So I talked to a muffler shop owner yesterday while my car was on the lift

That's nice....went to college it now work with Archie bunker

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd hire someone to work on cars that was bringing me their car to be worked on.

I was put on disability from the fire dept one week before we went on covid lockdown. I heard nearly all the guys got the vax.

LMAO you will never make what you do in IT at a muffler shop

Im in IT and I hate it but its helping me become debt free so worth it for now.

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Show me anyone that's fit anymore lol


Try farming.....

You better marry the snap on tools guy's ugly sister. lol

WE KNOW

I think most people have developed social anxiety. It makes it hard to leave your home or do much of anything but get what you need and come home. People just feel like they are not perfect enough for the world. Perhaps even feel dismissed, ignored, and slighted by others, when working in person. Even families are not very supportive on one another anymore. You income just goes to paying bills. Eve when you get ahead, you get behind because something is going to break.

Most people do not want to work customer service jobs. That is probably the number one job that is offered in the USA. Service workers are treated poorly and their is no respect. Entitled, frustrated people are everywhere too. You don't even want to be caught dead doing that sort of job either. The wages are low too. Most jobs will demand a lot as if you live for your job. There is little work/ life balance, no feelings of accomplishment at the end of the day.

No loyalty either. Employers stopped being loyal to their employee's and thus employees are not longer loyal to their employers. Even if you are a class act and try to give your boss two week notice when switching jobs, you can expect to be let go right their on the spot. And, of coarse sometime people just quite without warning either, or just stop showing up. Which is the ultimate screw you to their work places.

I've had a stock portfolio since I was 16, and I have been investing since I was about 12. I began with CD's and learned from there...I simply used my income to buy into the market and then retired on it...

He didn’t get the pun...

There is an amazing amount of jobs in the surrounding area of Joplin MO. I saw a list yesterday that boggled my mind. Not just wait-staff but good paying jobs. Employers are upping the ante in wages.

It seems that human nature is once again in play!

There seems to be a prevailing surrender to reduce ambition, expectation, and perseverance to surviving on an
unearned income that arrives in the the bank without fail.

We've been fostering this surrender for decades, to the point that it is an acceptable choice of paths.

Nah, they wrinkle and distort...If you bend it right the first time, you would not have to straighten it...

Here's the kick. If you are the best, you can fix a car in ten minutes, but why should you only charge ten minutes labor? No, the skill and talent that allows me to diagnose and fix a car in just a few minutes, where the other guys are scratching their head trying to figure it out, allows me to charge MORE...

all I hear all day long is retards with non functional mufflers creating noise hell on earth

they shut down all the Lincoln tech type auto training schools you know why?

take a look at used car prices. that's why.

it was done to KEEP YOU POOR and buying new cars instead of fixing your cars up for 20 or 30 years

Employers don't want to hire anyone over 50 either anymore. My spouse and I have both tried to get professional type jobs in our field for years.

Younger people at work do everything they can to drive you out of the work force. They are not helpful, rude, politically motivated bigots, talk sh*t behind you back at work/ make fun of you, and even set you up to fail. They can be very nasty.

All the employers want 20 and 30 something's. Even look at the FBI recruitment page. They all want early college grad. It you are over 50 you are just thrown away. Might as well start you own side business.

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I see what you did there!

LOL!! Good one!

Did you follow the flat rate manual? There is a new vernacular I think it is called flag time.

--->the joke
--->your head

I use my pipe to smoke my weed!!!!!

I was eating breakfast at Carl’s Jr. the other morning and overheard a manager on the phone firing a kid who called in. Twenty minutes later, said kid came in the store to get his things. I was walking out by then and he was in such a mood that I stepped aside to let him out the door first. He slammed the door open with such force that it came slamming back toward me. He reached to stop it from hitting me and apologized but then once outside he had to tell me why he was so angry. He said he got fired for calling in one time and that his friend was dying and he needed to be with his friend. He then explained that he was only working there “to help them out” (meaning Carl’s Jr.) I just said, oh well, lots of places are hiring, you can probably find another job. But really I was thinking, what kind of attitude is that? They just don’t want to work.

It really is (especially if you don't have the right tools). I changed my discs and brake pads a couple weeks ago and felt it the next day. Having a lift would have made it much easier but still. Same goes with construction. I have the "luxury" of being a keyboard monkey most days of the week.

If you are older too it is hard to get loans or grants to help you pay for retaining for a new career either. If you hold a degree it is is even worse. You get no help at all.

Which is stupid, because most employers if your degree is over ten years your knowledge is considered dated. This is especially true if your degree and your job/career do not match up. you could have gone to college to be one thing, did that one thing for a while but eventually end up in something else related, but now does to work out for you. If you hold a degree there are no safety nets for retraining.

It is worse because if you have not been in that field in which your degree was earned, than you might as well not have had a degree in the first place. Your knowledge is considered dated and you might as well have been a HS graduate.

I say go for it, least you will be free of the cubicle life. Meaning the hamster cage.

Laughed my motherfucking ass off. Beautiful comment 5*

I took my Toyota 4x4 pickup to a muffler shop one time, this old school muffler guy put a header on the 4 cylinder engine and then split two of the pipes off to the right side, and two of the pipes off to the left side...he made a dual exhaust with two mufflers and to pipes tipping out behind the rear tires

22RE truck ran like a champ!!

If I saw two old overweight dudes getting it done I'd call the cops!

I see what you did there.

People that bring god into every discussion.

There's no standard for custom work...

On the diagnostic side there were standard prices, but when it comes to labor, I operated by the job and not by the hour unless it's a long tedious job like drilling a head or manifold bolt extraction...