At the “best” shop I was working at I was only getting $18/hr despite having experience working on expensive ass vehicles. And 4 years of schooling
Air-cooled turbo Porsches, Mercedes, Bentleys, Maserati, range rovers, BMW/Alpina, even had my hands working on vipers and R8s.
I’ve fought and fought for higher pay, even jumped a few shops, I wasn’t the quickest around the shop but my working was 100x better. Customers appreciated it and even followed me from shop to shop when I moved because of my work.
I even had the skills / know how to do shit that most shop dont do anymore. (Turn rotors, carb adjustments, rebuilding distributors/alternators/starters) hell I’ve even picked up how to do string alignments from my days working at the local race track.
If you want to make money in the automotive industry, car sales is literally the only position that pays well.
I quit the industry right before covid became a “real threat” in early 2020.
Since then I went into the solar industry working as a service coordinator making $31/hr to sit at home, and send emails to customers.
Now my snap-on tool box just sits in my dining room collecting dust, I don’t have a garage at my current place so I literally had to put our dinning room set in storage just to make room for my tool box to be IN the house 😅 girlfriend ain’t to happy about it.
I’d rather be a dishwasher at Texas roadhouse just to get free rolls, than to go back to the industry. The ONLY way I would consider going back is if I was working M-F, holidays off, $35+hr (NO FLAT RATE) at a high end dealerships such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, etc.
100%.
At the “best” shop I was working at I was only getting $18/hr despite having experience working on expensive ass vehicles. And 4 years of schooling
Air-cooled turbo Porsches, Mercedes, Bentleys, Maserati, range rovers, BMW/Alpina, even had my hands working on vipers and R8s.
I’ve fought and fought for higher pay, even jumped a few shops, I wasn’t the quickest around the shop but my working was 100x better. Customers appreciated it and even followed me from shop to shop when I moved because of my work.
I even had the skills / know how to do shit that most shop dont do anymore. (Turn rotors, carb adjustments, rebuilding distributors/alternators/starters) hell I’ve even picked up how to do string alignments from my days working at the local race track.
If you want to make money in the automotive industry, car sales is literally the only position that pays well.
I quit the industry right before covid became a “real threat” in early 2020.
Since then I went into the solar industry working as a service coordinator making $31/hr to sit at home, and send emails to customers.
Now my snap-on tool box just sits in my dining room collecting dust, I don’t have a garage at my current place so I literally had to put our dinning room set in storage just to make room for my tool box to be IN the house 😅 girlfriend ain’t to happy about it.
I’d rather be a dishwasher at Texas roadhouse just to get free rolls, than to go back to the industry. The ONLY way I would consider going back is if I was working M-F, holidays off, $35+hr (NO FLAT RATE) at a high end dealerships such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, etc.
i hear colorado doesnt really have any good performance shops and most of them shut down quickly after opening up
Where did you hear that from? Colorado has a pretty strong racing community.