Posted by jdemaris on December 14, 2009 at 13:54:21 from (72.171.0.149):
In Reply to: dealerships posted by olliekid on December 14, 2009 at 13:10:32:
I worked in many tractor dealerships and they never paid what I would of been making as an auto mechanic in a car dealership. Last Deere dealership I worked in was around 1991. Maybe things have changed, but I doubt it. I was the highest paid guy there (in the service department) and got $12 per hour plus lots of overtime, one month vacation if I took it in the winter. Also got profit sharing, but during the last couple of years, there wasn't any. Earlier I sometimes got an extra $5000 per year.
I was offered a job last year to run the parts counter and service department at a newly opening Deere dealership in a rural area. They offered me $10 per hour plus half my family's health insurance. I suspect I could of done as well stocking shelfs or driving a truck for Walmart. Needless to say, I didn't jump at the offer. Good thing. They're already out of business.
My advice is, forget it unless you really love tractors. At least when I worked at dealerships, we did all our own head work, water pumps, injection pumps, cylinder heads, piston-pin fitting, piston knurling, etc. So, it was a great learning experience. Now? What do you get to learn? How to send parts out to get done elsewhere.
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