rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about the five best things about being a
mechanic, and you might have already guess what number one is, you can make a
lot of money if you're a good mechanic, because these modern times
hey, most people don't know how anything works and they certainly aren't able to
fix it, so if you're able to use your hands and your mind and can fix complex
cars, you're gonna have people running to you to fix them, me I've always had a
knack for fixing things, my mother tells me when I was a little kid, I was always
taking things apart, back then I didn't put them back together but now I do both
ends of it, now of course you got to learn how to be
a mechanic and you're gonna be working somewhere but if you're a really good
mechanic, you do like I did, you run your own business and yeah there's
responsibilities but the American dream of running your own business, hey if
you've got what it takes to do that, patience, intelligence, know how to deal
with people, you can make a lot of money being a mechanic, now the next best thing
about being a mechanic is, you have job satisfaction, every day you get one or
two or three or four cars, you got to figure out what's wrong, fix them and
when you're done you see, I fixed something it's completed, unlike
sitting in a cubicle in some office, where you never see that anything is
actually ever completed or finished, you got a job you figured it out, you did it
and then you're satisfied, but of course that's only if you're a good mechanic
I've had customers bring cars to me from other mechanics where they say, hey the
guy had my car for six months and you never fixed the thing, so you do have to be
a good mechanic in order to do it right, now the next thing that's great about
being mechanic is, every day is a challenge, you really never know what's
gonna come into the shop from one day to the next and it tests your brain, it's
kind of like Sherlock Holmes you got to look at all the clues, put them together
then figure out what the root problem is, now I know a lot of guys will say, hey I
like figuring out problems but I don't want to get my hands all dirty, well
modern cars are going more and more towards electronics, so you're actually
using your brain a lot more than you're using your physical body, I'm no Superman
with my scrawny arms but I got a super brain and that's kept me going all these
years fixing cars, so if you're really into electronics, being a mechanic
could be a great job these days, things are only getting more and more
complex, some modern cars have 75 separate microprocessors on one car, now
if you're like me and most American men you love tools, being a mechanic you get
to get all kinds of tools and if you are there don't want to spend the money on a
fancy tool or like using your noggin, you can even invent tools over
the years I've invented many tools to fix things, if I didn't have the right
tool to get in a hole, I get out the tool I get my grinder, then I grind pieces off
until that one fit right, so I could do without having to buy a fancy tool, hey
if crows can make hooks out of pieces of wood to pull things out and eat them,
people can go a lot further than that now the next best thing about being a
mechanic is, guess what you get to work by yourself most of the time, you don't
have to be dealing with other people sure if you're running your own business
you have to deal with customers, but I mean if you work at a dealership and your
mechanic you don't deal with the customers at all, you spend 99% of your
time dealing with the actual machine and guess what, machines don't talk back to
you, they just sit there, when I was a kid hey they say, doesn't work well with
others, well I really don't I like working by myself you know I got my own
mancave garage, people can just leave me alone, I fix their car, they pay me
lots of money, I'm happy and they're happy, and I got good advice about being
a mechanic years ago from my father, he said, you're in a business never talk
politics or religion with your customer and actually that worked out quite well,
because most of that time that talk bores me to death
or it gets me so infuriated if you don't have to think about it at all and you're
working by yourself that's great especially in our modern times, I think
really we need to do more and talk less and when you're working on cars guess
what, you don't talk at all well you might utter some few choice
swear words while you're working but there's no real conversation going on,
and as far as I'm concerned, silence is golden
there's just too much talking these days yep yep yep yep yep yep, it's nice to be
able to sit and concentrate and do something without having all this
extraneous nonsense being poured into your ears, now the last great thing about
being a mechanic is this, you get to fix your own car and you don't get ripped
off on car repairs, that's the main reason I became a mechanic, I don't trust
anybody, and when it comes to fixing things hey people can make up whatever they
want and charge people whatever they want, if you're doing it yourself you
don't have to worry about that, you'll know which cars are the good wants to buy,
which ones are the ones that you stay away from, and you never have to worry
about being stranded anywhere cuz you'll know how to fix your car if it does
break, so now you know the five best things about being a mechanic and hey if
you like things to challenge your noggin and you like working with your hands, you
might think about becoming one yourself because if you're really good at it,
you can run your own business and you don't have to listen to anybody, except
your wife, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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