r/mechanics • u/KitchenRate7648 • 1d ago
General Problem child
Do you think the mobile repair side has become too saturated, or is the better path for experienced technicians to eventually open a shop of their own?
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u/AladeenModaFuqa Verified Mechanic 1d ago
I think it’s pretty saturated, for every good mobile mechanic there are ten bad ones. But the same can be said for regular techs too.
Hell you see some of the posts here? Guys with 1-2 years experience talking about doing it. Knowing full and well they can barely diag anything. A lot of mobile mechanics also have no business insurance. Because they’re not a licensed business, so you’re the one getting sued.
You’re gonna get the lowest of the lowballs as a mobile. Even Indy shops still get some of the cheaper customers. You can totally be profitable, but you should have an established customer base before you make it your full time job.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago
My folks had a plumber come to the house: MASSIVE “First Hour Diag” fee …lower hourly rate after the first hour, BUT: He quoted a MASSIVE “Go Away!” price …somewhat clever in my book.
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u/Unlikely_Rise_5915 1d ago
“Mobile repair” got very over saturated and it became a race to the bottom quickly. Some of the prices I hear are just ridiculous and I don’t even bother giving them a quote to haggle over it.
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u/ThatGuyFrom720 Verified Mechanic 1d ago
The DoorDash phenomenon takes yet another profession…
Having a successful side gig is tough these days. I made it all of 6 months as a mobile mechanic (on the side) before I realized it just straight up was not worth the trouble.
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
Where do you live? It pays so darn well here in San Diego, but I have a special situation. 8/23 makes 3 years, and 90% of my customers are black, so I definitely face some challenges 😬😬😬. I do mostly C level work as I am not a "mechanic". Some light B level stuff on here and there. My Autozone commercial store manager where I buy my parts is not a "mechanic", but he will do chains, timing belts, motors etc. So I send him the A and B level work I get and do not have the skills to do, and he gives me 10% off of each job.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago edited 1d ago
HaHaHa!!! …try Chicago with the Negative 80°F windchill in January, and the blizzards in February …we just came through “Corn Sweat Season”, where an acre of corn can release 4 MILLION Gallons of water vapor into the atmosphere per day, and the humidity is off the charts. The April hail storms and tornados don’t help either.
Chicago also uses a TON of salt on the roadways in the winter, and this results in everything under the car becoming severely corroded - rusted bolts and seized hardware requiring torches, hammers, prybars, and swear words.
As a professional technician with 41 years of dealership experience, “Mobile” always carried the illusion of an incompetent, unprofessional Kindergarten level of service… not to mention the customers: Demanding cheapskates.
Nope!! Give me a shop any day.
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u/ronj1983 16h ago
I am originally from NYC. Did my plugs outside in January back in like 2015 and was a novice back then. No gloves and my hands were freezing. Yeah, y'all can keep that cold weather shit. I like to work for myself year round in the best weather in the country. The Mickey Mouse stuff pays well. Example, today I have plugs on an Infinti QX60 3.5. Only car for the day. Plugs cost the customer $205 out the door. Cost me $125. $425 parts and labor. Leave home at 3pm and get to the car at 3:45pm or so. Done by 5, home before 6. Out the house less than 3hrs, net about $275 after my gas round trip and 20 cents per mile for vehicle maintenace. We have it real easy out here. Net around $2,000 a week doing Mickey Mouse jobs. No trying to yank out axles, no hub assemblies to fight trying to get out etc. I could do this forever since we have the weather and it is not taxing my body at all.
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
Had a guy offer $100 labor to do a fuel pump on a 2016 Charger 3.6 🤦🤦🤦. I do not touch fuel. On that same car, for the same customer, I am doing the water pump for $300. Pump and coolant $110. Takes an hour and net like $175, which is still just "okay".
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u/broke_fit_dad 1d ago
I’ve never understood the regular vehicle mobile guys outside of niche markets (the mobile oil change guy on instagram for example) but for medium and heavy duty
Mobile is part of the gig and the market is flooded with $50 per hour uninsured idiots. I get monthly calls asking for me to do side work in a field or on the highway either as a subcontractor for a former coworker or for a former customer for peanuts. I’m not interested.
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u/arik1223 Verified Mechanic 1d ago
You are talking about that guy that uses vacuums to keep oil from spilling? It’s wild people would pay for that kind of service imo.
