[MotoSook]

Too bad you are not in the Chicago area. I'm barely in business, and I have to turn away work because I don't have time to work on more than one client's cars at any one time. I'm working two jobs really, and I would love to cut a master tech into the biz with a share of the profits, not just the hourly rate, so I can free up my time for more of the engineering type work.

Ever since I started visiting shops with my Pops when I was 8 or so years old (Pops always had a beater that needed work), I started developing a sense of the environment and since then I've never paid a wrench to fix my cars. Pops became friends with some of those old time wrenches, and we got to know how those guys were treated.

Good luck with what ever you decide to do, and best wishes for your parents. I know what it's like to care for elderly parents.