journeymen body men are mean as fuck. They get comission and view hourly guys like me as a threat. The harder I work the more
mean they are. They lie to bosses about my performance, they take credit for work I do, and get paid their commision on it, and
bosses don't know how hard I'm working cause it gets hidden from them. If I ask one of them how to gingerly take off a certain moulding or something
they'll come over and break it off. No shit man, it's fucking rough for the new guys. Most of my actual hands on body work experience has been side work
or from school. Most of the time they'll have me wash cars or sweep even though I way over qualified. So there hasn't been room for me to advance in a lot
of places so I quit and search for a shop where everyone's hourly. I only make up to $10 an hr, which is ridiculous considering my skill level. Anyhow, to top it off
I finally get what I think is my big break. I get a performance test to be a mobile tech that does bodywork and paint. I did really well on the test but I made one tiny
mistake, but being that I'm an ASE certified tech I knew exactly how to fix it and did. The end result looked as good as journeyman painters work, and not all journey
men can do bodywork. So I didn't get hired cause of that one mistake and that's a shit load of money I missed out on. I would have pulled in 50k and up at that place, and
I barely missed getting the job. The thing that's bumming me out was that I spent the weekend thinking I was gonna get the job and finnally have all my hardwork pay off, but I got the call on Monday that I didn't get it. Now it's back to finding that one $10 an hr job that will help me advance if I'm lucky. Sorry for being grumpy lately. I'm just feeling like life sucks now.
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