Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "The Reality of Being a Mechanic in 2025" video.

If you’re going to be a car mechanic or auto tech; work on high end luxury cars that are designed in an over complicated manner. That’s where the money is at with wealthy customers who don’t know anything about their BMW or Mercedes car. As for a machinist, if you specialize in automation and robotics, the pay is good. But if you’re a “traditional machinist” working on average metal items; then the pay isn’t going to be great (unless you’re in the union).
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@mostwantedmotor What you say is very true. A lot of folks will buy or lease a new luxury car every 3 years just to avoid all the hassle with maintenance. But with the right financial conditions (economic downturns), not even wealthy folks will want to buy a new car. It’s way cheaper to repair an older vehicle if interest rates are very high. Ford tried to sell a bunch of luxury pickup trucks for $90k and nobody was interested in forking over that much money for transportation.
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Thank you for sharing your story! It’s the same situation in my field too. I work as a low voltage electrician doing automation, and HVAC controls. HVAC systems used to be done by union pipe fitters (pneumatic technicians) from the plumbing trade back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. By the 80s, we were losing our experience with pneumatic HVAC systems and got electronic techs to do HVAC systems. By the 2010s, most electronic techs retired or died off (like all the pneumatic techs) and now we have computer techs from IT doing HVAC control systems. Nothing wrong with computer techs, but the older pneumatic and electronic techs designed HVAC systems that were far easier to repair than what we’re seeing today.
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