To be clear before I go any further
Nothing I post/will post/have posted in the past blah blah blah blah blah concerning employment or views of views of viewsā¦. this is for me. For Nicole at her core for learning and growing and being equipping myself with toolsā in my ātoolboxā to do my job correctly. I want to be passionate, over the top, in love with what I do because itās the only way to feel like youāre on vacation every day. So for my records and my networking and my quest to be the best I can be each day for my customers, here I amā¦.
Asking humbly for help.
From anyone. About anything you can give me advice/link/procedures/guidebooks/etc etc etcā¦. A shout out into the void, probably, but here I am hoping that somewhere someone has the same glimmer of a passion and can help me dive into this.
Background: parents include a body man and a hardcore insanely smart manager mother, grew up in a shop (or bouncing around them rather), even into adulthood stumbling into the estimator path. Iāve been through (mental health wiseā¦) a lot⦠blah blah blah, got some help, yada yadaā¦.great cool Iām on meds now and feel like Iāve missed 10 years of my life to not having a hobby/passion/something to throw myself into for mental exercise. Iād love to use my career as a basis of learning, hoping it will bring me more joy and success! Iāve been in the shop for 6 years, 2 as a receptionist, 2 at home as a reinspector third party, and 2 as a shop estimator where Iāve thrived the most. Just recently, a light clicked when I got intrigued with a āhow does that work thoughā¦ā¦.?ā And somehow I havenāt stopped asking questions.
So if anyone has magazine articles, oem procedures/position statements, insurance guidelines (oooooooh, and if youāre a baddie who has loopholes to *help* customers (((and again THIS IS ME PERSONALLY AS A HUMAN NOT AFFILIATED ANYWHERE LOL))), advice for a young gun who wants to go far, someone to bitch to about shop life because being a woman in this industry is harrrrrrrrrrrrrrd, lemme know. I need good friends, I would adore a mentor, and Iām a pretty inquisitive person to bounce ideas off of.
Nice to meet yāall!
-cole















