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after managing a body shop, i got offered a job with state farm as an appraiser. starting salary was 46K (job was in grand rapids, michigan) plus company car. the whole body shop industry is filled with lots of black magic, underhanded dealings, etc, but i guess any business has those aspects.
when i managed the shop, the funniest guy was the local inspector for an unnamed insurance company, as well as the owner of a towing company that magically got EVERY bit of business from the same insurance company he was associated with. and lots of "totaled" cars that he estimated were back on the road with clean titles.
a good, solid job would to be an inspector for State Farm, or to do the appraising stuff, and get onto a CAT (catastrophe team.) hard work, that's often saddening when you put a price on somebody's whole life's worth of possessions, but lots of money in that line.
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-mike
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