Who is EricTheCarGuy?
“I learned what it’s really like to work on cars for a living and it was AWESOME”
While I was in school, I worked at a full service gas station pumping gas and renting moving trucks. I actually got fired from that job, because I got caught working on someone’s 
car on a weekend while no one was there. I was told I was there to pump gas, not work on cars. But within 2 days I had another job, and this time as an actual mechanic working in a real shop and NOT pumping gas. It was the best job I’d ever had. The name of the place was Bob Mathews Import and Domestic Auto Repair, and it was where the REAL learning began. It’s one thing to learn the theory behind auto-mechanics, but quite another to apply it to the real world. Under the wise tutelage of Bob and my other coworkers, I learned what it’s really like to work on cars for a living. And it was AWESOME. I could not wait to get up in the morning and go to work and see what was in store for me. Sure, I had trouble from time to time, but that was the fun of what I was doing. I was getting dirty, and I wasn’t flipping burgers or cleaning up after messy disrespectful people. I was working on their cars and trucks and respected for it. To this day, I’ll never forget what that felt like. The song says, “life is what happens while your busy making other plans”, and the other plans for me came in the form of a move to a new city, Cincinnati. I didn’t want to leave Pittsburgh, but I did (because I was engaged to a really great girl that got a good paying job in Cincinnati) and settled into a new life in Ohio. When I first got there, I took a break and sat around for about 2 weeks eating frozen waffles and playing video games before I decided to get a job. I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but while in school, I worked 7 days a week for a little over a year to make that happen. “Vacation” or “day off” were not a part of my vocabulary it seems, and when the time came, I really needed to collect myself, especially since I missed Pittsburgh and all my old friends so much. After my little “vacation”, I went looking for a job. I just cruised one of the local streets that had a bunch of car dealerships on it and filled out an application at every one. I came home to a ringing phone and in a little more than 4 hours I had a series of interviews lined up. After talking to several of them, I settled on an Acura dealer not far from where I lived, and the rest is history.
