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Well this place is actually a branch of an interior design firm based out of New York. They were definitely trolling though because they had a résumé from months ago.

So what do you usually pay them after you hire them on? The same plus benefits?

It seems like that is how most people are hiring these days. Thats what 80% of the listings are on career builder and monster. I just hate the fact most of it is contract to hire. This job would be 6 month contract to hire.

Anyone ever deal with Oxford Consulting? They are based out of Westerville and just called me about a sys admin job in Cleveland.

Awesome guys, I will definitely be talking with you about all this.

Wow, dont know why I never thought of that before?! I tend to stick to the lower levels and kick em to the curb when Im done which doesn't really get you anywhere haha That would be much appreciated! You guys are a big help and its always a good idea in my book to have a fresh set of eyes find something I may have missed.

This is what I am going for. It may even come down to having a contractor come in for a few weeks to get it initially configured with me helping, then I can run it after that. No idea until I sit down with him and see what his expectations are.

I definitely do not know ALL of those areas, but I really need to sit down with him and see exactly what he wants done before I make a decision. I will post back here after I talk to him so I can get a better idea of what I am dealing with.

Nope, not yet. Waiting on getting a new job since I am the cosigner.

Called yesterday to set up a time to talk but he asked me to call back Thursday since they are having a huge sale through Wednesday and are really busy.

Thanks!

They did have a contractor that was supposed to come in and do it from Akron but it never panned out so they just put it on hold. And I agree I can't do it entirely on my own and contractors are on my list of questions. For the starting system I think I can do most of it though. There is already a network the desktops are set up on and cabling for the new call center will only go to the room next door so not a problem. Its once I get past the first dealer when I would need to enlist help.

That was my first thought too but the guy actually told me when he was showing me around not to worry about the car and told me we could get it lower than what I was asking, maybe even a new one at dealer cost. That is what made me think its legit. He turned us away basically saying we will be in touch, didn't even try to sell the car after we talked.

Thanks guys, this is all very informative. I do already have a list of question drafted like time frames, workloads (how many calls / users at once, peak hours and events), existing plans, final expectations, expansion, budgets, and pretty much anything else I can think of I am writing down on a legal pad for when I sit down with him. Is there a good list of questions out there for implementing projects like this?

Wow, first there were 2 shootings within 200 yards of my place last week now this. Moving my gun from the dresser to the bed and looking up new places to live right now. Edit: actually this was further than I thought haha, but still those shootings were pretty close.

I am a quick learner which is why I am pretty confident I can do this. Good thinking on hourly vs salary. I would probably ask for $22/hr but honestly if they said they would give $50k salary I would probably take it. This isn't a time critical thing from what I understand so if I were to work 9-5 on salary I don't think they would have a problem with it taking a bit longer to implement. But thats also something that would need to be discussed and factored into the final salary/wage.

All good points, but I would be leaning more towards a salary because this not having a job thing is stressing me to the max right now and I need security when dealing with my income. If this goes well, then I will think about getting my own thing going. Who knows, maybe I will do salary the first year or so then when they expand to other dealers do my own thing with them as my first client. I also told him I would be willing to do the emergency after hours things and off hour maintenance/upgrades, so pretty much all the standard stuff an admin would do which would be more of a salary position. What would you guys things is a reasonable salary for this position?

So I recently lost my job over very stupid circumstances and have been looking for a new one when yesterday something may have fallen in my lap too good to be true. I was helping my brother car shop when we ended up at a Kia dealership, he really wants a Soul, we found a black one and started talking numbers with the sales person, all his numbers kept coming up $2000 more than what I thought the value should be after looking at KBB and edmonds, so the sales manager comes out to go over the numbers with us again. We ended up talking about what we do for a living and I told him I was Tech Support for a software company. His eyes get big and says "So your THE computer guy huh?" I said yeah I guess and he proceeds to ask me about what kind of work I have done. He then tells me to follow him and leads me up stairs to a place customers are obviously not supposed to be and he shows me this room with a few older servers in it sitting on the floor and asks me if they were any good and if I knew how to set that kind of stuff up. I told him yes and he explains that over the past year or so business has gone from 30-40 cars a month to 130+ a month and they need a staffed call center now that they are doing so much business and asks if I would be interested in setting it up. Heres the kicker, he basically told me I can do whatever the hell I want since there isn't any system in place now and I can bill them with a "really nice commission" added to it or they could put me on payroll if I wanted and probably even an office somewhere in the building. From my understanding, he wants to do this at his dealership first then expand it to the other 12 dealerships they have. Told me I can work whatever hours I want, I could come in at night to work on it if I wanted and basically everything you could want in a job. It sounds like I would basically be my own boss. Since they have ZERO IT on staff right now, I would be help desk at the dealers too. Like I said earlier, this sounds too good to be true for a young guy like me. How should I even go about this? He gave me his home and cell number and told me to think about it and to call him next week. I need input here for if this actually is true. I am going to call Monday to try and set up a time to talk about details but this first system isn't going to be very big, like 15 phones in the room next to the servers. I think it is something I can definitely do after working at Sherwin Williams on their 300+ server environment but I have only limited interaction with phone systems which was a massive Siemens system at Sherwin. Does this sound like the perfect job for a beginning IT career or am I forgetting things and actually in over my head on this? I am not an expert on these things, I know, but I feel like since I am basically building the system from the ground up I will have a more extensive knowledge of how the system works and will learn as I go. Hell, this could even turn into some future jobs for some of you if this goes across all the dealers.

Wonder what that might be? haha

So much want right now!

projectfree.tv is also a good site and usually has links up after an hour. Be warned, it has quite a few pop ups and a friend using windows claims funky stuff happens to his computer after going to this site. Macs are fine though and the links are usually pretty quick to buffer.

I heard it does not follow the comics 100% of the time.

Watching episode 1 of this season right now, how much do you guys wish this would happen? It's like a video game with levels and bosses and finding weapons as you go! Haha

Also a good point