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[MirKz]

Hey everyone,

after finally finishing my tafe course (pre-app auto mechanic) and doing some work experience ive realised that is not worth becoming a mechanic (no offense to those who are.) I just think that the little pay that is recieved is a joke, considering when doing an apprenticeship half the time you could be treated like crud (depending on the place u goto) and u get ure ass worked off. Work experience also showed me that, being a mechanic... is just not for me.

Anyways, ive come out of the course knowing more about cars than what i did when i went in, which is exactly what i wanted. Now i want to find a job doing something else, but im unsure what is out there that has decent pay, fairly fun and that would interest me.

Im just looking for ideas, so if you have some (seriously ... dont want random "jokes"), please put em down here, or PM me... either way. It'd be much appreciated.

I just dont wanna end up sitting around the house for 6 months like i did after yr 12, its just boring and not worth it. I wanna get out there and start puttin away some $$bling bling$$

Cheers for any help people!

[Dsturbd]

I have been in the industry for 11 years and i hate it... at least i can fix my car cheap :thumbdwn:

[2crazy]

I know the feeling MirKz.... i've just finished 3 years of uni studying accounting and i don't know if i want to work in the industry i've spent the last 3 years studying for. But i found a job where i get to do all the things i like as well as some of the things i've studied and get paid. :headspin:

Start looking in the paper and see if you find something you like

[CWest]

Hey I finished uni ages ago and worked in Marketing for about 5 years. The pay was damn good but I always felt it wasnt right working in that field. The point was u had to sell products so your pay depended on how well your products sold and also the number of lies, manipulation and utter effort you had to give to sell these products. Anyways i decided to do a quick 2 year part time course in programming and have worked in IT now for about 3 years as a programmer. IT is great if you have a knack for computers and it has a great creative outlet if you go into the programming side if things. And it really isnt all that hard. Good luck in your choice.

[Ronin]

I thought about being a mechanic too a long time ago, i did work experience aswell and realised the same thing thing you did..it sux. Apprenticeship is a joke, i made more money working at foodland. I work in I.T. now and make $40 an hour, infact i'm getting paid to read SAU right now

[MirKz]

ahaha, yeah I.T. is all well and good, i mean i could do it easily, its just that i rekon i might get bored of sittin in front of a computer all day, who knows. But yeah ive got a part time job, and with working 3 hrs a day i would actually earn more than what i would working fulltime as an apprentice.

i think i will have to look in the paper.

Someone suggested airbrushing cars and creating decals and vinyls, sounds interesting cus i like drawing and art sorta stuff, if i can get a nack for it.

[MirKz]

well i had a look in the paper, just for an idea on whats out there, and to me most the things in there sounded quite boring. Like receptionist this and that, and half the jobs you needed experience in the area etc. this is gonna be a real prick of a thing deciding what i wanna do. i just know it

[JH32]

The thing about IT is that it used to be a booming industry ... I hear the jobs are starting to dry up a bit now. My next door neighbour finished his Computer Science degree a year ago and has only just got a job last month.

What sort of qualifications do you have?

As that will affect what you can do.

[zanda]

go to tafe and do a 12-D CAD design course.

if your a good 12Der, you've got a licence to print money.

it's a scam.

[Ronin]

In reality if you want to get into the I.T. industry you need experience these days. You can have as many bits of paper with your name on it as you want but they don't mean squat. Its who you know not what you know in the I.T industry these days. Thats how i got my first job, through a person i know. My employer didnt even look at mt my resume. Just went on the word of my friend.

[MirKz]

yeah thats how i got my current part time job, through a friend.

i was basically hired before i even got there for the interview.

My qualifications are about this.

Completed and graduated yr12, have a buncha of certificates for worksafe, have a cert 2 in IT and just completed cert 1 in pre-apprenticeship automotive mechanic.

Ive worked as a delivery guy, storeman and set up displays and stock on showroom floor (family business),

now i work as a cleaner at kwinana powerstation.

and thats about it, done work exp at shacks holden, a dunlop tyre and service centre and at import scene in wangara.

[Butters]

Stay the heck away from IT

Been in the IT industry 7 years now.

There are about 1500 new IT qualified UNI/Tafe students being pumped out in Perth each year.

And about 150 NEW IT jobs each year.

Do the math Mofo's. Empoyers have and IT wages are dropping through the floor.

/end bitter IT rant .......

[MirKz]

yeah ive heard the IT industry is a waste of time, hence why i didnt do it after yr12, cus it woulda been easy for me to do it cus i can use computers pretty well. I knew that everyone was doing IT and the jobs were filling it so i thought stuff it, i need something else to do.

Im thinkin about getting good at airbrushing and my drawing, and then combine the two and do anime/manga style artwork on cars. ... i dunno yet. but whilst im doing nothing, i may aswell brush up on it all.

to check out my old pics (havent drawn for a while now... a good 6 months or so)

www.southwest.com.au/~mirks/Manga

[25GTT]

Well for me i did IT for 6 years creating and installing million dollar E-comerce packages for the health system in WA not just normal E-commerce but Gentran. When it comes to online ordering in hospitals lives can depend on it it was nice being woekn up at midnight to run down to east perth data store when 5 servers are being a bit sick. Pay was great but job satisfaction wasn't. Now i work for Zest health clubs! I get to talk to people all day and walk people around who are interested in m'ships! i change is as good as a holiday they say! I am thinking of doing a Australian Institute of Fitness course in Feb. once finished i will be a fully qualified perosnla trainer then the $$$ start rollin! YAY!!

[gtrken]

When I was doing my apprenticeship , computers had only just started and 256 was the quick ones.

I did a mechanical apprenticeship and wasn't too fussed about it because of the shit you cop from every one.

IT started and I saw lots of guys making big money because there was no one to fix the computers.

These days it looks like every one is in the IT and white collar field and there is no one to fix the cars...

Trust me , if you are good at your job as a mechanic , there is plenty of opportunity and you can start your own business which is when ( with hard work ) the money will come.

Pick a market that is not being catered for and a few angles that shops haven't thought of and you will be surprised

Cheers

Ken

[MirKz]

cheers guys,

yeah well i really dont think being a mechanic is what i want. so im gonna try stay interested in engines etc (which i am) but i just dont wanna work on them and fix things day in and day out.