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Location: Adelaide
Registered: August 2002
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Re: Any Apprentice mechanic ?
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Wed, 04 September 2002 11:08
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upsides are
: driving good cars (depending where u work!)
: learning to work on your own cars (and homejobs = $$$)
: making good contacts within the car industry 4 cheaper parts
downsides are
: crap money (esp. as an apprentice)
: never having clean hands
: treated like crap at 90% of all places
: being exposed to toxic chemicals
: not a huge room for promotion in small w/shops as most of the time the son/daughter will take over the family business
: you can't stand looking at your own car at the end of the day
i've been a mechanic for 7 years now (almost broken free thank god!), at the moment i'm foreman at audi/vw...when i first started as an apprentice i loved messing around with cars and modding mine on the weekends/holidays, about 3 years ago i "gze'd" my old rolla in my holidays and had an absolute ball doing it - now i can't stand looking at my cars on the weekend, which sucks 'cos i still love modding cars - i just can't stand working 40 hours on others and coming home to mine
once i'm out i know i'll find the fun part of mechanics again, but only as a hobby...
basically, if u love cars find a decent job that will let u love them as a past time, not a burden
my 2 cents anyway...
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