I can agree on the hard on the body stuff. I have been in the body industry my entire life. Currently a massive shortage in workers actually commands a pretty amazing wage. Body or painter techs WITH experience and flat rate average 80 to 120k a year. Hard to say no to that.
I would agree with you, body techs make way more that automotive techs. I actually am self employed and am an outside vendor for body shops and do module programming, diagnostics and ADAS calibrations.
