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The American Businessman Essay

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The American Businessman When you think of your average businessman, the first thought probably is a tall and slender man, who always wears black suits and is a wall street shark. However, this is not the case for Eric Merchant. He is a large, jolly man, who always wears tee shirts that relate to cars and trucks. Every weeknight, after Eric comes home from his job as a business owner, he starts to work again. He is a day in and day out workaholic, he always has something to do and time to do it. He elaborates, “I can 't just do nothing, that doesn 't seem practical to me,” Eric has always been a devoted worker for his own personal satisfaction, and for his two children, Maddy and Masen. Before his business, Merchant Automotive, became his priority in work, he was a mechanic for a Todd Wenzel dealership. However, he still ran his own small business on the side while working there. He bought parts from their supply manager and resold them on his own website. “They knew what I was doing, they just didn’t care because I wasn 't competing with them.” His managers hadn’t cared because they weren 't selling anything online, and therefore saw no problem with Eric doing so. Along with that, he would do speciality mechanic work on large diesel trucks out of his own garage. Eric had tools and knowledge to perform maintenance on specific vehicles that almost every other mechanic shop could not do. He attracted customers from around the globe by using online forum websites, spreading

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