What do you do?

[bikerbill2021]

26 here, have a B.A. in media studies, but didn't end up finding or wanting a job in my field. Now I'm a Volkswagen technician, I enjoy the job very much, but I got lucky in working at a nice dealer who saw talent in me

not sure what the future holds, may end up opening my own shop, perhaps moving up the ladder and going to the corporate side of VWAG or another VW affiliate, hell theres always Porsche and Lamborghini

[Pac1373]

40, I am a Sales person and/or General or Sales Manager.
Most recently (just hired 3 weeks ago)for a National truck "Up-fitter" I sell things like Jerr-Dan Wrecker and flat deck bodies, Dump truck bodies, and Hydraulic wet lines to outfit trucks from 3/4 cab/Chassis right up to Tandem-Tandems. also cranes, Swap loaders etc, we even have our Canadian certification to officially do the "Completion" of commercial Vehicles. (Ie, they have a vin/registration when we finish them) it is SO much more interesting than selling Plumbing and Heating equipment to trades people(old gig).

I used to work labor side of industry, then I switched it up. took an inside sales role, and never looked back.
if you are smarter and better than the next guy/gal, you will Make it. I went outside sales,in a year, Corporate account management, Managed a Fastenal for a couple of years...you look for and then exploit opportunities, and grow your career.
expecting to graduate with a 2 year diploma, and score $100k + isn't likely to happen, but you can work up to it in less time than it takes people to earn a Bachelors degree... mind you Industry rolls and heaves, sometimes you get ahead, sometimes you get set back.

[Coy325i]

I agree with Pac1373; a career takes time to develop. I've watched a lot of talented people climb and seen very few skip any levels really. You pay for your education one way or the other. I don't have a lot of formal education, so it took me a long time to get to the top level of my profession. I believe an education might have gotten me here quicker, so I am driving that thought home to my kids who are just about to graduate high school. In my early 20s I took some graphic design classes at a local community college and paid cash. I quit when I got a job as an illustrator at a corrugated box company and worked there for 13 years and even went into sales, but I just didn't like it. I taught myself multimedia programming and got a job as a multimedia training developer at a large tech company in 2000. I always took every opportunity I could and learned audio/video editing and did a lot of copy writing. Now I develop online training from inception to delivery for fortune 500 companies. I don't earn a lot, but my wife was able to quit working to stay home with our two kids for 8 years and now works part time, so I can support my family at any rate. I work from home and travel on business from time to time. The work is interesting and challenging, but not too stressful, over all. I do a lot of development projects on the side as well and I donate time to nonprofits. If it wasn't kind of hard, then they wouldn't pay you anything, but I actually enjoy what I do, so I have no plans to retire until I have to for health reasons or whatever...

[ForcedFirebird]

38yrs old an play with e30's

[I got it, yes!!]

I'm 28, did a four-year apprenticeship(Marine Electrical) through my work, been working here 7 years(in July). Im now a work leader(like a supervisor, but I still work LOL), make 68k a year with no overtime(Make quite a bit more, but I do ALOT of overtime).

Get to work on these.......Best part of the job IMO

[Exodus_2pt0]

I'm 28, did a four-year apprenticeship(Marine Electrical) through my work, been working here 7 years(in July). Im now a work leader(like a supervisor, but I still work LOL), make 68k a year with no overtime(Make quite a bit more, but I do ALOT of overtime).

Get to work on these.......Best part of the job IMO

That's awesome. The guy I work with did some time working with Subs. I forget the details but he explained to me how they put them on ground power when in port. Some crazy stuff man! I thought our 480v ground power was alot.


27 here, worked on cars for 10 years and got sick of flat rate.

Now turning wrenches on locomotives and passenger cars (train cars).

Yea, I bench about 280.... thousand pounds.



Who knows what the future holds.

[I got it, yes!!]

That's awesome. The guy I work with did some time working with Subs. I forget the details but he explained to me how they put them on ground power when in port. Some crazy stuff man! I thought our 480v ground power was alot.


27 here, worked on cars for 10 years and got sick of flat rate.

Now turning wrenches on locomotives and passenger cars (train cars).

Yea, I bench about 280.... thousand pounds.



Who knows what the future holds.

I believe I have seen your pictures before, love them everytime I see them. I did the same, worked on cars before this job, realized it made me hate working on mine. I then found what I like doing......

I actually work on the electrical in the boat, but not too many pictures of that(as you can imagine)

[ForcedFirebird]

That's awesome. The guy I work with did some time working with Subs. I forget the details but he explained to me how they put them on ground power when in port. Some crazy stuff man! I thought our 480v ground power was alot.


27 here, worked on cars for 10 years and got sick of flat rate.

Now turning wrenches on locomotives and passenger cars (train cars).

Yea, I bench about 280.... thousand pounds.



Who knows what the future holds.

All about it. That's just too cool

[Exodus_2pt0]

Funny how that works out isn't it?

I got to the point where I was paying other people to change my own oil. Sad I know, but I just couldn't bring myself to lift a wrench when I was off the clock.

Now I love diagnosing my own beater DD's again.

[ForcedFirebird]

Diag is the bees knees.

[Exodus_2pt0]

Diag is the bees knees.

Yes sir. Anyone can change a part, but it takes a technician to figure out what needs changed.

[ForcedFirebird]

Yes sir. Anyone can change a part, but it takes a technician to figure out what needs changed.

Word. Yeah a lamost-40-yr-old man said that hehe

[I got it, yes!!]

Yes sir. Anyone can change a part, but it takes a technician to figure out what needs changed.

Thats the best part, troubleshooting!!!