Not sure how I ran into your channel, but you're awesome (subbed)! I can relate to your story of taking the canonical path with college (for chemistry, then secondary education), and now finding myself with a strong interest in cars. Newly purchased $5K used car broke down on the side of the road 9 months ago. Was stuck with it and short on funds -- I opened the hood and never looked back. 9 months later I'm diagnosing for others, doing brake jobs, tune ups, changing cv axles, inner/outer tie rods, water pumps, etc even changed a steering rack. Learned all through RUclips, including the engineering/theory behind a lot of car components. At a crossroads now because I don't know how to go about getting into the industry, but this has inspired me. Thank you!
Thanks for all of your guys' contributions - bottom line, it is what you make it. Are you gonna sit back and wait 10 yrs to be promoted, or are you gonna hustle your ass every day at the shop and learn everything you can? In order to be successful the quickest in any sort of career, you must become totally obsessed with your field. Me? Because I work in a hella positive environment with wonderdul guys, I get to ask questions and let them show me a few tips and tricks. For example, our new service mgr pulled a car into my bay with a fuel and air induction service that I've never done before. Instead of passing it off to someone else saying, "hey you want this job, I don't know how to do it?" I asked the master tech if he had a few minutes to spare to show me, and now, today I got to learn something totally new that most GSTs don't get to do. How much of your spare time are you gonna use to learn about your work? How many You Tube videos are you gonna watch? How many books you gonna read? How much work are you gonna out into your project car? How observant are you gonna be in the shop? All of this ads up....and anyways....keep on moving foward folks. It is what you make it. 👍🙌
Great conversation Bogi! Excellent for our young people today. When I was 15, I was having a tough time deciding on a career path. My dad was a Master electrician and an hvac tech. I had worked with him for years growing up. I was torn between taking auto body in high school or electrical. I ended up going into what I had known for years and I have had a successful career in the communications field. My family was not "car people", lol. I enjoy restoring car parts and working on 2nd gen Camaros as a hobby today. Like you guys said, it has taking me a long time to learn what I know and I'm still learning. Thank goodness for the internet and RUclips. I just wish I had it in the 80's. lol. Thanks for the vid!
i'm a car enthusiast, but i work into cleaning to pay the bills and save up to work on my car in my free time. I don't plan to work in the car industry, but i'd like to learn the job of a mechanic, to actually have the right knowledge to fix, build and enhance my car(s). The way I think of it is I'm fit to work as a cleaning crew because i'm meticulous, but i really enjoy myself when tuning my car. From young, i had no real attract to car industry, even though my dad is a awesome bike mechanic (built several bikes from scratch with loads of custom or tuned parts), so i never though that someday i'd be into cars, but now i am, and the best times i have is walking into a scrapyard and (un)screwing bolts and nuts just to spend time. I plan on keeping my actual job as a cleaning crew, because i happen to not dislike it, and it suits me well, but i'll also get some kind of education in cars fixing, so i can enjoy my time working on cars. Also, i find it awesome that you stuck up to what you wanted despite a lot of people telling you that "you're not fit for it", people like you makes the world better (think, would we have formula 1 or nascar if people just stayed where society wants them ?) sorry for the long post, i just write as i think, so it's long and messy
Alice! Your Future in Your hands. Try to get to school for Associate in IT field, for beginning. Next decade all cars will became ALL Electric and literally aka computers on the roads. My 26 years baby girl works as IT specialist/programmer (she ern Phd last summer) for one of the lead carmaker and has 6 figure compensation. Don`t give up! You can do it.
Me personally. Taught the basics by my mom, battery brakes tune up, friends dad taught me more, went to school, started at a shop as literally sweeping the floor and now I am the master tech, lead tech, diagnostics tech. Now I'm slowly trying to go further and go mobile. I want to be more. And it's kind of an insult when I see ppl start out thinking they can just do what we do without even comprehending the skill set required
pinpoint auto congrats on all your successes! And I think it’s extra awesome you were taught the basics by your mom! I hear what you’re saying about folks not fully understanding the skill set required. However, that could probably be said of most industries, you don’t really know till you’re in it, and those that are good at it make it look easy! I’m sure doctors get uber frustrated with patients who have “self diagnosed” off the internet, or young med school grads who think they know everything because they just graduated top of their class. I think it’s our job to help the public understand how complicated today’s cars are and how much skill and knowledge it takes to fix them properly. Keep up the great work, and good luck with your mobile business!!
