aussiesmg wrote:I sometimes wonder if I would lose the passion if I worked on cars daily, making your hobby a job can spoil the hobby.
Truer words have never been spoken... I used to LOVE motorcycles, riding them, working on them, racing them and just being around them. After I dropped out of college I decided to go to school to be a motorcyle mechanic, since I already had a lot of mechanical back ground and love of the subject matter, I sailed through school and graduated top in my class. Two and half years of working in the buissness soured me completly. I still like bikes, though not like I used to, but I can't imagine ever working in that buisness again. At least my education hasn't gone to waste. Machines are all just machines, a formal education as an M/C mechanic coupled with a back ground in Ag equipment, cars, electric motor control and industrial hydraulics makes an unstopable industrial vehicle technician. (but sadly still under paid
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