Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "" video.

Buying unwisely puts them in debt. I prefer to own my tools so I can have everything the way I want it, I've wrenched since the 1970s on a wide variety of vehicles and machines. I consider what I spend on tools a bargain and even have a decent home machine shop bought the same way a small business does, a piece at a time.
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That's why I tell everyone I meet who likes wrenching to do it for a hobby (saving many tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime like it has for me) and join the Air Force for a CAREER. Following your passion off a cliff is questionable but once you vest a government retirement you can afford to explore other jobs (and if you played it wisely won't need to). Show me a line mechanic job that lets you retire at 47 (I enlisted late in my twenties) while your peers have to wreck their bodies and deal with horrible retail customers in the auto mechanic world. There are too many people who work cheap and undercut everyone else which has always depressed compensation. I've spun wrenches on industrial machinery, cars, trucks and more but never considered a career outside military aviation. If you work until 65 then you only have a few unhealthy years left before your dirt nap. Choose wisely!
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The solution to that is parts get paid for in advance with labor due on completion. We did that in the motorcycle business for many years. If your customers can't pay you have the wrong customers. Fixing commercial fleets and specialty work is the way to go.
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Flip tip dealer style: I worked for one who never technically "financed" but charged X price then took payments. That completely gets around finanicial regs because you are simply NOT financing (lending money at interest). If you set up a small dealership but with ample storage for auction buys and organ donors that does not come under "salvage" permitting rules because you never sell parts to the public (and I do mean never because Uncle Sugar loves taxes). Then after you've stripped out your donor vehicles and have the usual 100 car minimum you call in a portable crusher to get paid for the scrap at the time of your choosing. Call the cat buyer first because they pay cash off the books and do all the removals. Never store cats where outsiders know their location. The shop did their own repos but they didn't have to do many because the owner told buyers he knew life happens so if they returned a car they could not pay off he wouldn't dun them for the rest of the debt but would sell them another ride when they got on their feet. He had GENERATIONS of customers from the same families.
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It will go faster over time and given the internet to study (but get the service manual anyway, they're a bargain) if you make wrenching your new hobby you can save enough money to buy any tool or piece of equipment you want. Ordinary humans work on every piece of civilization and I guarantee you're sharper than many of them.
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Humans are made for pursuit hunting not heavy lifting. Nearly everyone WILL have a bad back eventually no matter what their job but I make a game of building ways to lift and move basically anything from shipping containers (my home shop incorporates five 40' High Cubes) on down. The smart play is move upward and don't BE a 20-year mechanic. By then you should have moved up and or laterally.
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@outkast40 Electrification means many complex repairs but I wouldn't drop 60K on training for them since that stuff is not difficult to learn.. Electronics and computers filter the ignorant so the techs who do learn them will make bank if they're smart.
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Deletes can get him busted by the EPA and it's happening as other videos demonstrate. Everything that does not affect emissions is safe though.
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@abel4776 Toolboxes are high markup items unlike many tools. Judged by money (the whole point of working!) the best deal is buy cheap new (Harbor Freight have some good boxes) or buy used when the tool truck repos a box Bubba should not have wanted. I've outfitted USAF tool rooms and dealt with every brand on the high end that matters. I even got the Lista and Snap-on reps to cooperated getting laser cut foam for the Listas because grownups like to make salea. My personal boxes are used Lista, Mac and Kennedy (I have small home machine shop) but also select Harbor Freight which work just fine. For an individual mechanic the best place to save money is on the tool box while focusing on key hand tools. I never buy power tools or welders off anyone's truck. That's just silly because they're overpriced in a highly competitive market.
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Community college is awesome. I took welding and machining classes for fun when I retired then volunteered and later worked for the school. The four day week at most is insanely nice so many gearhead retirees do it for toy money and the pleasure of teaching adults who mostly want to be there.
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@vanceforrest4085 If you would own the tools anyway for yourself (DIY over a lifetime buys nice gear as needed so no up front high costs) that part isn't bad at all.
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Working auto mechanics for retail customers always licked pouch because mechanics undercut each other so businesses must too. If you're young and can qualify I suggest joining the Air or Space Force for a lot more fun and a kller benefit package. (Mighty few car wrenches fully retire before age 50 while military can retire after a quick 20 years or hang out a few more for the pay bumps.) Fun fact is jet fighters, bombers and airlifters are usually much nicer to work on than cars but not enough people mention that. Other good gigs for mechanics are industrial maintenance (something new every day and the factory depends on you to keep running) millwright and controls technician. No one should STAY a mechanic. Move up or eject to a better deal. My bros variously run used car lots, a general + race engine machine shop or fix heavy equipment. Trucks will always require technicians even if drivers get somewhat automated out of jobs. Being a mechanic is fun BUT you need to hustle upward not stagnate.
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Construction is much worse on the body. Mechatronics and aviation are the easiest and the higher the technology you work on the more competitors are filtered by it.
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