The Macon Telegraph Sonny Childs steps up to the podium, grasps the microphone in a burly fist and brings the crowd to order at Heart of Georgia Auto Auction. One by one, a steady stream of late-model vehicles passes down the line. One by one, Childs sells them off, in a ritual repeated each Wednesday morning at the auction house on Ga. 247 in south Macon. Every day is different in the auction business.
Most people are in occupations they hate, but they're making a good living at it.
I enjoy getting up and going to work. It's something different every day. Childs is one of about 800 licensed auctioneers in the state. That's all I ever wanted to do. I knew what I wanted to do since I was a little boy.