Hey everyone, so this question is mainly to those who detail full time. But anyone feel free to answer I could use all the help I can get and any opinions are nice.
So a quick little back story, I'll try to make it short and sweet. I used to work at Best Buy, I ended up doing detailing on the side and one of the guys I did some work for works at a mechanics shop. Well the owner of the shop saw my work and offered to hire me to do detailing for him.
I started off doing work on all of his personal vehicles which are everything from Jeep wranglers and jacked up excursions to his GT500. That was good because I got to work on a variety of vehicles doing a variety of different things. So I have really stepped up my game as far as knowledge and skills go. I feel like I'm 10x better than I was prior to working here.
Well it has gotten to the point where I have built up a huge back log of cars, on my own time, that I just haven't been able to do because I either don't have the time because I work nearly 60 hours a week or because I'm "afraid" my boss will get pissed because I am doing cars behind his back even though it's on my own time. Now the big thing is only about 10-15 of those hours and detailing. The rest of that is either me sitting at a desk answering phones until everyone gets in, in the mornings and even there I'm normally there until 2-3pm. Or I'm helping out with his other company doing basically janitorial work.
Now one thing to note is nearly all my cars that I have backed up are from car clubs around my area, be it mopar clubs, chevy clubs, mustang clubs, etc. So I feel like my name is already out there pretty good. I have nearly 20 cars backed up and I am getting contacted at least 2 times a week so that number just keeps getting bigger. That is one thing with clubs, words travel further and faster I feel like than it does with a "normal" person.
So here is my question and where I need some opinions, do you think with the information I have given you that I could quit and do this professionally on my own? I feel like if I have 20 cars now, that 20 may turn into another 15-20 which would turn into another 15-20 and so on and so on.
The big thing for me that is making me want to do it is, I now know what he is charging customers and I'm getting a very small fraction of that. So he is making a killing off of my skills and my tallents which really urks me. Now the only thing holding me back is it's scary to quite a job that pays ok and losing that job security.
My goal is to be a professional detailer. Right now I'm the guy who sits at a desk and answers phones, who also goes and cleans windows or cleans out a building, who also runs errands every now and again, who also does a little bit of detailing.
So again, what do you guys think? With the back log that I have and the groups/clubs I have gotten in with so far, do you think that could carry me? When do you really know if it's time to go pro?
Thanks for any help guys
So a quick little back story, I'll try to make it short and sweet. I used to work at Best Buy, I ended up doing detailing on the side and one of the guys I did some work for works at a mechanics shop. Well the owner of the shop saw my work and offered to hire me to do detailing for him.
I started off doing work on all of his personal vehicles which are everything from Jeep wranglers and jacked up excursions to his GT500. That was good because I got to work on a variety of vehicles doing a variety of different things. So I have really stepped up my game as far as knowledge and skills go. I feel like I'm 10x better than I was prior to working here.
Well it has gotten to the point where I have built up a huge back log of cars, on my own time, that I just haven't been able to do because I either don't have the time because I work nearly 60 hours a week or because I'm "afraid" my boss will get pissed because I am doing cars behind his back even though it's on my own time. Now the big thing is only about 10-15 of those hours and detailing. The rest of that is either me sitting at a desk answering phones until everyone gets in, in the mornings and even there I'm normally there until 2-3pm. Or I'm helping out with his other company doing basically janitorial work.
Now one thing to note is nearly all my cars that I have backed up are from car clubs around my area, be it mopar clubs, chevy clubs, mustang clubs, etc. So I feel like my name is already out there pretty good. I have nearly 20 cars backed up and I am getting contacted at least 2 times a week so that number just keeps getting bigger. That is one thing with clubs, words travel further and faster I feel like than it does with a "normal" person.
So here is my question and where I need some opinions, do you think with the information I have given you that I could quit and do this professionally on my own? I feel like if I have 20 cars now, that 20 may turn into another 15-20 which would turn into another 15-20 and so on and so on.
The big thing for me that is making me want to do it is, I now know what he is charging customers and I'm getting a very small fraction of that. So he is making a killing off of my skills and my tallents which really urks me. Now the only thing holding me back is it's scary to quite a job that pays ok and losing that job security.
My goal is to be a professional detailer. Right now I'm the guy who sits at a desk and answers phones, who also goes and cleans windows or cleans out a building, who also runs errands every now and again, who also does a little bit of detailing.
So again, what do you guys think? With the back log that I have and the groups/clubs I have gotten in with so far, do you think that could carry me? When do you really know if it's time to go pro?
Thanks for any help guys
