Automotive tech here, I hate my job so much i don't even have the energy to talk about it.

You gotta be a engineer to be a tech today. Diagnose , repair all systems. Should be paying 40 to 50 per hour like a engineers do

Here in California fast food workers make 20 dollars an hour that’s just about 40k a year. And yet they want auto techs to make that? Not happening. Don’t ever be an auto tech.

I make really good money. I’m near 6 digits a year in Pennsylvania in a small town dealer. I’ve been doing this for 23 years and I’m going on 40 years old. Every night when I go home my hands swell up, I messed up my lower back pretty good that slowed me down plus plenty of other body aches. The industry is changing a lot. Most of us aren’t into electric cars at all so we don’t want to train for them and are planning on leaving when they come out in full force. Let alone all the BS that you deal with in dealerships with writers and customers and god forbid if you have poor management.

I know a Mercedes-Benz flat rate technician at a dealership. He told me the new Mercedes-Benz vehicles they are making are total crap! Cheap parts and poor quality! He is also frustrated with the Warranty pay. Warranty only pays half the time of what a job normally pays. Example, if a job normally pays 9 hours to do Warranty will only pay 4.5 hours. No wonder why technicians are leaving.

No benefit s no flat rate no retirement plans 😅

People have the right to leave a bad job that doesn’t work for them, even if it is making them money. Money ain’t everything and if a bad job becoming a detriment to your health and life, have no shame to close shop and move onto learning new job skills and better jobs.

This man is not lying I had all my diag tools and electrical testers before I got my wrenches 🤣

Easy on the Old timers bro, I’ve been a tech since 86 LOL, what you say is true, but not all of us think like old timers, we keep up with new systems….but true I don’t do engines anymore, let the young bucks do it. When I first started a man told me…take care of your knees and back, so I did…always used a kneel pad when setting the rack and always tried to keep from hurting my back. Right now I can pretty much demand what I want to a point, and the owners know it, I do the job well and they know it. If I or the other good techs leave they are screwed. I would never tell a young man to be a tech today. Dead end job unless you have money to open your own shop.

most car companies make it harder to fix cars

Its not just the pay and the investment required, its that modern vehicles are complete bullshit. They are overcomplicated rube goldberg machines, built with the cheapest components possible. All of this designed by desk jockeys who have no clue how things actually work. They are tedious and boring to work on, as well as frustrating. And when the repairs are done, you as a mechanic/technician know its still junk. And i wont even go into the "warranty pay" vs regular pay, or the nonsense of parts being on intergalactic backorder. Oh and trying to get payed for your diag time.....

1st year I'm looking at 150k+..... after 20 years of service and me being smart over those 20 years, I still want out.

If you work for the city of county. You def got way better benfits. And pay

Great video, just subscribed

Thats not but twenty dollars a hour but labor is 200 dollars a hour that don't sound fair

Any mechanics that take more than an hour to do the rear brakes shouldn't be a mechanic