[Dori31]

Hey guys
im new around here
im in year 10 and got work experience coming up in June and was wondering if anyone could recommend some good places?
basically anything to do with cars, drift, performance/chop shops, customs, racing etc...
i know quite abit about cars (jap and muscle) mainly theory but willing to learn prac
im from Broadmedows but i'll go anyway in Victoria
and yeh any help would be aprciated, thanx


btw, saving up for a 180SX ;P i get my L Plates soon

[^sly200^]

man u can come clean up my tools after ifinish putin on my cooler and exhaust ?
and if ur lucky il pay u 5 bucks.. isnt that wat kids on work expirence get ? 5 bucks a day LMAO HAHA

[tets]

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

[slinga]

Pretty sure I was on $5 a day.



There is a stickied thread in the top of the Vic section with recommended workshops etc. I'd suggest having a look in there and then giving a few people a call.

[tets]

i got paid 25 a day back when i done work experience.

[KidDynamite]

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 05:07 PM, said:

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

thats awesome work experince 1hrs work a day and then do whatever you want for the rest piss easy il say go with that i know i would back in the day lol

[Dori31]

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 04:07 PM, said:

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

Man ive detailed and preped cars for the summernats so i'd expect a lil more than 5$ a day

slinga, on Apr 7 2009, 04:08 PM, said:

There is a stickied thread in the top of the Vic section with recommended workshops etc. I'd suggest having a look in there and then giving a few people a call.

Yeh i checked that mate, made a few hundred phone calls all day and i have came up with 3 possibilities so far
JDS Drift Team
NISMO
Dr Drift



and was just wondering if anyone out there had some good ideas not on the list ahhaha
yeh da skools bustin my nut over it so i thought i better get a move on lol



and if the experience is good, i dont care for pay. im just happy im gettin a week off skool

[i eat axolotls]

ill pay you $10 an hour to rub my sausage

[shortshifta]

i eat axolotls, on Apr 7 2009, 05:10 PM, said:

ill pay you $10 an hour to rub my sausage

Gimme $12 an hour and you gotta deal

[slinga]

Dr Drift would be a good one, get in with him if you can.

[Steven_ONEVIA]

if u get into supercheap or repco or something theres a chance they will want to keep u as a casual so extra pay means u might get ur 180 a liltle sooner

[tets]

i think it would be very hard for u to get any hands on experience.
no offense but i wouldn't be taking my car to any place that would let a 16 year old work experience kid touch my car.

rather do that myself.

[crzy_1via]

my advice to u for when u start looking at what career path u want to go down

don't make ur hobby ur job.

[RUZJET PERFORMANCE]

I made my hobby my job and it made me hate my hobby.
and I was an awesome bmx rider...

[KidDynamite]

crzy_1via, on Apr 7 2009, 07:30 PM, said:

my advice to u for when u start looking at what career path u want to go down

don't make ur hobby ur job.

huh? please explain that makes no sense if you love it your work time would fly since its your hobby its good

[Steven_ONEVIA]

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

i think it would be very hard for u to get any hands on experience.
no offense but i wouldn't be taking my car to any place that would let a 16 year old work experience kid touch my car.

rather do that myself.

reminds me wen i did work experience at a mechanic shop
the other kid i was doin work experience with he forgot to take off the hub cap and got the air gun and tryed to undo the nuts on the wheel, all we herd was a loud bang the plastic hub cap snapped lol
he didnt get paid for that day

[.ady]

go to panel beaters or spray job joint

[Jimmo]

iDRIFT, on Apr 6 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 04:07 PM, said:

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

Man ive detailed and preped cars for the summernats so i'd expect a lil more than 5$ a day

slinga, on Apr 7 2009, 04:08 PM, said:

There is a stickied thread in the top of the Vic section with recommended workshops etc. I'd suggest having a look in there and then giving a few people a call.

Yeh i checked that mate, made a few hundred phone calls all day and i have came up with 3 possibilities so far
JDS Drift Team
NISMO
Dr Drift

and was just wondering if anyone out there had some good ideas not on the list ahhaha
yeh da skools bustin my nut over it so i thought i better get a move on lol



and if the experience is good, i dont care for pay. im just happy im gettin a week off skool

LOL.

I did my Work Experience at Subaru almost 9 years ago!!! It was fun gettin to go for blasts in WRXs and Liberty B4s

[i_s2_nismo]

do it somewhere where you can get a job afterwards easy... get into that place and work as hard as possible... not only will you finish work experience afterwards but you will have an alright job at the end of it... leave cars as a hobby and a hobby only...

[Nick Taylor]

GO TO MACCAS LOL

i did roofing for work experiance was alright ended up doing it a bit more afterwards during holidays
got paid abit for doing it aswell i ended up with around 500 bux after 2 weeks work lol i did it for 2 weeks as we had school holidays the week after work experiance week and i stayed on coz i wanted money

[SkEdY_WAnTs_A_180]

my jobs my hobby and i dont hate cars
yet...
i dont no if it will happen cause my work is pretty laid back lol

during my work experiance my boss seen me bludging with my hands in my pockets.
starts yelling across the workshop at me telling me to find something to do and goes on how hes not gonna pay me for the day...
it was 5 bucks shit i got more money of my folks for lunch ahahha

[MeRlz]

so wait you got a possibility to work at nismo?

autolink or whatever

and your asking us what else is good?

