Decide on something you want to try building, then look up tutorials and videos on Google and YouTube. Start small and work with what you have or can easily acquire.

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Build something!

Got a great idea for a business? Do research, audit a business class, interview local business owners, or talk to your mentors and find out what it takes to start your own business. 

Career

Learn how to start your own business. 

Enroll in an automotive class at your school, in your community, or online and give it a try! Explore different fields: design, mechanics, engineering, technology, and more. 

Education

Take an automotive class.

Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul automotive vehicles.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed

Test drive vehicles and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.

Inspect vehicles for damage and record findings so that necessary repairs can be made.

Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.

Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.

Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.

Troubleshoot fuel, ignition, and emissions control systems, using electronic testing equipment.

Confer with customers to obtain descriptions of vehicle problems and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.

Test electronic computer components in automobiles to ensure proper operation.

Tear down, repair, and rebuild faulty assemblies, such as power systems, steering systems, and linkages.

Perform routine and scheduled maintenance services, such as oil changes, lubrications, and tune-ups.

Follow checklists to ensure all important parts are examined, including belts, hoses, steering systems, spark plugs, brake and fuel systems, wheel bearings, and other potentially troublesome areas.

Plan work procedures, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.

Align wheels, axles, frames, torsion bars, and steering mechanisms of automobiles, using special alignment equipment and wheel-balancing machines.

Tune automobile engines to ensure proper and efficient functioning.

Repair, replace, or adjust defective fuel injectors, carburetor parts, and gasoline filters.

Repair and service air conditioning, heating, engine cooling, and electrical systems.

Disassemble units and inspect parts for wear, using micrometers, calipers, and gauges.

Change spark plugs, fuel filters, air filters, and batteries in hybrid electric vehicles.

Overhaul or replace carburetors, blowers, generators, distributors, starters, and pumps.

Repair or replace parts such as pistons, rods, gears, valves, and bearings.

Rewire ignition systems, lights, and instrument panels.

Install, adjust, or repair hydraulic or electromagnetic automatic lift mechanisms used to raise and lower automobile windows, seats, and tops.

Rebuild parts, such as crankshafts and cylinder blocks.

Conduct visual inspections of compressed natural gas fuel systems to identify cracks, gouges, abrasions, discoloration, broken fibers, loose brackets, damaged gaskets, or other problems.

Diagnose and replace or repair engine management systems or related sensors for flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) with ignition timing, fuel rate, alcohol concentration, or air-to-fuel ratio malfunctions.

Retrofit vehicle fuel systems with aftermarket products, such as vapor transfer devices, evaporation control devices, swirlers, lean burn devices, and friction reduction devices, to enhance combustion and fuel efficiency.

2-channel lab scopes

3 pound sledge hammers

5-gas emissions analyzers

Adjustable wrenches

Air compressors

Air conditioner chargers

Air drills

Air sanders

Alignment wrenches

Allen wrenches

Alternating current/direct current AC/DC inductive current clamps

Anti-lock braking system ABS/air bag scan tools

Antifreeze recovery equipment

Anvils

Awls

Ball joint separators

Ball peen hammers

Bandsaws

Battery chargers

Battery hydrometers

Battery load testers

Bench lathes

Bolt cutters

Borescopes

Box end wrenches

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