I love that you mentioned the various facets of this industry. When will the automotive schools see things the same? Let's have service advisor classes in the schools . Parts management etc. I firmly believe that would also help to bring more women into industry as well , don't you?
then we'd need learning about a lot's of other things, as cooking to get more men into it, etc. but the idea is not to be thrown in the bin, it has to be thought of as part of a complete redesign of education
@@NewLevelAuto well, if we have service advisor classes in the schools to help to bring more women into industry as well, then we'd have to think about all the other areas, as cooking etc
@newlevelauto - I think what @ellena29460 is referring to is high school classes, not so much trade schools as you were talking about. I believe she is saying that we need shop and home ec classes back in high schools, but just not gender defined as they were back in the day.
We want to use this video for a college course in Diesel Tech at Santa Rosa Junior College. Would you please grant us permission to caption the video so it has punctuation and clear sentences? If you turn on Community Contributions in RUclips, we could add the better captions to these videos. Alternatively, we can send you a corrected caption file that you can upload in RUclips. One more option is to use a site such as Amara.org that will embed the video and give us an interface to overlay the video with the better caption file. All of these options leave the control in your hands. If you take down the video, it will no longer appear in the course, we will just be embedding from RUclips, not downloading the video.
Thank you for the video. Very good. I know of hundreds of automotive and diesel tech's who left the automotive industry and went to work in the oil and gas industry. Making an average of 80k+, depending on overtime. The average tech in an average shop will average between 40k to 60k. Unless your superman like Keith DeFazio, then you will make a couple billion a year.
Billy Yoder I think it’s so sad that so many have left the industry. I made good money as a tech (and I’m no Keith!). It really depends on where you work and your drive. When I was at the dealership I was making 70k+ and so were most of my colleagues (or more), and I was only 27 at the time. There is good money to be made in the industry.
Not sure how I ran into your channel, but you're awesome (subbed)! I can relate to your story of taking the canonical path with college (for chemistry, then secondary education), and now finding myself with a strong interest in cars. Newly purchased $5K used car broke down on the side of the road 9 months ago. Was stuck with it and short on funds -- I opened the hood and never looked back. 9 months later I'm diagnosing for others, doing brake jobs, tune ups, changing cv axles, inner/outer tie rods, water pumps, etc even changed a steering rack. Learned all through RUclips, including the engineering/theory behind a lot of car components. At a crossroads now because I don't know how to go about getting into the industry, but this has inspired me. Thank you!
Thanks for all of your guys' contributions - bottom line, it is what you make it. Are you gonna sit back and wait 10 yrs to be promoted, or are you gonna hustle your ass every day at the shop and learn everything you can? In order to be successful the quickest in any sort of career, you must become totally obsessed with your field. Me? Because I work in a hella positive environment with wonderdul guys, I get to ask questions and let them show me a few tips and tricks. For example, our new service mgr pulled a car into my bay with a fuel and air induction service that I've never done before. Instead of passing it off to someone else saying, "hey you want this job, I don't know how to do it?" I asked the master tech if he had a few minutes to spare to show me, and now, today I got to learn something totally new that most GSTs don't get to do. How much of your spare time are you gonna use to learn about your work? How many You Tube videos are you gonna watch? How many books you gonna read? How much work are you gonna out into your project car? How observant are you gonna be in the shop? All of this ads up....and anyways....keep on moving foward folks. It is what you make it. 👍🙌
I've been enjoying these conversations. Thanks.
You are very welcome! We really enjoyed doing these videos as well. So much to talk about!
Great conversation Bogi! Excellent for our young people today. When I was 15, I was having a tough time deciding on a career path. My dad was a Master electrician and an hvac tech. I had worked with him for years growing up. I was torn between taking auto body in high school or electrical. I ended up going into what I had known for years and I have had a successful career in the communications field. My family was not "car people", lol. I enjoy restoring car parts and working on 2nd gen Camaros as a hobby today. Like you guys said, it has taking me a long time to learn what I know and I'm still learning. Thank goodness for the internet and RUclips. I just wish I had it in the 80's. lol. Thanks for the vid!
i'm a car enthusiast, but i work into cleaning to pay the bills and save up to work on my car in my free time. I don't plan to work in the car industry, but i'd like to learn the job of a mechanic, to actually have the right knowledge to fix, build and enhance my car(s).
