In the original script for Groundhog Day, what was Phil Connors' profession?

In the original script for Groundhog Day, what was Phil Connors’ profession? He was a used-car salesman.

Danny Rubin’s original script conceived Phil Connors as a used-car salesman, rather than the television weatherman played by Bill Murray in the finished film. That change substantially reshaped the character: the released Phil begins as a cynical, self-important broadcaster sent to cover Punxsutawney’s Groundhog Day festivities.

The original screenplay also differed in structure and tone. Rubin’s draft began with Phil already caught in the repeating day, so the audience gradually inferred what was happening. Harold Ramis and Rubin revised the material into a more accessible comedy, showing Phil arrive in Punxsutawney and establishing his profession and personality before the loop begins.

The answer is easy to confuse with Ned Ryerson, Phil’s persistent former schoolmate, who sells life insurance. “Weatherman” is correct for the finished movie, but “used-car salesman” is the answer for Rubin’s original script.