Travis,
I think you just spoke for every body shop in the country, as I hear this day in and day out.
I have been in the paint business a long time and the one thing that has never changed is this.
A paint store guy thinks a sale rep has it made.
A sales guy, thinks the paint store owner has it made.
A salesman thinks his boss has it made.
Chemical reps think i have it made.
A paint store owner wants to own anything but the paint store.
A bodyshop guy thinks the paint store owner has it made.
Bottom line is all jobs have the same amount of problems and headache and the only difference is they are different types of headaches.
A good friend who owned two paint stores back in the 80's, we would always joke about how we would rather own a Dairy queen, well one day he sold his two stores to BASF and called to say he bought two dairy queens.
Inside of one year he sold both and said this was a bigger pain in A++ then running the paint stores. LOL
I think you just spoke for every body shop in the country, as I hear this day in and day out.
I have been in the paint business a long time and the one thing that has never changed is this.
A paint store guy thinks a sale rep has it made.
A sales guy, thinks the paint store owner has it made.
A salesman thinks his boss has it made.
Chemical reps think i have it made.
A paint store owner wants to own anything but the paint store.
A bodyshop guy thinks the paint store owner has it made.
Bottom line is all jobs have the same amount of problems and headache and the only difference is they are different types of headaches.
A good friend who owned two paint stores back in the 80's, we would always joke about how we would rather own a Dairy queen, well one day he sold his two stores to BASF and called to say he bought two dairy queens.
Inside of one year he sold both and said this was a bigger pain in A++ then running the paint stores. LOL