I was raised around/ working on cars and motorcyles. Have a big brother Ive always looked up to that has been into various performance cars and mechanical work for as long as I can remember. So eventually, Went to tech school for automotive technology while working as a lube tech for a local Hyundai dealer. Finished class with very good grades and got bumped up to a 2nd year apprentice, put in 2 years till I reached journeyman (although I was doing pretty much the exact same things during my time as an apprentice). Spent roughly a year and a half to two years there as a journeyman, decided I didn't really want to do the whole dealership thing for the next 30+ years so I found a job with a large local public transit agency starting off making more than I would have at the dealer 4 years down the road and less headache. Since I've been there, only about 1.5yr so far (12/21), I've worked on servicing and repairing Gillig busses and Siemens light rail vehicles.