Stay as a automotive technician or take opportunity as a verizon sales associate?

I work at Honda making on avg. 40k a year at age 23 with possibility to cap out at 60k. I'm good at what I do but I don't like working on cars, I could care less about a vehicle and its operations. I have an opportunity to become a sales associate and I'm not sure if I will be able to at least make 40k a year. I see it as a way to better my side businesses in automotive because I can't sell side work working at honda. Also thinking of contracting in construction without even working do to my connections. Should I stay as a tech or move on to sales so that I can better my network capabilities, social skills and be able to produce my own business? Any thought?

Life is too short to stay at a job that you are not happy at… And the cliche goes that the only chances a person truly ever regrets are the ones they were too afraid to take.

If the job of sales associate sounds like something you would love, then go for it. Have people told you that you could sell water to a drowning man? Do you actually enjoy the opportunity to talk people into things? Those are clear signs that your calling is in the sales and marketing arena, and you should definitely go for it.

If on the other hand you are like me and the idea of trying to sell people something they might not want makes you feel a deep sense of dread… Then sales is not for you lol… If you are good at selling people on your ideas and stuff though you can certainly make far more than 40K a year as most car salesperson positions are commission.

Pimping wares as a sales associate will in no way "better my network capabilities, social skills and be able to produce my own business"

You're good at what you do and make a living wage doing it - who gives a **** if you "could care less" doing it: it wouldn't be called "work" if it was something people enjoyed doing.