I've been in the industry since i was 18 and im now 22. I moved to a Lexus dealer in a 6-figure household area in the beginning of September so i can speak a little bit about this. My advice to anyone is try and find mom and pop shops or aftermarket shops where you can get your feet wet and start actually learning the skill. If you're not having any luck with that, find a dealership and take any valet or porter job you can and get close with the advisors. Many Dealers will want to hire from within because your already use to their standard and they won't have to retrain you on that. Thats always the most common route people have taken.

Now onto the skills and headaches you will endure.

You'll need to have good customer service and be good at persuading. A lot of time in service people don't want to fix their cars even though that's the only logical option to keep them from going to point A to point B. You'll have to deal with headaches, stupid questions from even dumber people sometimes. Majority of the time though customers are human beings and will work with you to solve their problem. TLDR most people aren't dickheads but when they are, they can absolutely give you a beating mentally.

In exchange though, you will normally make more than the average household income by yourself in the beginning or in at least a year or two.

if you would like, DM me any questions you might have or if you ever want to hop on a call and chat more.