# Seeking Some Helpful Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 21, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/seeking-some-helpful-advice/249260 "2009-12-21T19:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![1stgen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1stgen/32/6288_2.png) [@1stgen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1stgen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/seeking-some-helpful-advice/249260/37 "2009-12-24T08:00:10Z")
> [@rare (NYSPEED wise) cars](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rare-nyspeed-wise-cars/27529/141): > > Background: I am a student at HVCC, studying auto mechanics, and working at St. Peter’s Nursing and Rehab Center (aka the villa) serving the residents’ dinner. The hours for working there are great because they dont conflict with my school hours so that is one thing that I like. But there are many things that I am not happy with. 1. Its boring and repetitive: everyday I come in and do the same thing over and over and its really not enjoyable. 2. Most of the people I work with SUCK. There are a few amount of them that actually put forth the effort in doing their job. The rest are a bunch of lazy fucks. One girl that works with me is absolutely crazy. She is always talking about wanting to have sex with everyone and thats just plan nasty/whorish. And she is incredibly rude. I dont know maybe it was how she was raised. 3. The pay is really gay. I make around $8.75 an hour. When I worked in the maintenance dept. for this place over the summer I was making around $10.00 an hour and loved the people I worked with. It was so much more relaxed and enjoyable, even though my job was to maintain the lawn. > /rant > My question: Does anybody have any advice as to where I could look for a job that deals with what I want to do for a profession(working on cars)? I was thinking maybe to look at like a quickie lube place just to get my feet wet and whatnot. But im not sure if it will be easy getting a job that will work around my school schedule. So any advice that is POSITIVE would be greatly appreciated. Please no crap talk/ getting off topic thanks. > -Corey Ahhh to be twenty again. You want to work in the field…whether it be at a dealer or an independent. You will learn nothing by not working hands on from the begining. Fuck skip barber, they pay for shit…you travel all the time and barely get any experience…just ask travis. LOLOL. Not to mention you will learn more by working instead of hoping to be the next best thing in racing. Reality is if you’re not pursuing it right now you are never gonna make it. You like the track? Then go there on your own and meet the people who work/live there. I spend more time at and on the track than any skip barber worker. I went to the valley and graduated with 25 or so people and only 2 still work on cars or even in the automotive field. Do you love cars? Do you love working on them all day and then go home and do the same? If not you will probably not last long in the field…or you will start to hate your work/hobby. Not to sound like I know everything but i’ve been doing this for 15 years now and i’ve learned a few things along the way. It’s tough to balance it as a hobby/lifestyle/career…If you have any questions…feel free to pm’ me. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/seeking-some-helpful-advice/249260)._