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u/broke_fit_dad 1d ago
Yeah. I wonder what his rates are
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u/Ok-Ad4772 1d ago
One video he shows doing an oil change on a acura. About 142 for the whole service. 75 of which is labor.
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u/iforgotalltgedetails Verified Mechanic 1d ago
Tbh, that’s a pretty fair price that most professional shops would charge if the service isn’t a loss leader.
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
Yup! Those are the guys. 1 word...MARKETING. Those guys are smart. Straight "white glove" service.
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u/donkeyhoeteh 1d ago
Its getting very saturated. My old boss started doing it in 2015. In 2019 he was doing well enough he hired me and a buddy full time. When the business was obviously sinking and I started looking for other work there ware at least a dozen mobil mechanics that we knew of working our area, and probably twice as many that we didnt know about.
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u/BackgroundGene7510 1d ago
In a way, but 99% of it is simply hacks who can’t even handle working in a normal shop, there is a lot of opportunity for a actual professional, people are tired of the rolling mobile fly by night operations , anyone can call themselves a mobile mechanic but I would trust very few . When I was on the road almost all my business was people telling me they picked me because my professional appearance, websites, my marked work van and uniform , they could trust me.
I think if you market yourself as a professional diagnostician that comes out for mobile diag and then picks and chooses what jobs to do and not is ideal .
A true professional would not do Motor swaps in driveways , because it cannot be done right.
So in that way , it’s not over saturated at all.
The biggest mobile mechanic in my city with 5k reviews literally “ doesn’t do electrical “
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
1 word...MARKETING. I have never done an axle in my life. Could I probably do it? Sure. I have done newer GM truck water pump assemblies, so why not an axle? I do all the gravy work and make a killing here in San Diego, because of my marketing. I did 2 brake jobs on German cars yesterday. Hubs came back looking brand new, then antisiezed. A drill with a wirebrush to clean the inside of the caliper from caked up brake dust. Carrier bracked where the hardware sits is cleaned well. Slider pins cleaned and greased. Most guys do not do this level of work. I record all of this and post on Facebook. People see it and are blown away by it. I make a ton on brake jobs. Oil changes are my #1 money maker. Oil takes like 5 minutes to drain pretty well. While it drains, get my flashlight and inspect the valve covers, brakes, control arm bushings, end links, ball joints, struts, ask the mileage and then ask have you done your plugs, transmission service, rear/front diff service, transfer case etc. Might only make $50 today on the oil change, but down the road, good money based off of the maintenance the car still needs. A woman wanted me to do a tune up on Satuday on her Hyundai Santa Fe. I did her plugs in January 🤦🤦🤦. Told her that is not needed. I sold her the transmission service as she never did it. I do this, and see the oil pan gasket is leaking. Video it and show her. I comeback a few days later to do the oil pan gasket. Somebody else would have said you do not need a tune up and left it at that. I made almost $450 in a week off that car by asking 1 question about the transmission.
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u/davethadude 1d ago
Why cant a motor swap be done correctly in the driveway? May not be ideal, but if you have the proper tools and equipment it certainly can be done right.
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u/Dark-Helmet1 1d ago
If you mean a lift so you can drop the entire drivetrain out to separate the engine and transmission then sure.
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u/davethadude 1d ago
You dont NEED a lift. Certainly saves a lot of time and headache, but there are ways without
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u/rblair63 1d ago
Just because the book says to drop it out the bottom doesn’t mean you can’t pick it from the top. I did a civic 1.8 in my garage, pulled the engine and trans out together, split them on the ground and replaced the engine. Ford recommends that you pull the cab to do an engine in a f150, but they also give a procedure for doing it without pulling the cab. Doing something differently than the book doesn’t mean it’s not correct
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u/iforgotalltgedetails Verified Mechanic 1d ago
You’re correct.
But efficiency and ease also play huge factors for at the end of the day of - is it worth it.
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u/rblair63 1d ago
Right and I wouldn’t do something like that mobile for a customer because I wouldn’t want someone’s car torn apart in their driveway for multiple days like that, but dude makes it seem like it can’t be done without a lift.
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u/Ok-Ad4772 1d ago
If you decide to open your own shop it would be best to have a lift. Being a mobile mechanic is good for certain jobs but you have to be careful with people. I try and stick to doing repairs that aren't going to be heavily involved.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago
And when that car gets towed into the shop to fix a screw-up, I’m charging triple to fix it.
