So how has the 6gc faithful been? I have not been on in a long while. I have been very busy, I opened my own car and motorcycle shop. But if u remember me say hello!!! Derrick, Eggman, Andy Thia hope all u guys been good!

Hey man nice work opening your own place! Good to see in these dodgy times

What up Slick. When did you open up your shop? You know we are planning a SoCal meet... Maybe you can stop by? Let me know how running the shop goes, because I plan on doing one in the far far future maybe up north or out of state, and it would be great to get a reality check from someone with the experience. I got years to go though, with school and all.

Yeah the shop is doing very well we have been open a year now this month, we opened right b4 the economy went in the crapper. However we have been doing very well and making progress. But if u need any help in getting your own business off the ground, let me know, since u say its far off the best advice i can give u is keep your credit score up, get all the meaningless pieces of paper at the tech schools (like the certs. and all that stuff, even the one u think are dumb), the banks look at all that stuff even more so now to see if your serious and know your stuff. Its very gratifying but very hard work!!! I wanted 2 be my own boss and work my own hours and i sure do... i get to work any 16 hours of the day i choose

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That sounds awesome, that is exactly what I was wanting to hear from someone I respect and who has experience. Thanks, and I will hold you to that when the time comes. ;-)

And I am glad that it is going really well for you. It sounds like you are banking on your sacrifices.

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Jul 16, 2009 - 2:33 AM

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if your ever in so cal let me know i am in san bernardino u can come hangout at the shop and even wrench on a few cars at your own pace. The hardest part is the diagnostics for the most part, I mean anyone who can read can replace parts a good tech needs to be able to track down problems correctly and fix them all in a timely manner. And a great tech prevents more problems then he fixes So u plans on working on cars, bikes or anything with motor that people will pay u to fix?

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Yeah, actually I am in an Engine Overhaul class and when it comes time to intern to get ASE certified, I will be looking for a place either in SoCal or up North, I just want to get out of Central Valley Cali, because all the cities suck in between.

I am not in UTI or anything like that, because I am also working towards a degree in business. I think that would be ok until I decide if I want to take it further and attack my BA, maybe Auto Engineer or something for that degree would be nice. I dunno. Having a degree is important to me now, because when I worked for Nestle, I will never forget this one guy who got hired on, I forgot what exactly his job was. I just know he had a degree in Theater, which has nothing to do with Nestle, and was starting there making $75k/yr.

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Jul 16, 2009 - 10:03 AM

i dont even get a shout out!

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you dont matter..sorry...

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Too sensitive my boy. See! That's why you need to chill with the boys more and less with the girl, cuz its rubbing off on ya. LOL jk :-P But come to meet, and get some breathing from her dude.

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everyone matters to me!!! how is life treating u Mr. Lew?