I work in a Parts Department at a Chevrolet dealership.
I was initially offered a job locally, and got into it, and for the first few years I loved it. Now, I've found the only way to get any sufficient raises is to quit and work somewhere else. It is currently not interesting to me, and I don't intend to do it for much longer, although this is my 3rd dealership, and 7th year doing it.
Chevrolet, as a company, is not good to work for as we get no incentives, the dealership isn't any better, offering absolutely nothing to make me (or anyone else) feel valued as an employee. The owner would rather just complain that the roof leaks on his house on Cape Cod, and complain that he hasn't had any time to drive his Corvette this year.
It won't get any better elsewhere, either. Trouble is, the Parts Department in any dealership is the bottom of the barrel. We pick up all the BS for everything that goes on in any other department, and have to eat a lot of losses so GM doesn't see said losses in the Service Department, I guess meaning they don't care how the Parts Department does.
Aside from all of that, in this Dealership, there's no room to advance aside from becoming a Parts Manager, and that position is something that I would like to try, but I'd still be in Parts, and the top of the bottom of the barrel isn't too exciting, now, is it.
I took a few night courses at the Community College last year, Small Business Management and Accounting 1. It was nice to be back in class, and learning, but those credits counted for nothing, and I'd like to put them towards a degree of some sort.
I've been trying to get into the Rail System around here, it's a good job, and most jobs they're hiring for are entry-level and more than I make, and it's a guaranteed job until I want to retire, but getting in is tough.