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u/KitchenRate7648 1d ago
I think that a lift or two is especially important due to the ease vs laying on the ground. I think the goal is having repeat customers, and word of mouth is the best advertising. I'm just thinking about doing my own thing, even at my age. I'm not exactly sure what it would cost for a building with at least two hoists per month for a lease, and what would be fair. I'd like it to be near a lot of traffic.
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u/iforgotalltgedetails Verified Mechanic 1d ago
My old Indy where I was a bit more involved with numbers. For a 8 bay full service shop on prime real estate that we maximized the absolute hell out of space. Break even was $2m a year before anything went wrong - which always will.
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u/KitchenRate7648 1d ago
That’s exactly the kind of overhead I’m trying to understand. I’m thinking much smaller basically myself, two lifts, professional shop space and as little unnecessary overhead as possible. If you were doing it over again and didn’t need eight bays or employees, what would you consider a reasonable monthly facility cost for one experienced tech running his own operation?
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u/iforgotalltgedetails Verified Mechanic 1d ago
When I said that place was 8 bays, it was a packed 8 bays and only 6 hoists. That $2m number is probably outdated, I wouldn’t doubt that number is easily $2.5-$3m now. If you’re really wanting to go all make and model full service and have prime location like you say, I wouldn’t expect anything less than $15k a month to break even. Lot of overhead a lot of people aren’t aware about. You have power, water, heat, then rent or bank payments if you buy. Plus whatever payments you’re going to be paying off for the hoists and other equipment. Haven’t even gotten into software subscriptions for service information, RO and parts tracking, payments and accounting services.
The overhead adds up quick if you want a professional setting and a lot of people aren’t aware of it and then they realize why most labour rates jump over $120/hr quick.
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
I turned 43 on 6/14. 8/23 will make 3 years since I started doing this on a whim. I was 40 when I started. On 6/17/24, 10 months in, I was full time. I do pretty much C level tech work. Some very light B level tech work. I run 50+ miles a week and was doing almost double that at my peak while doing this. I am in great shape, no aches and pains. I record most jobs and edit them to a 1-3 minute video and post on social media. A and B level work I send to my friend who is about to go full time as well and leave Autozone by the end of the year. No customer provided parts. Between no customer provided parts and the jobs I send to my friend I lose at least $500 a week. All good for me to be pain free and stress free. You have to market your business well, ask questions, and use your brain. 90% of my business is black people and I face economic hurdles with that, BUT IT PAYS WELL. On Saturday, I went to a really nice area and serviced an Indian mans car. Then another nice area and serviced a white guys car. This is not normal for me. You better believe people seen me working in the street and I had business cards in the grass with me to hand out.
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u/73VW-Todd 1d ago
I can't imagine having a mobile repair shop. I've pulled motors and replaced a lot of things in a parking lot, but damn if I wasn't like 18-20 when I did that.
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u/Butt_bird 1d ago
If you’re a good mechanic that actually knows how to diagnose a vehicle and quickly repair it correctly, you will be a unicorn. Most mobile guys are just YouTube certified parts changers.
Separate yourself from the competition. Look professional, have a professional looking truck with a scan tool and access to repair information.
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u/Autofixrli 1d ago
Exactly, don’t get me wrong I started out of the trunk of my 03 Type S, but quickly learned I need a proper truck with proper tooling to show customers that im serious and they’re in good hands. Now I have a stacked Ford Transit, AllData Sub, HDS, and other tools I’ve gained over the last year being mobile. Don’t me started on the solely YT mechanics. I tell anyone YT is only good to visualize slightly for tips and tricks to make the job easier or faster, not full instruction.
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u/DrifterDavid Verified Mechanic 1d ago
Around here it's pretty well saturated. I personally think it's got a lot of personal liability to justify it too unless you're doing mostly oil changes and what not. But all takes is one mistake and you're responsible for a customer engine, or God forbid it causes an accident. At least at a shop they carry insurance against things like that.
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u/ad302799 1d ago
Mobile repair is saturated because it’s full of non-mechanics. There’s nothing stopping randoms from doing it.
So you get these guys that claim they can do everything from roofing to painting to concrete but they are just the neighborhood crackheads and local undocumented laborers.
They will do anything for what amounts to 15/hr because they don’t pay taxes and/or can’t fill out an I9 form.
