Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "CM Autohaus" channel.

  1. You forgot to mention industry is generally more fun and interesting, and that when you are the only person who can keep their ancient cobbled-together junk they refuse to upgrade it can make you the last guy they lay off. I enjoyed it.
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  2.  @orion7741  WHERE do you work and on what? Wrenching cars in most places is a race to the bottom.
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  3. A rig welder will have that or more in truck and equipment easy, but those guys pull MUCH more than singlehand welders let alone mechanics (and can do all the side work they like when they're off the road, my instructor shortened and lengthened truck frames when at home on his ranch.
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  4. That's almost odd as in my neck of the woods there are plenty of felons who owners have no problem with. It's the rural Southeast though. The gent I worked for on the side had done time too.
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  5.  @zfunk9  Programmers (I'm into computers but don't code) tend to understand logic and logical thinking is delightfully portable!
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  6. Aviation is glorious (retired fighter fixer here). I like most of my bros do all my own work (and took care to live where there are no inspections so I don't lose days every year driving/riding my collection to get smogged).
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  7. Good. Real bikers used to nearly all be wrenches. No one will care for your machine like you will and if it malfunctions on the road you can fix it. I'm the last vintage British mechanic in my area in order to maintain my rides but have zero desire to deal with the public. I also do Harleys but if it's not very recent their dealers won't touch them. There are so few high volume Euro bike shops in the US it just makes sense to wrench your own, and most of the rider community are pretty cool.
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  8. The military crushes the civilian mechanic world not least for the short career to vest retirement.
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  9. I'm sure they'd be delighted especially on the coasts. The Northeast has many very old European communities so social acceptance is not a problem.
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  10. The place to wrench is the Air Force. While many maintainers complain they tend NOT to be those who are real gearheads. You get a vastly better work environment, full medical, housing, DISABILITY PAY if required and a rather nice retirement I'm currently enjoying. I wrenched for fun and profit before during and after my military career but that was mostly for myself to build skills (I collect classic motorbikes and DIY almost everything in my life especially vehicles). I was rightly warned by a very good foreign car mechanic that I'd get bored with cars as a career. I never got bored with aviation until I became a senior supervisor but thanks to early retirement that was not a problem. Government jobs of all kinds are something of a best kept secret but up until the last couple decades it was a community tradition to become a LEO, firefighter, Postal worker or join the armed forces because it's THE reliable way to retire.
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  11. Same here but never got nor wanted a newer truck. I always wanted a serious home shop so I built one including welders, lathe, mill and more to come. If I weren't happily retired I could wrench for pay but I would ONLY work for used car dealers not the public.
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  12. Service writer often pays well.
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  13. If you're any good as a wrench run away from retail auto repairs and into aviation. (Unlike spinning car wrenches the Air Force offers retirement in twenty years and much better working conditions and benefit package.) Wrenching cars and in industry for a few years is why I made sure to avoid the retail automotive world except for toy money now and then when young and bored. I don't care for the retail motorcycle world either which I also worked in....long enough to get good then put that to my private use. Industrial maintenance etc is fun and much less hassle than cars but doesn't have much upward mobility in a world where vesting a retirement is worth killing for.
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