I'm an auto tech at a chrysler/jeep dealership. I guess its an okay job. I dont know if I want to do this for the rest of my life, but I'm kinda stuck with it. I didn't go to college, so I dont have a degree to fall back on. but I also look at it as I didn't waste huge amounts of money going to college and being bored out of my mind and not going to half the classes

. If you do end up becoming a mechanic, try as hard as you can to get into a upper end company like BMW or MB, they pay the most and 99% of the cars that go through their dealerships are very new so you wouldn't have to work on 20 year old junk like I do sometimes.