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9 more days. Just 9. They are working days, not weekend days, but when you're counting down to vacation, weekends don't count. Let me say that I am plenty ready for this vacation. Work right now is tough. It's very difficult to learn something very complex, while being very busy at it. I just hope that the mistakes I invariably will make will not cause the shop to lose one of our accounts. It's unlikely to happen, but not at all impossible. I guess that's part of making the big bucks.. Or at least having the possibility of big bucks. Ahhh comission. It weird though, because although we work on comission, it's not like we go out to make sales. Someone gets in an accident, they call their insurance who recommends a shop, or they already know where they want to go, or a friend tells them. It's not like I go out on the street and look for accidents and then try to sell them on our shop. So I don't have direct control over the sale. The only thing we have control over is the current customer's experience, so that if they ever get into another accident, or someone they know does, then they'll recommend us. I guess making money off of other people's lack of driving skills is kinda odd in the first place. It is interesting though, to see how cars are put together, how they hold up over time, which ones are good (toyota) and bad (don't buy a VW... ever), how different models hold up in accidents. Good times. Well, speaking of it, time to shower up and head on in, one step closer to the Dominican Republic!!