Well, this may turn into a philosophical discussion about working as a mechanic which may not be a bad thing. The request was done in the first post. Not too much more needs to be said.
That having been said, I think that mechanic's work is rather tough. I do a lot of it myself (I've logged at least 8 hours a day on my car for the last 7 days), so I know.
I have a friend that owns a small one man shop that does exclusively air cooled Porsches. He is not that much younger than me, so I say he's 55ish. He refuses to buy a lift saying that crawling around keeps him limber and exercised. Well, I'm limber and over-exercised then, 'cause I ain't got no stinkin' lift either.
The point? Even with all the best tools and support, mechanical work takes a lot of patience and is tiring at best 5-6 days a week. And the worst part is that the business side is all wrong. It's like hospitals for profit, something I'm vehemently against.
But, how do you pay the rent if you're doing the job for simply altruistic reasons? You can't. So, mechanics mostly get a commission as part or all their pay. The pressure is on now, babe.
And, that's where the fun ends. If any of you professional mechanics are making strong 5 figures, or even 6, and you can say you are having fun every day working on some people's dirty pigs, bake me some crow. If I could afford it, I'd pick and choose what I wanted to do to my car, something shop employed mechanics really don't get to do.
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