Want to work on cars

You have to have two years of real world experience to get ASE certified.

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>have to be ASE certified to get a job
>have to have a job to become ASE certified

Why

Don't listen to anyone telling you mechanical engineering will get you into the automotive manufacturing industry. There are few openings nowadays and it is highly competitive.

Also, engineer is a desk job.

You literally don't have to be certified to get a job as a mechanic.

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OP I'm kind of in your position too. I'll graduate HS at the end of the year, and I really don't know what I want to do.
I kind of want to go into some kind of engineering because I'm really good at sciences and I love upper level math, but I can't imagine sitting at a desk all day, even if the pay is great.
I'm really tempted to save up a little money to get me started, get some certifications and open a little private tuner shop in my town. I'd love to work on cars, and I love modifying things. There aren't many places like that near me, so I think I'd get some business. Also, for custom work like that I could probably charge out the ass in labor.

Tl;dr: if you like modifying cars, go into modifying cars

Do what you love with a passion and success will follow

Make America Great Again

Underage b&?

No, I just have by birthday early in the year. I'm 18 now.

>get masters in automobile engineering with a minor in business
>open speed shop
>???
>PROFIT!!!

One day.

>get some certifications and open a little private tuner shop in my town
You don't need an engineering degree for that. Mech eng. degree is pretty hard and there is a real chance you will become a self loathing CAD monkey. Thread carefully.

I'm a sophomore in mechanical engineering, keep in mind that shit is a lot of fucking work. Not to mention very hard.
On most campuses engineering is one of the highest credit majors. You'll need to take a lot of chemistry and higher level math.
Not to mention if you aren't fairly intelligent and good at problem solving and math, you're fucked.

Doing engineering is a joke these days. Everywhere you look at, you find engineers. Do business studies. Get an MBA. Spice up your skills(not easy I say) and get a 6fig salary and secure your future.

>get masters in automobile engineering with a minor in business
Wait, you mean that's possible? Like under-grad in business and post-grad in auto engineering?

Not who you're replying to, but in college you can major in one thing and minor in another. You'll have a degree in your major, and a minor certification in your minor. This is all in the same 4 year span.

Airplane mechanic. Get to work on planes, planes are designed to be worked on, get paid a lot because only those certified are allowed to touch the plane mechanically.

>hands on learning
It's what I've been doing.

>stay off the tool trucks
I have a bad habit of only buying a tool once I need it. Otherwise no buy.

Appreciate the help. Would you suggest the auto classes if you didn't have to pay for it? I'm not talking the introduction courses I mean more advanced theory or possibly engineering.

Read about this, Saw a lot of places hiring just so you can get your ASE. They seem to really like that.

i drive from service call to service call on my companies dime and work on electrical systems, this industry is desperate for specialists

I work at America's Tire/Discount Tire.
I became full time (manager) withing 11 months of starting there.
I work 50 hours a week for 15.25 an hour, I get full benefits, and if a new store opens up, I can become owner of that store and earn 120,000 a year minimum. After managers hit a quota, everything else they make is salary, and goes to them.
We get every Sunday and holiday off, techs get $700 in bonus checks a year, managers get $2500 a year.
Its FUCKING worth it.

Right now a crew chief at azp55. Currently do everything that doesn't involve a computer. Runs bays, etc. Planning to go full time. Just another person making it sound worth it.

>I want to work on cars but don't want to sit in an office all day

You sound like someone who likes video games and wants to work on them but has no idea the work that goes into it

>tfw all I want is a comfy office job

computer science is not engineering.

Kek, the Mech Engineers at my school can't operate manual mills and lathes

Speaking from experience?

It's pretty pleasant desu

>Do business studies.
>Get an MBA

youtube.com/watch?v=uMRD3IsdTFk

kys

>Doing business studies is a joke these days. Everywhere you look at, you find business majors. Do engineering. Spice up your skills(not easy I say) and get a 6fig salary and secure your future.

ftfy

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>still doing the same unfunny bit about Christmas
>CTRL+W

my man

here's the summary:

business is a saturated field, done by frat boys who are scared/shit at math but think 'amma be the next wolk of wallstrret bro!'. You don't learn any actual skills and you essentially spent $100,000 to have similar job prospects of a high school graduate.

you mean you started as a tech?

Don't worry about it. You prissy white collars sit in your air conditioned building and your gelled hair while us blue collars write you up a fat repair bill to fix your car to take home to your wife while earlier she was getting my fat wrench up her snatch hole because she likes men that like to get "dirty"

Trust me. 90% of the clients you work with will be so insufferably retarded that you will grow to hate the job. Much like any job.

Yep. Everyone has to start as a tech in order to get promoted. I didn't even know how to mount a tire. They train you on everything. But you have to have some common sense to do well.
I'd love to help answer any questions you got.

What is the actual weekly paycheck? Like take home.

Are you regular full time, 3rd man, or 2nd man.

Why does every store hire 10 retards for every good tech?

How many hours per day did you initially get working as a tech and how old were you at the time?

How do you get the managers to give you the promotions you want? Actually knowing how to do the job and treating both customers and other employees well doesn't seem to do the trick at most jobs.

Don't get a car job if you only like driving instead of actually working on cars

If you're Australian the first step is doing a Pre-Apprenticeship and then an Apprenticeship but all together that takes 4.5 years

How do you work 50 hours a week?

I get anywhere between 42-52 hours. My last one I got $655. We also get paid weekly.

I'm a 5s

We had a guy ask if he has to work when he's supposed to, or if he can just come in whenever he wants. And then we have a guy who worked 8-6 on his first day, and didn't complain once.

When I first started I was getting 20 hours a week. Then after the second week I was getting 30-35. And it's super easy to get more

.That's actually the best way. You start out as a tech, you have to become a master tech first. Crank cars out in 13 minutes, work hard, and then start running it as service coordinator. Kick ass, run the back room, and get 16 cars out an hour. Honestly, just work hard, and stay motivated.

We work open to close 5 days a week. Hours are 8-6, but as managers we have to show up early, so 7:20-6. And we never leave until all the cars aren't done. So we can be there from 7:20-7.

m8 the happiest times I can remember having is fixing shit, even something as simple as changing brake pads

That's good to hear, I made the mistake and implied that I'm into cars even though I just love to drive fast and try many different cars.

Kek

I wonder if there is anyone out there that actually thinks shit like this will happen when looking at career choices