Guitar let alone that every year its something new to learn or buy tools to fix.I loved when people said you must be making a killing making $65 an hour as that was labor rate at the shop then.Then the morons say company must treat you great bying you all those toos.yeah right.Oh yeah lets not forget the cut body parts all the bruises the wet and cold from rain and snow.Oh yeah you are supposed to work on their junk when they pull in and its 300 degrees under the hood.that and when you tell them they need say 5oo bucks worth of parts to make it right.But hey I Only want to spend 200 bucks and you still can make it perfect.Yeah Im glad Im retired and dont have to deal with most of them.Rocky
It looks like the OP is a truck driver so let's put this in terms he can understand. Let's say whoever it is he drives for comes to him and says I got a run for you but the guy doesn't feel it's worth X amount of dollars. So I need you to do this for half what you would normally get paid.
How does that work for you? Truck drivers generally get paid by the mile right? I know not necessarily by the miles you actually drive though. We'll techs get paid by the job. Nearly every job has a book time so what ever that is, is what we get paid. Say a job pays 3 hours, if it takes us 5 hours we still only get paid 3 hours. If it takes us 1 hour we still get paid the 3 hours.
Being good at our jobs and working hard is how we make money in this business. But make no mistake there are plenty of jobs I lose money on, the ones I make money on are called gravy. There isn't much gravy out there anymore especially in my situation where nearly 100% of what I do is warranty work. Everybody is squeezing tighter and tighter. I used to get about 9 tenths to diagnose and replace an O2 sensor. 3 tenths diagnosis and 6 tenths for the R&R. Now they won't pay the diagnosis and only pay 2 tenths for the R&R.
So yeah why don't some of you guys start working for less than a third of what you would normally be paid and let me know how that works out for you
