Some odd years ago my big paw paw’s dad bought a model T brand new. Well his dad crashed it and he had to learn how to fix. That is the short sweet version to our family’s start into mechanics. Now if you would have called him a technician he would have probably put his size 13 up your rear. He like me and the rest of my family is a believer in not trying to be something you are not. I mean I can finally, about 4 years ago call myself an actual mechanic. I came up through the ranks as a trainee. I didn’t even get to touch an engine in a truck other than changing the oil and filters. I once had a job interview and the man asked if I was a technician? I said no sir I am a mechanic. Needless to say I did not land that job. But with that being said, that is exactly what is wrong with shops today they are full of techs and not mechanics.
In today’s world shops are filled with techs. These guys in my mind are just parts changers in the sense that they do not know how to diagnose anything. They will pretty much remove your radiator cap and drive a new car under it before they find a bad spark plug or a shorted wire. And for this, tech schools are to blame. These schools bring kids in, teach them a few things, hand them a piece of paper saying you are a tech now. Well I am sorry you are not even close to being a mechanic at this point, you are really not even experienced enough to run a grease gun. Now with that statement this does not apply to everyone of course. One case is my friend Scott he was a mechanic before he even knew it. He was sucked in on the whole scheme they would teach him what he didn’t know. But he was the one doing the teaching.
It is just a shame today guys wanna be mechanics go to schools and don’t even show enough intiative to learn. They just wanna put on a patch tell people I work at a dealer and think they are a mechanic. But they don’t know half about being a mechanic. The old timers are the only real mechanic left. These guys now how to diagnose with out a computer , rebuild a starter or alternator. These are the guys I look up and will always look up to. They are a dying breed, they have been replaced with mostly no talent ass clowns who think it is cool to be a technician. When in fact its not cool it is honorable. Use to be people looked up to mechanics. Mechanics were the ones that saved the day in a short time. Now you take your car to the shop a technician tears it all apart, calls you to the shop and says this is whats wrong. This is legalized rape. A mechanic could look at it drive it, then put it up on the rack bring you and and say here is your problem. He would also tell you how he had to fix it, if you didn’t like it he would let you go and wait for the next customer. The “technicians” cant do that they cant keep customers so they have to rape you force you to let them fix your car or truck, then really not even fix it right.
Now do not get me wrong this was not meant for everyone. I know there rare still good mechanics out there. A lot of them are my friends. Some of them have their own shops and they stay busy and have more work than they can handle. These are the mechanics. It just ticks me off when they bring a kid out of tech school, pay him more than me and he has to use my tools cause he has none. And, he also tries to correct me on something he knows nothing about. I wish these guys would have stayed on their couch playing video games and smoking weed while their mom bakes them cookies. So when someone asks me what I do for a living and I say mechanic, they try to say oh a tech. I poke my chest out a little bit and say no mechanic. The day my dad called me a mechanic I knew I could call myself one.
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