Auto Repair Careers
Most aren't willing to take that risk as let's face it a shop can lose money for years teaching the guy and then when he is actually starting to make you some money he get's swept away by a better paying deal or whatever the reason and your back to square one again...seen it time and time again.
I went thought that in my career... I worked for a Ford dealership 88 though 92. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, if it didn't come in on hook, nothing to do. I would spend 5 for gas, 5 for lunch, and loose a 20 playing poker in the break room in the course of a 10 hour day. Lucky to get 2 oil changes and 2 0r 3 state inspections thrown my way all day. I learned that the service writer had his favorites/who he was taking care of. I had spent several years in machine shops, plant maintenance in textile mills, wide variety. I simply got board of running the same parts again and again. Thats how I ended up a dealership. Anyway.... a couple of times a vehicle would come back with the same problem again and again. The "favorite" of the service writer had got it out but only for a short time. One service writer took a chance on me and told me the history of this vehicle and said "I'm turning this over to you. Find the problem and fix it!". I did (patting a younger self on the back). Then the guy that had gotten so much training and education from them left to another dealership. I was called into the owners office with service mang'r that one service writer and told... "You have been found to be as good as / maybe better than David (who we lost). I'll never know how much Ford training that guy got but I figure he could sign into any Ford dealership. Anyway... We'll pay of training, transportation, hourly wages, and all, but only if you will sign an agreement to stay here for 2 years. "NOPE! I aint signing ****".
As soon as I learned there was a opening in a local machine shop, I went back to that.
The pool gets deeper... Little over a year later The boss at machine shop says, "you have a phone call up front". I go to the phone and its the Ford dealership office manager. "You have money in our retirement plan that we need to sort out". I'm like can you mail me something?. She says nope. You'll need to come here. So I get off at end of shift and go there to find the are locked and loaded. Before I can sign the 1st piece of paper here, the dealership owner, a different service writer, and different service mang'r are waiting to talk with me in a adjacent office. She says, "Mr.*** wants to talk with you". I go in, shake hands and sit down. Dealership owner who I knew asked "What will it take to get you back on our program?". I said "Look... these automobiles keep changing year after year. So two years from now, Will I need to sign agreement?' Forget I asked. Feck all that. I'll just stay when I am. Bottom line... One can't learn everything. If you job hope and learn a whole lot, in the end you'll just take some of it to your grave Unless you post it on line LOL.
