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I deliver custom ceramics, it's okay

>>17136409
I did an internship at a garage once. Had a lot of fun with it and wanted to make it a carreer, but then moved to a different country. Nobody would honor it because my previous supervisor didn't speak English and couldn't give a reference.
Now my only job is to be a consumer buying products for cars and keeping the industry moving.

>>17136426
Custom ceramics?

I break shit and keep parts manufacturers and mechanics employed.

>>17136430
Hm. Tried looking for another internship maybe?

I suck cocks

>>17136409
Spent 2 years in a shop, fixing other people's fuckups. Lost interest in my own projects.

Went back to the mining industry, now have more time and money to play around with my own shit.

Love fixing cars as a hobby. Couldn't pay me enough to go back to doing it professionally.

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>>17136467
Yeah I deliver to other companies that use the parts for manufacturing Intel CPU's and shit. Plenty of interesting shit on the road. Guess it's not automotive related just thought I'd share

I work at an auto glass and restyle shop. Not too bad senpai.

>>17136481
Not a real job.

>>17136409
I'd measure color in the interior fabrics to make sure it would meet what we want and match well. It's crazy how dye mills can just go completely off the rails if you don't keep them on track and reject their shit and provide the right feedback numbers. It's what I do now but for military/postal/law enforcement uniforms.

>>17136409
Vatozone.

>>17137396
oldest job there is, actually

Lot porter aka Lot Bitch
Head lot bitch that is

>>17136477
When I did the first one, I lived with family, but after that I moved out and needed a paying job. This was over 5 years ago now though, so I'm not too torn up with it. I work in the electrical field and sometimes consider going to do automotive electrical, but I'm okay where I'm at now.

Heavy diesel mechanic. Mainly working on busses but we also have a fleet of 500+ rental cars, trucks and 4x4s so I do a bit of everything

>>17137526
What goal(s) do you have?

i build roads

does that count?

>>17137671
you are god

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General service tech for bridgestone its ok but im thinking about diesel or being a cop not shure

>>17136409
Service Writer at a Ford dealer

Not for me. Waiting to get a job back with aircraft then abandoning ship.

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>>17136409
Tire and lube tech

Vehicle electronics technician.

I build electric doodads into cars.

Insurance

tech at bmw independent
it's a good job. but i'd prefer to work with classics exclusively.

>>17137486
How did they pay for the whore then?

>>17138077
Bartering?

>>17138085
How did they get something to barter with?

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was a automotive tech for 6 years and got all my certificates including Journeyman and Red Seal

what a fucking soul sucking miserable job, after the 5 year mark i was done. 1 year later in a job not related to cars its finally a hobby again

>>17138092
Hunting and gathering

>>17138103
That means hunter and gatherer are both older professions. Check mate.

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>>17138116
Were they being paid to do it? To be a profession you have to be paid for it, they were eating what they caught.

>>17138144
If they used it to barter, it's currency.

I work for an auto refinance company. I see where you fucks lost control of your lives

>>17138150
Only if they caught it with the intention of bartering with it. Usually hunter-gatherers catch things with the intention of consuming it themselves, probably wouldn't have considered bartering with it until the prostitute offered their services.

>>17138167
You're just going to keep grasping at straws until I leave, aren't you? That stupid thing your buddy told you is wrong, and you're a sucker for just accepting it without any critical thinking. Have a good life, fuccboi.

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>>17138097

I hear ya.
See >>17136516

Other techs I worked with were miserable because they decided to turn their passion into a career.

>>17136409
I work in stamping. A coil of steel comes in, they are cut down to a specific size and shape, and then run through a press to form a part.

I was an automotive journalist for quite a few years. I started as a photographer and then started writing as well, and mostly did motorsports and classic car stuff. The majority of my work was for no-name third string blogs and trade magazines, though.

After that I went to work for a tuning shop that specialized in M3s and turning them into track/race cars. We did everything from routine maintenance to corner balancing to full turnkey race car builds, including cages and other fabrication. We also did quite a bit of R&D and testing for aftermarket companies, and had a few of our own products as well. (Mostly variants of third-party aftermarket parts, but also a few totally unique items.)

I did a whole mixed bag of stuff there - some fab work but never the actual welding, just prepping material and fixtures, some wrenching but mostly specialty stuff like building shocks and doing race alignments, and a lot of office stuff including marketing/media, coordinating day-to-day operational stuff (used oil pickups, equipment maintenance, restocking consumables, ordering parts, etc.), managing the junior techs, and working with customers. Oh, and a bit of R&D work, mostly researching new techniques and trends.

It was fun but I eventually left, mostly out of frustration with the way the business was being run. (The owner was an excellent fabricator and mechanic, but a horrible business owner.) I'm still pretty heavily "networked" in the auto industry, but I don't work in it anymore, though I may end up going back. (I eventually want to open a machine shop with a focus on short-run production for motorsports applications.)