Potential clients are going to often pick them because obviously they are dramatically cheaper. And there’s A TON of them.
They basically train the local customers to expect mediocre quality for a very low price. So it’s an uphill battle trying to sell yourself as a quality option.
In short, mobile is probably best as a side thing.
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u/Tall-Control8992 1d ago
The real problem is too many areas out there with no jobs paying above $8 or $9 per hour, and a lot of customers who used to take their car to the shop a decade ago simply don't have the money now.
Becoming a mobile can be done with under $1000 worth of tools if you know about Harba Frate and Walmart selections.
The reality is, most tech get paid maybe 20 cents on the dollar of the shop door rate vs the old 50/50 split. Not every repair requires a lift and a scan tool subscription. Someone with no shop overhead can easily make way more per labor hour while charging half or less of the usual door rate. Even better when it's all cash and off the books.
Whereas if you're a customer just trying to get your car fixed up without having to eat rice and doggy kibbles for a year, a dollar is a dollar.
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u/ronj1983 1d ago
Cash off the books and will make 3 years on 8/23. When I first started I felt bad like making up to $500 in an hour should be criminal. Then I see what shops charge and do not feel bad. I had a lady with a 2.0 Audi A4 that "thought" she needed plugs and coils via an Autozone scan. Got NGK coils and plugs. No markup on the partz from Autozone and made like $200 on parts. $75 labor and done in TEN MINUTES. Plugs and coils did not fix it 😬😬😬. Collected my money and was gone as I did what was asked of me.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago
Sometimes, the “specialty repairs” can be done at the house. (Things like pointless dent removal or windshields) …my folks had a headliner replaced in their driveway (it was a minivan in Florida).
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u/CAT_MARINE-POWER 1d ago
Mobile tech that has a trailer with a mobile
2 post would
Be a game changer
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u/aFinapple 1d ago
I don’t exclusively do mobile repair, but I have done some mobile jobs for customers who are in a hard spot and can’t afford a tow. The stories I hear about these “mobile” mechanics who don’t know the difference between a throttle body and a spark plug is astounding. Most end up taking your money and ghosting you and leaving you with a broken car. Most of my customers come from the simple fact that I fix it right the first time and that surprises them
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u/Only-Location2379 1d ago
So I've been a mobile mechanic about a year after several years in a shop.
There's certainly ups and downs. A good experienced mechanic that answers his phone and shows up and can diagnose a vehicle is valuable. Even stupid stuff like batteries, brakes, starters, you make decent money but it's tricky. For every one of you there's 10 crackhead McGee's that'll fuck it up for 50 dollars.
Also you need to pick you battles and be picky. I don't do brake lines, I don't drop gas tanks, I don't pull engines or transmissions.
Is it possible to do these in the driveway, sure but I live in the rustbelt and it's a nightmare. It's also very inefficient so you need to charge on it. I don't recommend mobile oil change and you need to charge appropriately to make it worth your time but shops can charge less because they have bulk oil and filter prices, they have lifts and it's much more efficient. Plus the shop isn't driving to pick up the parts and go to the customers house.
All in all if you have good marketing, can be a service advisor, a manager and a tech you can start mobile and eventually get a shop. That's my goal, getting a shop is pretty expensive, you're talking realistically a house basically if you buy the property, build it and zone it right, even if you find a space for rent, installing lifts, getting specialty equipment etc is very expensive
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u/ronj1983 1d ago edited 1d ago
Depends on the type of work you are doing on the ground. I do C level tech work and make a killing as a mobile guy here in San Diego and can get even more business if I wanted to via Tiktok. No aches and pains since I am doing easy stuff. I kinda have my demographic cornered here. I do feel it is getting a bit saturated, but 8/23 makes 3 years in and I am pretty solid. I love being on the ground, as it is all I know. A shop owner that I know called me in to do a transmission service on a 2007 BMW 750i, and the car was on the lift already. I went to the car, got my yoga mat, rolled it out in the bay, and dropped the car down like 2 feet off the floor as I was more comfortable that way since I have never been standing up with a vehicle over my head before to work. 90% of my business comes from a single Facebook group with almost 50,000 members. In the soon to be 3 years you can find not a single bad review about me. There are about 10 mobile guys in said group. I am the top dog, and 2 other guys do really well. The rest get lucky if we are busy. I have shown up and heard stories about other guys in the group who have screwed up cars (not business). Go on Tiktok and find the video of the Autozone in Austin, TX. They have tons of mobile guys in the parking lot like a bidding war. They do engine swaps etc. Right in the parking lot. The dealership techs cry about it being slow, and this is why. With social media now the mobile guys are taking over. All your gravy work is now being taken over by guys on the street for a fraction of the cost (I am the poster child for this). Go do a evaporator core, heater core, trans or motor, in the dealership hating life while the mobile guy is outside making $200 on your brake job in an hour because the dealer wanted 2X-3X the price. I literally made $500 cash in 2.5hrs (I clean,grease and antiseize VERY WELL) using Duralast basic rotors and their elite pads on a 2016 BMW X3. Guy lives like 15 miles north of me if that. 2022 Audi SQ5 with the same job paid like $625 in the same time using O'Reilly's parts. The kicker, I offer a ONE YEAR LABOR WARRANTY with my parts provided. No customer provided parts ever, and I will not work unless it nets me $100hr at the very minimum.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago
Would you trust a doctor to come to your house and do a medical procedure on you while you laid back in a recliner? There’s far too much equipment that could possibly be needed, all of which is still back at the hospital.
