I think the dude that got my oil changed was 100 years old. He could barely hold the funnel on top. He was shaking.
I'm like, dude, every dude in the shop was at least over 60 years old. Yep, that's normal. I'm looking at that, and now that you just said all of this, I'm like, did I just walk into a forgotten corner of Pennsylvania and, like, it was just so bizarre.
But that's the reality. Listen to me, George. When I looked at this field, I was like, okay, I'm young, and I can do whatever I want for a field.
So I chose this field, and I accelerated quickly through it. So I'm already a master tech, and I already deal with stuff. I'm now a lead diagnostic guy.
That's what I do. So people, when they can't figure out what's wrong with their car, they bring their car to me from wherever they couldn't figure it out what was wrong with it before. That's what I do.
So I looked at the field and said, okay, if I stick in this field from the age of 20-something, I will end up, in 10 years, I'll be the highest paid guy in the shop. And that happened rapidly, because all the other guys retired. All the other guys retired, and all the new technology in cars.
Poor guy. And now everybody, everything in cars is now computerized. So, you know, if you know electronics, and you know how to actually do real diagnostics with oscilloscopes and stuff like that, it's not like it was 50 years ago, where to change, you know, to be a mechanic, you just need to be able to take the part off, look at it and go, well, mechanics, you did just simple stuff, like, you know, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, like, something's wrong with your car now. I have to literally spend seven hours with a wiring schematic that looks like something out of a horror film, where it's like an entire whiteboard filled up with stuff while I spend hours trying to figure out which wire is it that's wrong on your communication network. Okay? Like, it's not simple work anymore.