I work at NAPA motherfuckers

>>17138610
>never the actual welding, just prepping
Not a real job.

I drive a taxi

Gas station counter clerk

Apprentice in an engine and machine shop.

>>17138660
Sorry.

Used to sell parts at a retail shop (CSK). Built a few engines on the side, mostly Chev 60° V6 for dune buggies. All of that was over a decade ago.

>>17136409
neet

detailer
job is ok but the pay is piss poor

I show up at dealerships and talk to service managers and techs about what they're doing wrong for a few hours, then I go to lunch.
I talk on the phone a lot too, because people love asking questions.
Every once in a while I take a bunch of pictures of something that's broken and write a report about it.
Even more occasionally someone does something right and I drive over and tell them "good job."
It's pretty cool.

>>17139854
Field service engineer?

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CDL driver

Currently Subi tech. Been wrenching for 20 years and I guess I'm the only one who likes my job. I like the fact that everyday is different and my job is problem solving. I'd hang myself if I had to sit at a computer all day.

>>17139994

Correct

>>17140050
>dealership
>every day is different
Wanna know how I know you're lying?

>>17136409
Industrial/Hydraulics/Motors/Robotics/Controls Engineer.
I get to see horror as it is made, with every year the bodies becoming more bloated.

Maserati Tech, been there for 3 months. It's pretty cool. I wanna move to Porsche when I feel confident.

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>>17137924
Have you considered PLCs and robotics? We desperately need people that can turn a spanner. Integrators can gain experience and test into so many certs they have a well padded resume after just a few months on the job. Pay is really good too, but it may involve travel (as if that's a problem).
>>17138660
You're alright.

Tech at an indy euro shop. Been there 5 years. Best job ive had

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>>17140337
You'll feel right at home going from Ghiblis to Cayennes, they are equally shit

write for autotrader dot com slash oversteer

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>>17140460
shoo.

>>17136409
I install seatbelts in Ford trucks 4 days a week. I only regret not getting hired before the recession, in which case I could have potentially started at a much higher pay rate before the Ford/UAW contract negotiations that followed. And for the record, I don't shill the company on /o/, so miss me with those shitposts.

how hard is working in a tire shop?

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i'm a mechanic
just not for cars

>>17140562
Extremely easy until you get a set of low pro runflats

>>17140562
It get quite tiring.

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I work for a crane company, I'm a truck driver and mostly haul rigging and counter weights and random junk for clients but I hope to some day get into operating these.

this is a Grove GMK 7450, my company has one of these and one GMK 6400.

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Toyota tech reporting

>>17140375
I'm open to it if the money is there bro. Tell me who I need to contact. 7 years of USAF aircraft maintenance experience.

>>17138667
What do you mean? Are you insinuating that I'm bullshitting or just saying that what I did doesn't qualify as a "real" role?

Carpenter, but I put a 2x4 under a window with a broken elevator so I guess this counts?

>>17140605
Add a really steep drop center and TPMS sensors for extra fun.

Jiffy Lube Lower Bay Tech reporting in.
>don't see sunlight
>hot
>cant piss
>scolded constantly by oil
>probably going to get skin cancer
>coworkers started calling me "cleetus"
>head injuries a daily occurrence
>begin to question being a "car enthusiast"
>no shower like when i worked at the dealer so smell like shit going home and make car smell like shit

Automotive Design

>>17140814
>>scolded constantly by oil
what does the mean oil say to you?

I'm a salesman at a mid sized power sports dealership.

I have all the bazar experiences the auto dealership salesmen have but my product has twice the "gotta have it now" appeal and 0 real world utility. I sell a product people don't need to idiots who are foaming at the mouth to spend money they don't have.

10/10 job though. Fun as shit, pay is good considering I don't actually work.

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>>17140747
Isn't welding like 90%prep? I can see why someone would hire someone else to handle the more tedious aspect of it.
>>17140731
Fug man. If this weren't 4chan I'd give you my info. I >>17140321 just hired a techie that quit school, dude's starting at around $35 +20(possible in bonuses) k a year with no experience, we're paying for training and some classes at his most convenient community college. Once he gets experience, employee retention becomes a problem since there's a shortage and there's always a more established company willing to pay them more. Fuck.
Here's something I usually give out to people that appear to be interested :

https://pastebin.com/c9kVUDxK

Additionally, IFPS certification tests will give you certs you may be interested. Given your hands on background, I'd suggest the Hydraulics/pneumatic master certs, don't know what the typical pay rate is for those. In these fields, it pays to diversify.
Also, if you know some aircraft techies/mechies, ask them about their hydraulics systems, I have a vague memory of someone telling me they were making heaps of cash working with skydrol stuff.
if you have any questions, email me here, hopefully I can get into this inbox, with a timestamped picture of the skyline/rx7/truck and I'll see how I can help.
[email protected]
pic related. The specialists are the comfy air conditioned office jobs, just look at prints all day and size things up to meet the client's requirements. Mechanics/master do everything.

