A simple show of hands will tell that many of us someday wish to own our own shop. This is a very solid and attainable goal for many of us as we move through our careers- because it doesn’t take 30 years in the field to realize that whatever the shop charges is usually several times the labor rate that they are paying you. However, while it can be very lucrative, especially if you find a profitable niche market early on, you will find that you are quickly doing less of the ‘fixing of cars’, and more of the ‘everything else besides fixing cars’. In this episode we outline some of the things that skilled techs should take into consideration before you pull the trigger on going out on your own. Partnering with people who can help you run things will let you do more work in the shop and drastically increase your chances of success. At the end of the day, as technicians we are not afraid of hard work, so going out on our own is a pretty damn good option.
Also, we don’t really have a funny Uncle Jimmy one liner because this is actually a fairly straightforward and helpful episode…for once. Weird.