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A flat rate car mechanic is a very hard way to make a living. It is about as far as you can be from what you are doing now. Every dime you make as a mechanic you have to earn, and you have to earn it by being faster, smarter and better than the next guy who will have your job in a heartbeat if you mess up or slow down. Very different than enlisted military where you almost can not get fired.There most likly will be no paid vacations, paid time off for errands, birthday or anything. No retirement plan. Benefits are going to be few compared to what you have had.
Listen to your counselor and work on your own cars for your own entertainment and get a gravy job for money.
I was a flat rate foreign car mechanic, over the road truck mechanic and a heavy equipment mechanic. I had my own bus. as a portable heavy equipment mechanic/welder. I was also enlisted in the Army and know that game. I told my son to join the military or get a goverment job of some sort, it sure beats working for a living.
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