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

The logic behind an hourly rate is absurd:

A lazy unskilled dildo will end up making you more than a professional if you charge by the hour...

Working for shops is too much. You demand too much of their time and there is NO EXCEPTIONS. 20 min late your fired. Well fuck you Il go work for myself. Fuck auto shop bosses never met one who was not a greedy big mouth mean asshole. .

I spent 12 years practicing the skill and buying the tools to enable me to do the job in ten minutes.....your paying for the years not the minutes.

nobody wants to work
he has work backed up
the employees I saw were over 50 years old

I am contemplating quitting my IT job and going to work in a muffler shop, at least my work will have some meaning.

A good mechanic who knows his shit and has the proper tools and setup can EASILY make 300 grand per year these days. A muffler shop hire will be lucky to afford the basic needs, mainly because people like Brief own them

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1000 a day minimum. Most trained mechanics get 50-80 dollars an hour WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE. If they work for themselves it can amount to 200 an hour easily.

Same with a welder or a carpenter.

A welder with his own equipment can contract out for half a million / year in some cases.

On the other hand, a trained IT worker will be lucky to top 40 grand to start. Everyone wants to go into IT these days, or some job connected to it thinking it is the wave of the future.

In the meantime their cars have to be fixed, their bridges built and their buildings constructed, and none of them have the skills to pour piss out of a leaky boot..

I have a degree in mechanical engineering and training in electrical engineering, but to be honest with you I made twice as much actually working with my hands AND my mind.

And it's a lot more rewarding work.

"first off you have 0 experience"
WTF do you know about me? other than I work in IT now.

Yea some are.

But so are the people who made that phone or computer you are using.

So are most doctors.

The world is profit driven and thats the true issue.

I heard that kind of work is exhausting...

Nope

Trained mechanics these days are topping out 100k in the dealership, thats having years of experience and certifications and doing warranty work.

Working for a private guy you can expect maybe 20 an hour, maybe more after working for him several years.

Its the overhead of a shop that drives up the cost of repairs.

But heres the thing, people are too cheap today.

They would rather drive their car into the ground and get a new one.

yeah, working for someone else....



A smart mechanic doesnt work for someone else.

yeah, working for someone else....



A smart mechanic doesnt work for someone else.

A good mechanic has a valuable skill that no machine or computer can replace. A computer can plug into a car and show the mechanic how things are functioning but it still takes an experienced human mind to unravel the information.

And for those of you who insist mechanics are dumb monkeys, these days they have to basically be electronic engineers and computer IT techs just to diagnose all of the complex electrical systems of a modern car.

nobody wants to work
he has work backed up
the employees I saw were over 50 years old

I am contemplating quitting my IT job and going to work in a muffler shop, at least my work will have some meaning.

nobody wants to work
he has work backed up
the employees I saw were over 50 years old

I am contemplating quitting my IT job and going to work in a muffler shop, at least my work will have some meaning.

I saw 2 overweight old dudes getting it done.

And if I knew his attitude, it's what I would have done as soon as I learned how to operate a screwdriver. Air rachets scare me so it's been hard for me to stay in the garage for more than 2-3 minutes at a time.



Think about that, folks, I'm an unskilled laborer, pretending to be a mechanic, working on the car that can kill you or your family any time you drive it.

I heard that kind of work is exhausting...

nobody wants to work
he has work backed up
the employees I saw were over 50 years old

I am contemplating quitting my IT job and going to work in a muffler shop, at least my work will have some meaning.

You spent hundreds of hours learning how to tighten two nuts and you call mechanics low IQ cretins?



If you were REALLY smarter than they were you wouldn't have had a whole engine replaced because it had a bad MAF sensor



Yes, there are dishonest mechanics, and they see a Mc Mansion type cubical class retard coming from a mile away in his fancy fucking crossover SUV.

Most of them would never rip off a fellow working man, but there are exceptions to every rule.

Yea so you pay what 3k or more a month to rent a shop and then pray people come to you ?

Seen many shops start and close in the first year due to lack of business.

nobody wants to work
he has work backed up
the employees I saw were over 50 years old

I am contemplating quitting my IT job and going to work in a muffler shop, at least my work will have some meaning.

I saw 2 overweight old dudes getting it done.

you must be a mechanic. You have no reading compehension skill.

Did you feel the wind as that went over your head?