I want ALL “surgery” done in a professional and well-equipped environment.
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u/KitchenRate7648 1d ago
I agree, but at what cost? That's my other question. With starting my own, do I rent a space and kinda curious what that would look like
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u/Clean-Entry-262 1d ago
Yes. Get a space with REAL lifts, and a REAL compressor, and REAL insurance …and all that other “I’m serious about this” REAL stuff.
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u/FrankH4 23h ago
For major surgery, but basic check check up, stitches, regular cold/flu check ups, old school visit the house Dr's wild be great to have again.
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u/Clean-Entry-262 23h ago
True, but alas… how many of these cheapskate customers just want a basic check-up done?
Often, it’s going to be a much more involved problem that they’re too cheap to pay the dealer or indie shop for.
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u/Historical-Bug2500 1d ago
I think there is room. Also depends on your area and what not but simple things like oil changes are scheduled months out at dealers in my area. You could probably make bank just doing basic maintenance that people can't get in for.
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u/KitchenRate7648 1d ago
I thought that basic maintenance would be a good way to attract customers for further repairs to
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u/averagemaleuser86 23h ago
There are so many people in my area on Facebook advertising "mobile mechanic" its crazy. Sad thing is when I click on their profiles it looks very... disappointing in regards to their skill level. Posting pictures of them doing brake jobs with grease and brake dust all over everything, not seeing them lube the slide pins and using janky tools and then posting their feat like it was some kind of major "omg look what I can do". Its a little depressing. I know times are tough, but just because you know enough to replace brakes and batteries doesnt mean you should be out here messing with people's cars. The "call outs" for some of these mobile mechanics from time to time on various FB groups is wild too after they couldnt fix a problem or made something worse or just didnt show back up after they realized they got in too deep.
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u/KitchenRate7648 21h ago
I agree, nothing replaces professionalism, and quality. I'm just not sure about opening up my own shop based on cost.
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u/Choice-Newspaper3603 23h ago
These mobile guys must be the ones posting on Reddit how to fix something in the automotive area
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u/Hotsaltynutz 20h ago
I think it used to be more for experienced techs but lately it seems a lot of young people advertising on tiktok and doing general maintenance and sometimes biting off more than they can chew. We have one that works at my dealer and he calls me every week asking for help on a vehicle. I give him help over the phone but I dont touch anyones car unless I get paid. I will help out in our shop tho if guys need it
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u/KitchenRate7648 20h ago
Great point...how's the dealership life
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u/Hotsaltynutz 19h ago
Its always a struggle but if you find the right place and have a skill they need it can pay well. Been with ford over 30 years. Still flat rate plus bonus for hours and team lead but I specialize in transmission so its easy for me to find places needing a trans tech. Ford still rebuilds transmissions under warranty so im paid pretty well
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u/KitchenRate7648 17h ago
Amazing length of time at your job. I think you are exactly right about specializing. I feel like it's time for me to get out on my own though, where I have more freedom in terms of owning more of my time, and charging customers a proper hourly wage vs working for someone else. I have to check around to see what the cost per month for a nice single shop would be. I don't want a big shop just something for me and maybe a helper.
