technician job experiences

I don't know......I can think of lots of reasons to "trade down" now that I am older. My last full year I worked before I got hurt on the job, I made almost 71K that year. No way I'll ever see 30K with what I am doing now, but it's a LOT less stress free. Money ain't everything.

I would consider doing nothing but busting tires and changing oil a working retirement.

No such thing around here except Wally World. Every tire shop here wants you do to brakes, suspension, alignments. All cake work, but still more than I wanna do as far as working on cars go.