# I wanna go to school to do something with cars

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wanna-go-to-school-to-do-something-with-cars/194233
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**Created:** [December 16, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wanna-go-to-school-to-do-something-with-cars/194233 "2007-12-16T16:02:02Z")
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### Author: ![4doors5gears](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/4doors5gears/32/6006_2.png) [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-wanna-go-to-school-to-do-something-with-cars/194233/12 "2007-12-17T07:55:49Z")

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> [@Media hyped threats to America](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/media-hyped-threats-to-america/33960/5):
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> Working on cars for a living is highly unrecomended.
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> I started out ASE master certified, with insp/emis licence. Worked as a dealer apprentice, but shop politics got the better of me. I made my master soo much money, that the second tech in the shop was going to quit if I didn’t rotated to him. Then I had to be his bitch. It was altimatum time for the boss, and he called my bluff. See ya later Chrysler. Then came flat rate at firestone. The one thing I can say is if I was going to work on general repair agian I’d go back to dealerships. Don’t work for a place that open seven days a week. People always wait until the weekend to get their cars worked on, and you have to rely on bringing 20+ hours on a saturday just to hit 40.
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> Working on automotive performance is a little bit different. I have people busting my balls over the price of a roll cage that is going to be a permanant safety feature. Then you have people that need a wheel bearing and pay just as much. The internet has killed customers. People walk in and give a hard time cause they can get something $10 cheaper on line.
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> Its all pretty mentaly and phyisacaly demanding. You can make it if you use your head, and hussle.

> [@My screen name.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-screen-name/33959/15):
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> I had though of going to Wyotech or somewhere similar, but in the end I thought about. If I go into my garage to relax and wrench on my car because i’m burnt out from my job. How would I relax if that WAS my job. I enjoy playing with cars to much to let a job ruin it.

Good food for thought right there.

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