I'm with you Mike. I hate to say it but that ASE certification while
important to you seems to be wasted on many others with the same seal.
Heard too many stories and went to work on too many cars that were
totally messed up by the guy with that patch on his shirt.
I've been doing repairs on most everything I do out of self-defense.
Almost anything I have PAID for someone to do had to be done over.
2nd complaint is the complaints you get when you KNOW what a job entails
and know that very few can do it right but they still whine and whine
about prices or time.
I also found out early in life that when you call a company and find
someone in their employ who has a brain and can actually HANDLE an order
or problem properly, they wont be employed there for very long. <sigh>
Craftsmen do NOT get the respect they deserve, or the compensation.
-Pete
Mike wrote:
> DemoDisk hit on a raw nerve in the 'singing axle' thread. It seems like
> anything that you want someone to do for you, for some outrageous cost
> ($100/hr for a mechanic or a plumber?), usually leaves you with NO
> confidence that they are doing any better job than you could do yourself
> with a little research. This has led me to do just about everything
> myself, from home wiring and plumbing to computer repair. I have
> impossibly high standards: I want things done right. Not mostly right,
> but, well, RIGHT. Correctly. And precious few people of any profession
> are willing to take the time to do that these days.
> I am a mechanic, ASE cert master, and KICK ASS at what I do, but people
> still are skeptical of me, and defer to the judgment of their shade-tree
> mechanic friend to save a few dollars. So, in general, it is hard to
> find a good someone because when you find them, you may well not know
> it. When you do find one, keep them. Treat them well. Listen to what
> they say. If you always want to take the easy and cheap way out, you are
> eventually going to have to pay the piper.
> -Mike
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