At 13 i was a child slave for my dad, cleaning up around a transmission shop. At 15 i was busing tables at PoFolks and slinging pizza for Pizza Hut, then Shakeys Pizza. At 16 i was a school bus maintenance mechanic. At 17 i started wrenching in a transmission shop, then in a general repair garage. At 18 i drove a tractor trailer for about six months, then it was full time in a transmission shop and a bit of moonlighting as a wrecker driver. Dabbled in management and sales, but quickly decided i was not a people person, so stuck with wrenching. I've been rebuilding transmissions full time for around twenty years. It pays the bills, but i'm totally bored with it, so now i'm also remanufacturing transmission valve bodies as a side venture.