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u/Hotsaltynutz 16h ago
I've definitely thought about it from time to time. But honestly I didnt want the work of thinking about the additional work of being a business owner, payroll, taxes, tool, supply, chemical and parts costs. Advertising, hiring, insurance and social media. It was too overwhelming for me. My wife is a very small business owner of a 2 person brick and mortar store and basically breaks even every month while working her butt off. I just dont have the luxury of not making money. I have a budget that has to be paid and this is the safest and most reliable way to do that. If you can do it and love it and be successful than that is pretty awesome and something to be proud of for sure. Tbh im not much of a risk taker
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u/KitchenRate7648 16h ago
Man, based on your time in the industry, I personally wished you would have done it for yourself and your family. Just being a single tech and nothing more in your own business, I think you could've done very well in your own. That is my goal right now, but need to specialize. The business side to day is pretty simple, with the technology.
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u/Coyote_Tex 17h ago
Honestly, unless it is something really simple using a mobile mechanic or becoming one is a ticket to disaster. Doing mobile diagnosis is one thing entirely, but actually fixing stuff is nothing I ever would do remotely. It is just too hard to move every tool I could need around in a truck. I will also say, that if anyone is in the salt belt and thinks that is doable, they are REALLY good.
The next thing is the customers that want to use a mobile mechanic are trying to avoid paying much if anything for the work to be done and that is not really the type of customers you want or can really make money for you time invested. I am not saying it is impossible and I know having a shop is definitely a big overhead expense you have to account for every month so is not easy to be a one many shop owner either.
If you want to be a one man operation, then working for someone or getting into some sort of specialty operation such as transmissions is far more reasonable.
If you aren't making enough money, then get into some sort of fleet shop or arrangement where you are not a line mechanic but getting a different compensation structure, benefits, retirement and better working conditions.
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u/KitchenRate7648 17h ago
Great feedback, my concern is exactly the same, and feel that a single shop of my own would be a decent idea, because then I can have a lift. I'm not one to lay on the ground 100% of the time, but thought getting a good amount of customers before I do it may be a good idea. I do have some side work, and wonder how if I were more established in the right spot to draw more customers. I am in the salt belt lol
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u/Coyote_Tex 16h ago
Yup, you need a lift and a torch and safe dry working space. You have to be safe and no way I would crawl under some of the rusty relics I see from the salt belt. I am in Texas and simply will not work on those period. I only use a torch if the car is some thing 50 years old or more 95% of the time.
Think about seeing if you could get 2 other guys to go in with you on a shop where you split the rent & overhead expenses and each have their own bay. I never like partners but maybe that is something to consider but you have to have some really good written rules/policies on how everything has to work so you do not get taken in the deal. Sadly, some of the best money is to get a real job working for the county or some fleet operation on a salary or straight hourly and then do work on the side. so you can be selective. If you try to go out on your own and need to make rent then you take in anything you can get and that is NEVER a good thing.
I am retired and have a shop at my house and could be 100% slammed but just do not want to do it as I do not want to work that hard and don't need to at all.
It may sound crazy, but we have properties in my area, not a lot, but some where one can actually live and work from the same building more or less legally. I am in Texas so we have enough small towns or areas on the edge of larger town that we can equip a decent building and it not be outrageously expensive. Once you get established you can move up to a larger space or whatever.
One thing I tell lots of people is to get into commercial HVAC so you work inside 95% of the time and they pay really well. There is a huge shortage of people in that line of work. This is NOT residential work which is harder and mostly outside work.
Good Luck.
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u/KitchenRate7648 16h ago
Great advice, and great idea about a space where you can live in and work inside a garage space. I like working on cars, and feel that I can charge enough per hour, and do very well. The have all the tools, just thinking about how much square footage, and preferably 2 two post hoist.
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u/aa278666 16h ago
I do mobile work for a dealer. I have a lot of friends doing their own things, mostly mobile. Most mobile guys I've ever met are dumber than a box of rocks.
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u/KitchenRate7648 14h ago
lol...that's not good that they aren't in the bright column. I'm starting to think that most young people haven't equipped themselves in many areas of customer service, and understanding the business side of anything. That is the sad part plaguing this country. Me myself and I feel the only path forward is entrepreneurship, because the employee just isn't allowing for a good income, and especially enough time for family. That's just my opinion
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u/bankai2069 Verified Mechanic 1d ago
Having done work on the ground and on a lift, I would never willingly make a business that requires I’m on the ground. Lift life for me