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Road Side Pub
Graduated from Universal Technical Institute (UTI). Here's my take.
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<blockquote data-quote="bobby_0081" data-source="post: 14203799" data-attributes="member: 159056"><p>I am a veteran and was a mechanic for the Active Duty Air Force between 2000 and 2004. My experience got me nothing because I didn't have the ASE certs. I got a job at the parts counter at a Ford dealer and that lasted 90 days and then in 2005 I went to work as a lube tech for a Buick, GMC dealership and was being paid $12.00 an hour. I started getting my GM certifications and all I did was tires, LOF's and warranty stuff like tailgate cables, and putting the stop leak tabs in the Buick's with the 3.8 V6's. The service writers had their favorites and they always got all of the good paying work while guys like me and even more experienced guys sat doing the idiot work. I was very unhappy and within a year I took a job working on Automated carwash equipment. That was a great job but I never made more than 12.75 and hour even after being with that company for 2 years, I then moved on to working in a chemical plant as a plant operator and in 2008 I got a full time position with the Air National Guard as a vehicle mechanic and a WG-10. I left the chemical plant job after 3 years and was only making 15.75 an hour and took the National Guard full time job as a WG-10. I have worked on many things going back to my start as a cleanup boy in an auto/body shop and I can still remember the first customer car I ever worked on. I changed a master cylinder when I was only 16 in between sweeping up piles of bondo dust and old sand paper. I also had a job when I was 18 running custom exhaust and the day I got it was the same day I learned how to bend pipe and Mig weld. I had never done either before. Of all the jobs I had I liked the carwash job the best. I had a company van, a ton of parts, got to go out of town frequently, and liked working on the large very complex PLC driven devices. I learned a lot of plumbing, and hydraulics. If I would have gotten a raise I would have never left that job but I am also glad I did because one of the guys I worked with many years ago still works there and barely makes 15 and hour but it works for him because he's a retired Marine and disabled vet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobby_0081, post: 14203799, member: 159056"] I am a veteran and was a mechanic for the Active Duty Air Force between 2000 and 2004. My experience got me nothing because I didn't have the ASE certs. I got a job at the parts counter at a Ford dealer and that lasted 90 days and then in 2005 I went to work as a lube tech for a Buick, GMC dealership and was being paid $12.00 an hour. I started getting my GM certifications and all I did was tires, LOF's and warranty stuff like tailgate cables, and putting the stop leak tabs in the Buick's with the 3.8 V6's. The service writers had their favorites and they always got all of the good paying work while guys like me and even more experienced guys sat doing the idiot work. I was very unhappy and within a year I took a job working on Automated carwash equipment. That was a great job but I never made more than 12.75 and hour even after being with that company for 2 years, I then moved on to working in a chemical plant as a plant operator and in 2008 I got a full time position with the Air National Guard as a vehicle mechanic and a WG-10. I left the chemical plant job after 3 years and was only making 15.75 an hour and took the National Guard full time job as a WG-10. I have worked on many things going back to my start as a cleanup boy in an auto/body shop and I can still remember the first customer car I ever worked on. I changed a master cylinder when I was only 16 in between sweeping up piles of bondo dust and old sand paper. I also had a job when I was 18 running custom exhaust and the day I got it was the same day I learned how to bend pipe and Mig weld. I had never done either before. Of all the jobs I had I liked the carwash job the best. I had a company van, a ton of parts, got to go out of town frequently, and liked working on the large very complex PLC driven devices. I learned a lot of plumbing, and hydraulics. If I would have gotten a raise I would have never left that job but I am also glad I did because one of the guys I worked with many years ago still works there and barely makes 15 and hour but it works for him because he's a retired Marine and disabled vet. [/QUOTE]
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