Re: Questions about the trade from someone interested.

"GMdude"  wrote

>     Lazy? Why are you flaming me? I was giving the kid some info on
options.

Sorry....it just bothers me when techs that have been in
dealerships and didn't like it....make it out to be the worst
thing possible in the trade.  It's not the worst place to be
in the trade....in fact, I'd say it's one of the better places
to be.  For all the BS that goes on at the dealerships...it's
still a great place to learn about one product and how to
repair them.

>     I'm a civil servant. Which means that, when you are nice and snuggled
up
> to your pillow, I'm making sure that all the salt trucks, water/sewer
dept.
> trucks, fire engines, ambulances, and police cars stay on the road, so you
> can have a safe trip to work when you wake up. Again, ... LAZY?

You are carrying the "lazy" thing into more places then I
was referring to.  I was simply saying that the fellows that
want to make "an hours wage for an hour worked" are often
the guys that couldn't cut it at a dealership.  Flat rate and
warranty flat rate can be brutal at times, but it's possible
to do quite well at it.

> P.S. I've been giving info to many persons that seek it on this group over
> the past years. I have even backed you up on many of your responses. So,
...
> why the hostility?

Again, sorry.....I'm not as hostile as I probably appeared
in the written word.  While I know all about the negatives of
the dealership end of the trade....I would still recommend a young
tech work in the dealerships before I would recommend that they
work at independent shops.

Ian