What are your long-term goals?

Are you planning to move or stay where you are? If memory serves, you live near extended family and the family homestead.

Would you want to open your own shop? This might have greater financial rewards, but it would also mean less wrench work and more wrangling the same knuckleheads you were disparaging.

Do you want to move beyond transmissions to engine work, or remain a specialist? What about heavy industry like mining, or long-haul trucking?

Does this add more confusion, or help focus your thinking?