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What would you guys do?, Working Professionally On Cars |
Eric Taylor |
Mar 29 2006, 01:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 1-June 03 From: Newport, OR/Eugene Oregon- UO Member No.: 770 |
I’ve been thinking about this post for a while and Britt’s thread about IT got me going again.
Right now I’m at a point in my life where I feel like I’ve got to make a few decisions. I’m about half way through school and finding myself really unsure of what I want to do. I’m currently a journalism major and am finding that I am not as interested in doing what I thought I wanted to do. The jobs I had always dreamed of in TV are starting to disappear and the ones I’m left with are not ones that interest me. So I got thinking about what really does get me going. The part of my life that interests me the most is cars. In working with my little 914 I’ve learned a lot. It really keeps me on my toes, and while I defiantly don’t know everything I have a passion to learn and that’s a lot of why I like it. Right now I’m getting a great experience with a board member in building a 3.0 SC motor. While it’s mostly me watching and holding things, I really love the detail and the intricacy of everything and figuring out how it all works I really enjoy the puzzle of it and piecing it all together. So I turn to my favorite group of car people for advice. What would your guys’ advice be for turning this passion into a profession? I know it would be really hard to walk into a Porsche shop and ask for a job with no actual on the job experience or training. How would you guys go about getting into this world if you were in my situation? Eric |
lapuwali |
Mar 29 2006, 02:56 PM
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Not another one! Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 |
The only thing you can do is try. The worst that happens is a resto shop says no.
Certainly, while you're in school now, you can start taking courses to learn things like welding, metalworking, and basic engineering. Get a day job that pays the bills and start to restore something on your own time. Use that restored car as a tool to sell yourself to a restoration shop for work, or to prospective customers to set up your own shop. You have to make this happen. There's no set career path, and there are a lot of ways to get there. Finish your journalism degree, then enroll in a vocational school to learn the shop skills. If you don't have the cash, get a job, save money, then start. Switch to an engineering major and get a car-related job right out of school with a car company. There's an auto manufacturer IN Oregon: they sell a US version of the Ariel Atom. Go talk to them. If you can convince them you're passionate enough, perhaps they'll offer you a job, or an internship. |
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