of making a car look GOOD (not to mention that I live in Southern California, where it doesn`t rain/snow as much as say, Seattle).



I look forward to all of this!

[kaval]

So, are you saying all of us are disrespectful? I`d disagree.

Yes, I am respectful of my clients and it really isn`t any body`s business what their business is, but you are not pointing to a client or a car and saying, "This is Bob. Bob sells real estate. Bob makes $150,000 a year and drives a Porsche."



Nobody is every going to know who my clients are. A little general information isn`t disrespectful at all. I believe it`s great for a little discussion as well as some possible marketing help for other detailers out there.



If you would rather not post about what your clients do, then you have that right. But it`s a shame you have to passive-aggressively label others as disrespectful for doing so.

I apologize for passively disrespecting you. That was not my intention.

[todd@bsaw]

S`OK.

I may have been a little uptight that day. I`m sure it probably wasn`t intentional.