Careers In The Automotive Industry

Automotive Engineer: Auto Body Shop Owner
If you dig on working with your hands, then this is a good route to check out. If you don't have good people skills, though, you might want to reconsider—a big part of the job is telling people what's wrong with their car. This may not sound really all that daunting, but remember, people have a special fondness for their cars and don't really know how they work, so when you tell them that it is going to cost them $2,500 to fix it, you better do so nicely and be able to explain everything. People...

Automotive Engineer: This Job is not without its Perks
I had a bunch of bad jobs in my day, stuff that didn’t pay squat, or if it did, was torturous. So I went to school and learned how to fix cars. I was always something of a “car guy,” but how they worked was still rather elusive to me. As it turns out, though, they’re really not very complicated machines. I like working with my hands, building and repairing things, and with this job I get to do just that…plus, girls get real turned on by the grease beneath my fingernails.