benderbeerman
@benderbeerman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 hours ago:
Yessir, and i certainly trust TubularTittyFrog (definitely not a troll), who self-admittedly has no experience as a mechanic or in the the mechanical industry and has demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of basic statistical analysis, to be able to interpret and translate those data to me, a simple grease monkey.
Thank you, friend, for sharing your massive endowment of knowledge and experience in all things you have no knowledge or experience in based on your clearly superior powers of… ummm… (checks notes)… reading words and numbers on Google?
It was so generous of you to spare so much time with your thoughtful and heartfelt responses, all to show me the light and the way in this matter of utmost urgency and concern!
🤣🤣🤣 you fucken jabroni 🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Anon is 23 19 hours ago:
Ok, well I’m glad you googled your facts. The internet is never wrong or misleading. You would definitely know all about that, being a very successful IT person…
- Comment on Anon is 23 19 hours ago:
I don’t think i said any of that. I think you’re just more upset than you need to be. You are angry typing and making all kinds of mistakes.
I never said college was dumb, I said you don’t need it for my job. I graduated college with under $5k debt. You said college for 10 years, and that would put you at well over an undergrad degree, unless you were taking like 4 credits a term. A masters degree will cost you around $150k and 10 years.
I never said everyone should be a mechanic, but there is nothing wrong with it. It’s not hard to make money unless you stay in a dead end position. That’s the same for almost any career tho.
I also never said you were either rich or poor. I don’t know or care about your financial positions in life. Much like your genitals: unless they’re being used on me, it’s none of my fucken business what you got.
I did make poor choices when I was young, but I am now older and have made much better decisions as I grew, coincidentally enough starting with a bicycle mechanic job. It was super cool and I learned a lot. But you are right, it didn’t pay the bills.
So I found a different mechanic job, one that paid around triple the bike mechanic job. It was somewhere I’d seen advertised for some time, so i checked it out and it made sense. I drove all over my state doing field service work. It was a good job, but i was at the “national average” pay for mechanics at that time. So I found another job, it paid around 50% more and had much better benefits and all the overtime i wanted (it wasn’t mandatory). I worked there a couple years and found another job that paid 25% more, and for the first time in my life, I was earning over $100k, and no overtime necessary.
The thing is, these last several jobs have been constantly hiring entry level mechanics at “national average” or higher since long before i started.
You seem to have a lack of understanding about being a mechanic. I can guarantee you that, as a mechanic. Unless you don’t want to try, the chances of you being stuck in a bike shop at $20/hr for the rest of your life is much lower than “99999/10000” (999.99%🤣) in fact, it doesn’t even approach 100/10000 (you know, 1%).
Anyway, don’t be so mad, and don’t take everything so personal. I’m not trying to make fun of you or hurt your feelings.
- Comment on Anon is 23 23 hours ago:
Wow, for someone so educated, you sure make a lot of odd assumptions.
Perhaps I am more educated than you assume, even if a formal education is not required for my job.
Also, I’m gonna make an assumption now about your education, based on things you’ve said here… someone as condescendingly smart as yourself and using averages to discuss things like this has certainly taken at least some statistics classes and understands what a “standard deviation” is… and how that might be affected by extremely low paying jobs in one sector, even if those are not the most prominent paying jobs or abundant positions in that sector.
I think the standard deviation of pay for mechanics is much wider than you think, and possibly skewed by other factors than just simple geography.
I’m not saying that all mechanics make IT wages, but i am saying that I didn’t have to spend 10 years in school and $150k in debt to compete for a position that I earn 6 figures in. My job is not competitive for positions, they’re pretty abundant. Base pay for this position in my area (not a big city) is substantially higher than the national “average.” No formal education required.
But I must ask, why u so mad bro? Sounds like you’re living the dream life, no need to have an aneurism about other people’s money
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day 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.”
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day 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.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
How much do you think mechanics get paid today?
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
I worked 3300 hours a few years back. I was not prepared for what the overtime would do to my taxes. Still brought home more than I ever had before (or since). Also was not prepared what the overtime would do to my personal life or my mind.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
Why are people talking like being a mechanic is bum work, or like there’s a huge overhead cost in being a mechanic, or that you have to go to trade school to be a mechanic, or like mechanic work is going away?
None of these is true.
Mechanics will always have work, usually with overtime, and usually pay is very decent.
No degree required. Certs optional.
Tools are very affordable when you’re not buying them all at once.
Lots of room to change specializations.
ICE mechanics are still going to be hugely in demand because the Internal Combustion Engine isn’t going anywhere, even if they stop putting them in some/ most automobiles. But there are dozens of other mechanical disciplines, and as long as you know how to (when to) then a wrench, you can always get a job.
A bearing is a bearing, whether it’s on a crank shaft, an electric motor, a tail pulley, or a garage door.
- Comment on get a job you loser 1 week ago:
Hmm… I would prob work for Doofenshmirtz too tho
- Comment on Bargain 1 week ago:
So much purple, I didn’t realize he was Rajneesh?
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I suppose he could have just taken some ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine about it. Maybe he should have listened to rfk. Or maybe he did. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on We've all been there 5 weeks ago:
Fool me once, shame on you… fool me twice, shame on glue.
- Comment on Flock of scissors 5 weeks ago:
It’s 2 per, as in:
I need two per So give me two per
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1 girl, 1 (world) cup?
- Comment on So unfair 1 month ago:
Gen-x millennial here… (born in the late 70’s but still know how to build and use computers)
I used to smoke weed thru a “pinch-hitter” while waking thru supermarkets or riding the bus. It was a little ceramic or steel cigarette shaped and colored pipe that you could stuff just enough for a toke or two into. Very discrete.
I’d save the pop cans and apples for after school or when I forgot my chambered metal pipe.
We still did the same shit, it just didn’t taste as good
- Comment on Ol Nancys lil poodle 2 months ago:
Who is this Biden guy? We can’t let people get away with doing this kinda shit! Is he the one trump hired to arrest and lock up all them US citizens?
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 3 months ago:
^as said by somebody who never had to replace the motor on their washer, or the burned on their range, or the belt on their dryer, or the elements in the water heater…
The reason they always worked forever was because your dad bought replacement parts from the appliance repair store and didn’t complain to you about it.
This is literally one of the top 3 good things about YouTube
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 4 months ago:
Man, that would be the bloodiest battle the world ever seen
- Comment on Checkers, not chess. 4 months ago:
“Djy-nah!”
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Must have been majestic
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The first option is actually a denim pencil skirt. The second option is the only option
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 8 months ago:
Air-dicking is a hard practice to break free from, ig… easier to retrain into air-fishing
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 9 months ago:
Sergeant Slaughter twin clones?
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If we could simply choose when we got erections, high school would have been much less awkward
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- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 10 months ago:
You step back real far and lean forward, stabilize with your hand on the tank. It might take a lil practice but it’s light years better than trying to bend it down
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Sounds like they take their distances pretty seriously over there in the mile-high city
- Comment on What does this mean? 11 months ago:
Means you’re no longer pengrant