>>17140840
Awful things

>>17140840
"quit your job faggot"

>>17140867
can am mule/buggy/snowmobile salesman?

>>17140983
PPAP specialist. Ask me anything.

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>>17141000
Have you ever worked with a Chrysler subcontractor/what's your opinion of Chrysler qc?

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>>17136570
Cars on fire is always /o/ related.

>>17140867
>>17141000
>PPAP specialist.
>doing work
yeah, if only people realized the value in a well experienced floor manager and a few cmm's for employees to use you'd be out of a job.

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>>17136409
worked at a dealership as a lot attendant. good summer job for teenagers looking to get into detailing and sales but otherwise it's a pretty shit job.

pic related, one of the many nights no cars sold which meant mine got detailed for the dozenth time.

>>17140912
PM me on instagram

@forcedinduct1on

>>17141231
don't have instagram.

>>17141266
Well shit lol

Body shop customer service rep after six years in dealerships. Way easier to deal with customers since they're more focused on wanting to get their shit fixed after accidents than bitching about warranty.

2 years trade school and 2.5 years as tech at a really shit tier private shop. Left that shit show and worked out of my garage for a bit.

Looking for a job now because fuck working without a lift. Might start working at Honda next week.

>>17141275
Text you instead.
415*682/1632

>>17141275
>>17141326
don't be stupid.

>>17140912
I emailed you.

>>17141355
cool. I'm jetlagged as fuck, I'm hitting the sack. I'll upload some books and references tomorrow.

>>17137905
why not become a mechanic for the police? i had a friend who does this. he is a mechanic for NYPD. makes 40$ a hour

>>17141371
Sounds good man

>>17141393
Goodnight babe

5 years as a Ford tech, nearly a year as a diesel tech, miserable as ever, at least I make a lot more now. Cheap whiskey numbs the pain.

>>17141433
How is it being a ferd tech? I hear they are about the best domestic company to work for now days.

>>17140912
>Isn't welding like 90%prep? I can see why someone would hire someone else to handle the more tedious aspect of it.

It wasn't even really that I was hired for that, more just that we were a small shop and I was generally the one free to help with stuff like that. It was usually stuff like "hey anon, can you wire wheel these pieces for me?" or "notch these tubes while I weld these ones up." At another shop I probably would have welded stuff up as well, but our boss was really proud of his TIG skills and made them a selling point, so everything had to be welded by him.

>>17136409

no

>>17141380
>makes 40$ a hour

fucking unions

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>>17141456
Depends what stealership you work for.

Deep in the saltbelt it honestly sucked as a flat rate tech, at least for me. So many windstar rear axles, subframe mounts, freestar torque convertors and rear patch panels, all a bunch of BS that pays shit.

Nothing beats pulling in your 3rd fusion headliner recall in a row as the guy next to you pulls in PDI after PDI.

IDK, i think all dealerships suck. I make way more hourly as a diesel tech, even if I have to work on shitty dirty trucks all day.

>>17141501
yep. they are also why although that man has a job, bringing up his pay is irrelevant since it's impossible to get into competition with him.

>>17136409
Diesel performance, emissions and after treatment calibration engineer.

Independent Dump Truck Driver

>>17141514
yeah I would change professions if I had to move to the salt belt for whatever reason. I will probably stick to working as a tech for 10 more years unless something comes up or the trade changes with how retarded cars are getting with complex systems. I like the work, just the pay is shit. Everybody says Honda is gravy for times, so thats why I want to try them.

I don't like diesel that much. Powerstrokes interest me slightly. Not big rigs.

>>17141501
>>17141532

city jobs offer the best pay no other can give.

>impossible to get into competition with him

i worked with him for 3yrs. he is a RETARD. you DONT have to be a master tech to land a job with the city (NYC).

the way to get a job with them is pretty much this
>sign up for city mechanic test(which comes out every 4 yrs or so)
>you take a multiple choice test
>if you score high enough they also make you take a hands on test (which is nothing hard like diagnose a bad circuit)
>if you pass your name gets put on a list (the higher you score the better your list number, number 1 being called first and so on)

i took that test a year ago and never heard anything. i know i did bad anyways. you have to be more book smart then hands on to get a high score

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>>17141608

NYC civil service jobs are enigmas. The selection process is a mystery and no amount of asking questions online will help because nobody knows (and those that claim to know are shitters).

After taking the test and being put on the list, it's all up to fate. Some people give up waiting for the job and move on with life, live in another state, start a new career, marry and have kids, and 5 years later you get a crumpled up mail from NYC saying that you got the job.

Anyways, you probably didn't get the job. You have to nearly score perfectly on the exam, have some good-boy points and be a veteran.

Engineer in the M division

>>17141646

The M probably stands for "gay" haha

>>17141655
You sure showed him

I scrape my keys on cars that are better than mine

>>17138780

>Machine shop
Jelly as fuk tbqhfamalam