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• benderbeerman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I… uh… i am a mechanic. I just don’t work in a car shop that pays only billable hours. Why would you do that to yourself?

  That would be like getting a minimum wage serving job and hoping the tips will be reliable.  ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  I never struggle for hours, I have great benefits, non- union, no certs, degrees, or specialization required. I make enough to pay all my bills, invest in retirement, and still have money left over for life afterward. I work with a gang of guys all doing the same. We work in a field where we can go pretty much anywhere and get another job paying about the same.

  I’m not sure why the mechanics you have met can’t find these jobs, but they have all misinformed you.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i work in IT. it’s so easy, just get a six figure job like me.

    it’s not that the vast majority of positions in the field… are part time contract work that pay shit…

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    • benderbeerman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow, you have it hard in IT i guess. Maybe you should have looked into being a mechanic.

      You don’t need a degree to get jobs as a mechanic, so no formal education necessary. You don’t have to worry about jobs being hard to find because basically everything that moves has bearings that need to be changed. You don’t need to worry about contract work because there are substantial amounts of mechanic jobs that pay hourly and offer tons of overtime.

      I’m not sure why it’s so offensive to you that plenty of people don’t have the experience you heard about from “every mechanic you met.”

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the average mechanic wage is 50K a year.

        that’s not a livable wage unless you live in bumfucksville parts of the USA.

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