Quitting your full time job to detail?

[Murr1525]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

Sounds like another employee to me.... But I am confused:

If your employee does full details, he can already buff/polish correct? Or is he just washing and QDing?

I could see not giving the new guy a rotary right away, but another G100 trained guy would help you a lot.

[Nick Chapman]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

Sounds like another employee to me.... But I am confused:

If your employee does full details, he can already buff/polish correct? Or is he just washing and QDing?

I could see not giving the new guy a rotary right away, but another G100 trained guy would help you a lot.

Full Detail=washing, waxing, cleaning interior, engines etc... No buffing or polishing.

He knows how to opperate a DA, and helps me finish up cars that I buff. But thats about the extent of it.Guess I should be thankful for what I already have.

[onawrxhigh]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

Nick,

I agree with what everyone else is saying as I am sure you do also. Since your employee does already know how to use a D/A properly why not instruct him in your way of polishing out cars with the D/A so that when you are behind/working at the airline He could take on the less challenging polishing jobs to help you get ahead/stay ahead of your demand.

Andrew

[kty10]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

It would be hard for me to walk away from the Southwest job since you'd have to pay for all of your benefits if you did. That's a lot to shell out. Plus, with the economy the way it is, it might be harder to make ends meet.

I'd consider scaling back on the amount of customers you book, if you're constantly falling behind. That might not be an option if you need all the income you can get. But after a while, you might lose customers to your competitors if you're not meeting their needs.

Hopefully you'll be able to catch up and then manage your customers accordingly. You deserve a lot of credit for running your own business and working a full time job. Good luck!

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

Unfortunately thier is no easy answer. After reading all the ideas here. I would stay with the airline weed out some of your customers and continuedetailing like you are. Do what you could to catch up. Between weeding out the customers, raising prices, maybe take a few vacation days from Southwest to catch up. Then just maintain. Wait to see what happens to the economy before quitting the airline.

Just trying to make sense of it all. Good luck in your final decision.

[phambam]

Re: Quitting your full time job to detail?

I agree with you all who understand that economy is not looking too good at this point. With that being said, car detailing is not a necessity but a luxury. Why not keep something that is stable?

Now, if you want to continue with your business, meaning growing and expanding it, you will first need to trust others. Give more obligations to your sole employee. Your team is only as good as it's weakest link. From there, you can maybe hire another person and so forth. Grow it slow so it doesn't spin out of control and you still have a grasp on it. This will help with keeping up with your customer's demand for your services.

If anything, you maybe able to have a good balance between both Southwest and your current business. The best of both worlds!

I wouldn't quit if I were you. Slowly grow the business. If it gets so big that you think you can live off the detailing cars for a living, then go for it.

Good luck my man!