OK I'll join in.
Transport Management at Uni, including a 14-month placement with Mobil. Car Salesman for Ford and Honda for 9 months combined. 2 years as a Commercial Mortgage Broker.
I now work for an Automotive Business Intelligence provider. We have data for sales, news, specifications and prices of new vehicles for 60 markets worldwide, selling the data and software to produce reports used by all the major OEM's.
I started in the Automotive Research industry as a Specs researcher, before becoming a Volumes researcher for my current company, JATO Dynamics. In the 10 years since, I have moved up to my current position where I manage the Volumes (sales/regs) data research. I have 10 people in the UK and a further 32 worldwide tasked with the Volumes research. We take new monthly sales/regs volumes data for 60 countries and research it into a consistent format to feed our reporting software. We also collect additional sales data locally to improve the volumes data and provide a link to our pricing and specs. The idea is to produce a database that tells you what is on sale, where in the world, with prices and specifications all detailed and how many got sold.
So I get paid to be a car geek, well that and a bit more, but I do work in an industry centred on my passion, so I'm luckier than most.
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13th February 2012, 09:57 AM
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