thinking about make a career out of car audio thoughts??
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Well since the post has denegrated into Yuli not knowing what the hell he is talking about I will give you some of the actual ups and downs of the business side. My view is from the install side, not the sales side.
Plusses
1. The actual work can be fun.
2. Depending on the shop, there can be alot of freedom to do what you want (creativity wise)
3. Schedules are usually pretty good most of the year.
4. You get to meet alot of cool people. Especially 16 year old girls (lol).
5. You get to play with all the latest toys.
6. You set your own pay check, if you are good and focused you can make good money.
7. Pretty much every 16 year old guy will be jealous of your job, sometimes even guys that drive really nice BMW's and own gear worth more than your house will tell you how lucky you are.
8. You will have a great reason to buy tools, and your significant other can't say anything about it.
9. Gear at cost.
There are many more plusses.
Disadvantages
1. In the summer the bays are too hot, in the winter too cold.
2. Water and snow pool in one spot where you always need to stand away from any floor drains (if your shop even has any).
3. Salesmen will tell the customer it will only take 2 hours to do a complete system in a mustang coupe and "sure we can fit 4 15's in the trunk"
4. All the hot girls will be driving POS's and have loser boyfriends, no rich hot chicks with Ferrari's will ever come in.
5. other people will borrow your tools and lose them.
6. You will be doing alot of remote car starters in the winter, kiss any thoughts of Christmas holidays goodbye, if you like winter sports, say goodbye, I have been on a snow board 4 times since becoming an installer.
7. There is always someone better than you, and if you want to keep up you have to spend alot of time researching and practising. Of course this can be an advantage for alot of installers.
Plusses
1. The actual work can be fun.
2. Depending on the shop, there can be alot of freedom to do what you want (creativity wise)
3. Schedules are usually pretty good most of the year.
4. You get to meet alot of cool people. Especially 16 year old girls (lol).
5. You get to play with all the latest toys.
6. You set your own pay check, if you are good and focused you can make good money.
7. Pretty much every 16 year old guy will be jealous of your job, sometimes even guys that drive really nice BMW's and own gear worth more than your house will tell you how lucky you are.
8. You will have a great reason to buy tools, and your significant other can't say anything about it.
9. Gear at cost.
There are many more plusses.
Disadvantages
1. In the summer the bays are too hot, in the winter too cold.
2. Water and snow pool in one spot where you always need to stand away from any floor drains (if your shop even has any).
3. Salesmen will tell the customer it will only take 2 hours to do a complete system in a mustang coupe and "sure we can fit 4 15's in the trunk"
4. All the hot girls will be driving POS's and have loser boyfriends, no rich hot chicks with Ferrari's will ever come in.
5. other people will borrow your tools and lose them.
6. You will be doing alot of remote car starters in the winter, kiss any thoughts of Christmas holidays goodbye, if you like winter sports, say goodbye, I have been on a snow board 4 times since becoming an installer.
7. There is always someone better than you, and if you want to keep up you have to spend alot of time researching and practising. Of course this can be an advantage for alot of installers.
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^^ With that mentality nothing is easy. Id love to see how much of a contradiction ^ that menatily is in compairison to the founder of Rockford or Kaption. Your right nothing is easy, but its much easier to work hard at founding a company for the next 5 years, that will generate on-going residual income: then to work until your 70 and die broke after living a mediocre vanilla life-style that in the end amounted to little more then warming a seat for a paycheck.
Im just saying I think your guys' skills, smarts, experience and attributes are worth a million a year honesty. Im not saying that for any other reason other then I truely believe that. Of course it is not easy... but there are how many CCA geniuses out there that can create something together. I know that sounds fluffy and stupid. All I know is, that if a small team of the CCA genuses, would team together, I fully believe with all of your combined knowledge that you guys can make something work
Im just saying I think your guys' skills, smarts, experience and attributes are worth a million a year honesty. Im not saying that for any other reason other then I truely believe that. Of course it is not easy... but there are how many CCA geniuses out there that can create something together. I know that sounds fluffy and stupid. All I know is, that if a small team of the CCA genuses, would team together, I fully believe with all of your combined knowledge that you guys can make something work
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Starting a car audio business can be hard. Alot of installers make terrible business owners. Alot more just can't raise the necessary capital to get started. I get told about 4-5 times a week that I should open my own shop, but the people saying it never seem to want to lend me $70,000 [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
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4. You get to meet alot of cool people.
