Who works at a car audio store?

[itsblown 10+ year member]

Just wondering who on here works at a car audio shop? how is it? Im looking to get another job soon and figured I would look for something I enjoy doing. Im just worried that after installing all day I might start to dislike doing it but who knows. I have applied at best buy, cant imagine how the co-workers would be there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

Click to read more...

 

[rebelfromva 10+ year member]

Def consider the part of doing installs all day everyday. Will get repetitive and possibly start to dislike working on your own stuff

 

[dbeez 5,000+ posts]

You will get tired of it.

 

[VisceralSound 10+ year member]

Only thing that would really turn me off is pay, starting out im sure certain places will start low, don't bother with the install bay at bestbuy.

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

Only thing that would really turn me off is pay, starting out im sure certain places will start low, don't bother with the install bay at bestbuy.

Actually after doing quite a bit of research and talkign to a former best buy employee it seems that starting pay is about 10 dollars an hour. For a high school kid going into college next year thats pretty good. and any other job will pay me just about minimum wage enless I decide to bust my *** at fed ex or ups

To all the people saying I will get tired of it are you guys speaking from experience?

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

hope you like doing remote starts and car alarms, that is 90% of what you will be doing.

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

hope you like doing remote starts and car alarms, that is 90% of what you will be doing.

Yeah that seems to be the case everywhere

 

[VisceralSound 10+ year member]

Actually after doing quite a bit of research and talkign to a former best buy employee it seems that starting pay is about 10 dollars an hour. For a high school kid going into college next year thats pretty good. and any other job will pay me just about minimum wage enless I decide to bust my *** at fed ex or ups

To all the people saying I will get tired of it are you guys speaking from experience?

I work at Kwik Trip, a convenience store based out of Wisconsin, im a first year college student making almost 11/hour working there less than a year, best job in town for me at the moment.

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

I work at Kwik Trip, a convenience store based out of Wisconsin, im a first year college student making almost 11/hour working there less than a year, best job in town for me at the moment.

**** a convenience store? wtf is it a money laundering front or something

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

meh, i wouldn't at best buy. seems like they are having financial troubles

 

[QuietEclipse29 10+ year member]

hope you like doing remote starts and car alarms, that is 90% of what you will be doing.

This.

And most of the time you'll need to get mecp certified

 

[VisceralSound 10+ year member]

**** a convenience store? wtf is it a money laundering front or something

This place is awesome, and the bonus check at the end of the year (novemberish) for me with what ive worked might be 900~give or take, to me 900 free dollars is awesome.

 

[murph 10+ year member]

Work the floor position selling the audio equipment to people.

 

[daboyfrumdabx 10+ year member]

Work the floor position selling the audio equipment to people.

Being that I'm currently in that position primarily, I would advise against. It's hard as hell to meet the requirements of the job (sell product and services while being honest and meeting customer needs).
However, it is nice to get the one OG every once in a while that you can have a legitimate audio conversation with. Also fun to mention an "ohm" and watch the people that "know" everything go cross-eyed lol.

I also work the install bay once in a blue moon as a fill in. I would have to say I enjoy that more because of the lack of customer interaction, although the installs are boring in comparison.

Sales floor also gets paid less.

As for co-workers. The 3 regular installers we have obviously interact with me often. One of them knows his stuff. The other is good at what he does (install low-end or low-power equipment), but would not know what to do after 1kwatts. He likes to learn from me. The last installer is the "know it all" and is constantly trying to debate and loses.

Sales floor co-workers, enjoy learning. Not so much about different brands and such, but best buy does not teach their sales associates anything about installations so they can never answer a technical question a customer has. That technical stuff is what they like to learn.

 

[itsblown 10+ year member]

Thats what I like to hear ^ figure the instal bay would pay more and I dont meat all the requirements but Im guesing a majority of the installers at best buy arent mecp certified