Fix the timeline…

Is The Process™ in the room with us, right now?

God: I’m going to make humans, and I’m going to give these humans free choice… but i already know what all their choices are going to be because I can see the past, present, and future, which means that it’s all already written. I actually made them to be the person they are and give them the experiences they need to be the person I want them to be. So, they only get to think they have freedom to make choices and decisions. Then I’m going to make them feel bad for making the choices I made them make. Then they’ll love me because they’ll feel bad for not loving me. And it’ll seem to me to be their choice to love me. I need to be loved. I’m very insecure.

Lou: yo dude, you’re fucked up. I do not wanna work for you

God: shocked_pikachu_face.png

Lou: you are not very good at this anyway, I bet I can do it as good a you can. You’re sad.

God: go to hell, Lou.

Lou: fine, but I’m taking my friend’s with me. Douche.

Auto co-wrecked?

In *whales

Will they? Yes.

Will it matter? No.

Sounds a little like Gym Jordan is trying to get democrats to take control of the House

Awwww, poor lil Shuckle didn’t do anything to deserve that

Get good, kid… you can’t even legally call yourself a baker until you’ve cooked up a couple Frisbees that would be considered lethal weapons in Australia

Wow, y’all are ruthless (i wonder where Ruth went!)

My first 2 or 3 loaves ever kinda looked a bit like this way back when I first started too.

Failure or the first step to success. Otherwise, it’s just luck.

DEGENERATION EXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Yessir, and i certainly trust TubularTittyFrog (definitely not a troll), who self-admittedly has no experience as a mechanic or in the the mechanical industry and has demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of basic statistical analysis, to be able to interpret and translate those data to me, a simple grease monkey.

Thank you, friend, for sharing your massive endowment of knowledge and experience in all things you have no knowledge or experience in based on your clearly superior powers of… ummm… (checks notes)… reading words and numbers on Google?

It was so generous of you to spare so much time with your thoughtful and heartfelt responses, all to show me the light and the way in this matter of utmost urgency and concern!

🤣🤣🤣 you fucken jabroni 🤣🤣🤣

Ok, well I’m glad you googled your facts. The internet is never wrong or misleading. You would definitely know all about that, being a very successful IT person…

I don’t think i said any of that. I think you’re just more upset than you need to be. You are angry typing and making all kinds of mistakes.

I never said college was dumb, I said you don’t need it for my job. I graduated college with under $5k debt. You said college for 10 years, and that would put you at well over an undergrad degree, unless you were taking like 4 credits a term. A masters degree will cost you around $150k and 10 years.

I never said everyone should be a mechanic, but there is nothing wrong with it. It’s not hard to make money unless you stay in a dead end position. That’s the same for almost any career tho.

I also never said you were either rich or poor. I don’t know or care about your financial positions in life. Much like your genitals: unless they’re being used on me, it’s none of my fucken business what you got.

I did make poor choices when I was young, but I am now older and have made much better decisions as I grew, coincidentally enough starting with a bicycle mechanic job. It was super cool and I learned a lot. But you are right, it didn’t pay the bills.

So I found a different mechanic job, one that paid around triple the bike mechanic job. It was somewhere I’d seen advertised for some time, so i checked it out and it made sense. I drove all over my state doing field service work. It was a good job, but i was at the “national average” pay for mechanics at that time. So I found another job, it paid around 50% more and had much better benefits and all the overtime i wanted (it wasn’t mandatory). I worked there a couple years and found another job that paid 25% more, and for the first time in my life, I was earning over $100k, and no overtime necessary.

The thing is, these last several jobs have been constantly hiring entry level mechanics at “national average” or higher since long before i started.

You seem to have a lack of understanding about being a mechanic. I can guarantee you that, as a mechanic. Unless you don’t want to try, the chances of you being stuck in a bike shop at $20/hr for the rest of your life is much lower than “99999/10000” (999.99%🤣) in fact, it doesn’t even approach 100/10000 (you know, 1%).

Anyway, don’t be so mad, and don’t take everything so personal. I’m not trying to make fun of you or hurt your feelings.

Wow, for someone so educated, you sure make a lot of odd assumptions.

Perhaps I am more educated than you assume, even if a formal education is not required for my job.

Also, I’m gonna make an assumption now about your education, based on things you’ve said here… someone as condescendingly smart as yourself and using averages to discuss things like this has certainly taken at least some statistics classes and understands what a “standard deviation” is… and how that might be affected by extremely low paying jobs in one sector, even if those are not the most prominent paying jobs or abundant positions in that sector.

I think the standard deviation of pay for mechanics is much wider than you think, and possibly skewed by other factors than just simple geography.

I’m not saying that all mechanics make IT wages, but i am saying that I didn’t have to spend 10 years in school and $150k in debt to compete for a position that I earn 6 figures in. My job is not competitive for positions, they’re pretty abundant. Base pay for this position in my area (not a big city) is substantially higher than the national “average.” No formal education required.

But I must ask, why u so mad bro? Sounds like you’re living the dream life, no need to have an aneurism about other people’s money

Wow, you have it hard in IT i guess. Maybe you should have looked into being a mechanic.

You don’t need a degree to get jobs as a mechanic, so no formal education necessary. You don’t have to worry about jobs being hard to find because basically everything that moves has bearings that need to be changed. You don’t need to worry about contract work because there are substantial amounts of mechanic jobs that pay hourly and offer tons of overtime.

I’m not sure why it’s so offensive to you that plenty of people don’t have the experience you heard about from “every mechanic you met.”

I… uh… i am a mechanic. I just don’t work in a car shop that pays only billable hours. Why would you do that to yourself?

That would be like getting a minimum wage serving job and hoping the tips will be reliable.  ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I never struggle for hours, I have great benefits, non- union, no certs, degrees, or specialization required. I make enough to pay all my bills, invest in retirement, and still have money left over for life afterward. I work with a gang of guys all doing the same. We work in a field where we can go pretty much anywhere and get another job paying about the same.

I’m not sure why the mechanics you have met can’t find these jobs, but they have all misinformed you.

How much do you think mechanics get paid today?

Why are people talking like being a mechanic is bum work, or like there’s a huge overhead cost in being a mechanic, or that you have to go to trade school to be a mechanic, or like mechanic work is going away?

None of these is true.

Mechanics will always have work, usually with overtime, and usually pay is very decent.

No degree required. Certs optional.

Tools are very affordable when you’re not buying them all at once.

Lots of room to change specializations.

ICE mechanics are still going to be hugely in demand because the Internal Combustion Engine isn’t going anywhere, even if they stop putting them in some/ most automobiles. But there are dozens of other mechanical disciplines, and as long as you know how to (when to) then a wrench, you can always get a job.

A bearing is a bearing, whether it’s on a crank shaft, an electric motor, a tail pulley, or a garage door.