Especially 16 year old girls (lol).
7. Pretty much every 16 year old guy will be jealous of your job, sometimes even guys that drive really nice BMW's and own gear worth more than your house will tell you how lucky you are.
Uh, I really hope an installer has more perks then impressing 16 year olds.
Dont take that the wrong way, but those two comments really stuck out
Especially 16 year old girls (lol).
7. Pretty much every 16 year old guy will be jealous of your job, sometimes even guys that drive really nice BMW's and own gear worth more than your house will tell you how lucky you are.
Uh, I really hope an installer has more perks then impressing 16 year olds.
Dont take that the wrong way, but those two comments really stuck out
Tim that was a good answer.......oh wait that didnt answer anything
Dereck dont tell me that u were actually seriouse about all those pluses???? u possibly cant be? u get to buy tools and your wife cant say anything about it? and u get to meet 16 year old girls? and BMW owners tell u they are jelause meanwhile their car costs more than your house? cmon man u should be able to do better than that. I dont know, u might look at it differently that i do but i was offered a job as an installer at a very prestigious car audio shop here in the GTA, the money was there and so was the ability to do what i like.....but all the negatives simply outweighted the positives for me.
Dereck dont tell me that u were actually seriouse about all those pluses???? u possibly cant be? u get to buy tools and your wife cant say anything about it? and u get to meet 16 year old girls? and BMW owners tell u they are jelause meanwhile their car costs more than your house? cmon man u should be able to do better than that. I dont know, u might look at it differently that i do but i was offered a job as an installer at a very prestigious car audio shop here in the GTA, the money was there and so was the ability to do what i like.....but all the negatives simply outweighted the positives for me.
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DWVW, I know about starting your own business. Here in Calgary. I tried... and still possibly will try again to start up my company Longhorn Limo. Anybody from Calgary, and possibly you, might remember that Chevy Dually Truck limo, from a few years ago. That was taken off the road, due to it being an illegal vehicle. There is a 35 foot long Dually GMC dually up in Edmonton thats now in operation. I was going to buy that, bring it down here and then use that to start up the new Longhorn Limo. I was able to secure financing for it, and it would have be a viable do-able idea. The bank was open to it, and was basically open for the start-up capital. Thats pretty frickin' awesome for a 22 year old with a dream. Due to other legallity issues with that GMC, there may be some severe repricussions down the road, so I'll hold off for now. BUt it starts with a dream.
IM not talking about being self-employed and opening your own install shop, thats great, but its still linear income, since you'd be trading YOUR hours for dollars. But pioneering a Subwoofer manufacturing company or something.
YOu know? Im sorry, perhaps I'm wrong, I just think you guys are frickin' amazing, and with your contacts, and knowledge base, I refuse to believe that this cant be done. Critisizm (bad spelling) is the death of creativity
IM not talking about being self-employed and opening your own install shop, thats great, but its still linear income, since you'd be trading YOUR hours for dollars. But pioneering a Subwoofer manufacturing company or something.
YOu know? Im sorry, perhaps I'm wrong, I just think you guys are frickin' amazing, and with your contacts, and knowledge base, I refuse to believe that this cant be done. Critisizm (bad spelling) is the death of creativity
IM not talking about being self-employed and opening your own install shop, thats great, but its still linear income, since you'd be trading YOUR hours for dollars. But pioneering a Subwoofer manufacturing company or something.
YOu know? Im sorry, perhaps I'm wrong, I just think you guys are frickin' amazing, and with your contacts, and knowledge base, I refuse to believe that this cant be done. Critisizm (bad spelling) is the death of creativity
YOu know? Im sorry, perhaps I'm wrong, I just think you guys are frickin' amazing, and with your contacts, and knowledge base, I refuse to believe that this cant be done. Critisizm (bad spelling) is the death of creativity
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Most installers aren't schooled in the manufacturing side. Most car audio company engineers have never worked in the retail side. In fact alot of comapanies now just buy from an offshore manufacturer, and are little more than advertising companies. And that requires capital that most people here could never raise.