The way I think of it is I'm fit to work as a cleaning crew because i'm meticulous, but i really enjoy myself when tuning my car.
From young, i had no real attract to car industry, even though my dad is a awesome bike mechanic (built several bikes from scratch with loads of custom or tuned parts), so i never though that someday i'd be into cars, but now i am, and the best times i have is walking into a scrapyard and (un)screwing bolts and nuts just to spend time.
I plan on keeping my actual job as a cleaning crew, because i happen to not dislike it, and it suits me well, but i'll also get some kind of education in cars fixing, so i can enjoy my time working on cars.
Also, i find it awesome that you stuck up to what you wanted despite a lot of people telling you that "you're not fit for it", people like you makes the world better (think, would we have formula 1 or nascar if people just stayed where society wants them ?)
sorry for the long post, i just write as i think, so it's long and messy
Alice! Your Future in Your hands. Try to get to school for Associate in IT field, for beginning. Next decade all cars will became ALL Electric and literally aka computers on the roads. My 26 years baby girl works as IT specialist/programmer (she ern Phd last summer) for one of the lead carmaker and has 6 figure compensation. Don`t give up! You can do it.
The Army was my tech school also learned management skills with anything it's how you apply yourself
Me personally. Taught the basics by my mom, battery brakes tune up, friends dad taught me more, went to school, started at a shop as literally sweeping the floor and now I am the master tech, lead tech, diagnostics tech. Now I'm slowly trying to go further and go mobile. I want to be more. And it's kind of an insult when I see ppl start out thinking they can just do what we do without even comprehending the skill set required
pinpoint auto congrats on all your successes! And I think it’s extra awesome you were taught the basics by your mom! I hear what you’re saying about folks not fully understanding the skill set required. However, that could probably be said of most industries, you don’t really know till you’re in it, and those that are good at it make it look easy! I’m sure doctors get uber frustrated with patients who have “self diagnosed” off the internet, or young med school grads who think they know everything because they just graduated top of their class. I think it’s our job to help the public understand how complicated today’s cars are and how much skill and knowledge it takes to fix them properly. Keep up the great work, and good luck with your mobile business!!
I love that you mentioned the various facets of this industry. When will the automotive schools see things the same? Let's have service advisor classes in the schools . Parts management etc. I firmly believe that would also help to bring more women into industry as well , don't you?
then we'd need learning about a lot's of other things, as cooking to get more men into it, etc.
but the idea is not to be thrown in the bin, it has to be thought of as part of a complete redesign of education
@@turbo_alice sorry I don't understand the cooking part?
@@NewLevelAuto well, if we have service advisor classes in the schools to help to bring more women into industry as well, then we'd have to think about all the other areas, as cooking etc
@newlevelauto - I think what @ellena29460 is referring to is high school classes, not so much trade schools as you were talking about. I believe she is saying that we need shop and home ec classes back in high schools, but just not gender defined as they were back in the day.
@@BogisGarage that's it. i was talking about high school (or even middle school, why not)
We want to use this video for a college course in Diesel Tech at Santa Rosa Junior College. Would you please grant us permission to caption the video so it has punctuation and clear sentences? If you turn on Community Contributions in RUclips, we could add the better captions to these videos. Alternatively, we can send you a corrected caption file that you can upload in RUclips. One more option is to use a site such as Amara.org that will embed the video and give us an interface to overlay the video with the better caption file.
All of these options leave the control in your hands. If you take down the video, it will no longer appear in the course, we will just be embedding from RUclips, not downloading the video.
Thank you for the video. Very good. I know of hundreds of automotive and diesel tech's who left the automotive industry and went to work in the oil and gas industry. Making an average of 80k+, depending on overtime. The average tech in an average shop will average between 40k to 60k. Unless your superman like Keith DeFazio, then you will make a couple billion a year.
Billy Yoder I think it’s so sad that so many have left the industry. I made good money as a tech (and I’m no Keith!). It really depends on where you work and your drive. When I was at the dealership I was making 70k+ and so were most of my colleagues (or more), and I was only 27 at the time. There is good money to be made in the industry.
@@BogisGarage heck , I must not be Keith either! I don't make anything close to that 😂😭
@@NewLevelAuto you deserve a multitude of blessings for all you do for others. Thank you Keith.
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