How many of us have worked in audio stores?


Just wondering how many of us have actually earned a living working in audio stores at some point in our lives...

To start, I used to work in Stereo Warehouse of PR in 1982-83 when I was 20 years old. The stores owners were concert promoters, so it was a triple play in which I was exposed to show business and record sales, too.

I also worked in Gallager TV in upstate NY back in 1988-89. The owner is a TV freak and a competent salesman Circuit City and Best Buy haven't been able to knock down.

Anyone else?
psychicanimal
You know these people never worked in a HiFi store. They have money! I remember in 79 when I was working in audio retail, making $85 bucks a week sometimes, driving a $65 61 Olds Dynamic 88, and listening to my $5000 ARC and Magneplanar rig(beg, borrow, or steal), renting a room in a crappy old roach infested house.Real glamor and status. I did that crap for ten years, and learned to hate every minute of it! If it sounds like I'm bitter about it , I am.
Ah! A classic HiFi bum! Well, it's not easy getting women living like that for sure! We can always change--it's harder as we get older because of age and momentum, but it can be done...

I have been a HiFi bum at times. It's just that music cannot become a compulsion. The building I am renting in is undergoing a condo conversion and I have to leave in a few months. It is very nice, with an indoor pool...I am being tempted to live somewhere cheap in order to complete the audio purchases I have in mind. You are not alone...
worked at HiFI BUys 81-84 in East Lansing Michigan

Sold Nakamichi, ADS, McINtosh, DCM, Genesis, B&O.
Remember the slow embrace of cd's. Always enjoyed the clients, many professors, doctors etc. Like doing home installs, especially getting involved in new building projects. I had the bug early and was constantly upgrading as a college student.

I am now a geophysicist working in oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico (helps pay for my audio vices)

tom
Hey Tom, You must know Jolly Bob and Lance Boyle!I Worked in the old East L.A.(Lansing) HFB store while Carl was still with us. I started around 78. you forgot to mention Magnepan and NAD, at least I didn't have to live with the Mac and B&O!(I had my ARC gear, thank god)I saw Marga Beth a while ago and she seems to be doing well.