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FFLink wrote:

I don't mean this offensively, but what does a wine taster do that contributes to society, or where do you get... Placed?

I really just don't know, so don't think that I think your job is pointless or anything.

My role in my department accounts for about 33% of revenue of the business. Out of all the revenue streams we are the highest intake - company turnover is around $150 million annually - and the business is growing at around 20% per year based on the previous two years. It's big business. Wine Advisor is a sales role to be sure, with ongoing education about wine to be able to further recommend wine to customers. Ultimately we are better able to sell wine if we know and understand the product well. There are plenty of opportunities for career development and different paths to follow. As the business owns everything from contracts with growers to our own winery, bottling and packing plant, sales and marketing team and courier service I could move up to a department manager or get some further education to become a vintner and go work actually making wine, for example.

Last edited by Jaekus (2013-04-20 17:46:06)

yeah that sounded like you pulled that directly off of a promo website

Sales is tough when you're starting out. High burnout rate until you get some regular customers.

Jaekus wrote:

FFLink wrote:

I don't mean this offensively, but what does a wine taster do that contributes to society, or where do you get... Placed?

I really just don't know, so don't think that I think your job is pointless or anything.

My role in my department accounts for about 33% of revenue of the business. Out of all the revenue streams we are the highest intake - company turnover is around $150 million annually - and the business is growing at around 20% per year based on the previous two years. It's big business. Wine Advisor is a sales role to be sure, with ongoing education about wine to be able to further recommend wine to customers. Ultimately we are better able to sell wine if we know and understand the product well. There are plenty of opportunities for career development and different paths to follow. As the business owns everything from contracts with growers to our own winery, bottling and packing plant, sales and marketing team and courier service I could move up to a department manager or get some further education to become a vintner and go work actually making wine, for example.

Oh, so sales and advice sort of stuff. Makes sense

Good luck to you!

Put an offer on a house this afternoon.

yessir and thanks!

Congrats bugz!

FFLink wrote:

Good luck to you!

Thanks!

Funny and interesting thing/family moment happened today:

Back story: I picked up my defective car battery from Advance Auto this morning after they tried to charge it and then I found out they couldn't honor the warranty on it because they somehow had no record of me and my dad buying it from the website, so my dad offered to buy me another battery and I drove over to his house.

After we came back from the Pep Boys because they didn't have the battery I needed, I reinstalled the old battery back in my car again, and he told me a little later on the way to get something to eat that when I opened the hood, he caught the scent of a nostalgic underhood smell he remembered from long before when he used to work on cars with his now-deceased father whom I never met, and he laughed and said the car do-it-yourselfer thing must've skipped a generation because he smelled that smell with his father and he smelled it with his son but he never smelled it by himself.  Me and my dad aren't terribly close but I could tell it all hit a switch inside him and he became a lot more happy and talkative for the rest of the time.  Just kind of a cool little thing that happened

bugz wrote:

and I got it

o/

FFLink wrote:

bugz wrote:

and I got it

That was fast

Probably no one else wanted to buy it.

bleh stainless steel.

In one of the west suburbs of Ottawa. I find out tonight or tomorrow whether I quality for the mortgage. I'm putting 20% down and I've got the highest credit rating my financial adviser has seen for someone my age so I've got my fingers crossed.