[REXUR-8]

iDRIFT, on Apr 7 2009, 05:45 PM, said:

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 04:07 PM, said:

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

Man ive detailed and preped cars for the summernats so i'd expect a lil more than 5$ a day

slinga, on Apr 7 2009, 04:08 PM, said:

There is a stickied thread in the top of the Vic section with recommended workshops etc. I'd suggest having a look in there and then giving a few people a call.

Yeh i checked that mate, made a few hundred phone calls all day and i have came up with 3 possibilities so far
JDS Drift Team
NISMO
Dr Drift



and was just wondering if anyone out there had some good ideas not on the list ahhaha
yeh da skools bustin my nut over it so i thought i better get a move on lol



and if the experience is good, i dont care for pay. im just happy im gettin a week off skool

hahaha jds drift team

wat u gonna do go work in khudars garage at his house weld diff's

[swilly01]

Jimmo, on Apr 8 2009, 08:59 AM, said:

iDRIFT, on Apr 6 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

tets, on Apr 7 2009, 04:07 PM, said:

u can wash my car every day for a week. and ill give u 5 a day.

Man ive detailed and preped cars for the summernats so i'd expect a lil more than 5$ a day

slinga, on Apr 7 2009, 04:08 PM, said:

There is a stickied thread in the top of the Vic section with recommended workshops etc. I'd suggest having a look in there and then giving a few people a call.

Yeh i checked that mate, made a few hundred phone calls all day and i have came up with 3 possibilities so far
JDS Drift Team
NISMO
Dr Drift

and was just wondering if anyone out there had some good ideas not on the list ahhaha
yeh da skools bustin my nut over it so i thought i better get a move on lol



and if the experience is good, i dont care for pay. im just happy im gettin a week off skool

LOL.

I did my Work Experience at Subaru almost 9 years ago!!! It was fun gettin to go for blasts in WRXs and Liberty B4s

I did my work experience at mercedes benz in south melbourne. Best job ever. Literally just rolled around all day in SL55 AMG's etc...pretty much drove in every merc they had on the showroom floor, and other customers cars. These two guys (who were 20 and 21) and were actual employees had the best job ever. Just drove the cars from place to place getting tyres changed etc, drove the cars hard too.

[Dori31]

thanx for the reply dudes
hmm rolling around in merc's all day does sound tempting

prob will go with DrDrift but yeh always open to opinions

my ideal career is to became a mechanical engineer for FPR (which is like 10mins from my house) or even in Japan or USA, tuning D1 cars
yeh its a long shot lol

[crzy_1via]

^^^mate im studying mech eng atm, great coarse. just make sure u really love ur maths and physics or u wont like this coarse. dont go into this coarse thinking u will be building awesome cars, this is a design coarse. so doing something like going to a mechanic will not help u at all. someone like drdrift is good, try learn about parts of cars, how they work, the physics behind it rather than how to fix them cos that wont mean shit to u.

also if u can get work experience in any drafting place will be way better for u in the long run as u may be able to get a part time job there, which will really help u with ur studies. make sure u go into this coarse expecting that at the end of it u wont have a job in australia. the workforce for mech eng in aus is really shit at the morning if u want to do something with cars. if u go to rmit they sort u out with ibl (industry based learning), if ur achieving good marks, u can request to go to germany, usa, or japan. which is what ill be doing when im done. its 1 year of paid work experience (75% of qualfied engineers pay), then u come back and finish ur 4th and last year of the coarse, then most people are offered full time jobs where theyve done ur ibl. keep ur head down through school, do the hard work now, itll save u alot of time and effort .

[Dori31]

yeh bro fully agree with ya

i tried many mech eng places before i tried this . all were full or didnt take places

crzy_1via, on Apr 9 2009, 12:39 PM, said:

also if u can get work experience in any drafting place will be way better for u in the long run

whats that?


yeh id love to go to japan or usa but couldn't afford it

atm in yr10 im achieving pretty high marks, already started a VCE IT course (accelerated) and i'll try specialist+methods and physics in my year 11 subjects
i'd like DrDrift cause i want to get into drift as a hobby when i get my 180, like join Vic Drift and all that + i wonna do alot of the work to my car myself
i was thinking of taking a mech course at tafe over the xmas holiyz this yearto help me understand them more- i just know alot of theory atm

[crzy_1via]

forget doing a coarse to learn about cars. read, read, ready. the internet is all u need. im just wrapping up building my own car from ground up pretty much based on thing i learnt just from reading and asking questions. never taken my car to a mech except to have it tuned.

drafting place is where they do drawings. things like autocad. cad is computer aided design. those places usually take alot of kids for work experience. sure ull prob be getting them coffee and wiping their ass when they shit, but u get ur foot through the door, theyll show u some basics, then u might be able to get something part time, even pushing papers till u start ur coarse, then theyll have u do some basic drawings and shit.

[Dori31]

hmm okaii
yeh the net is the best tool ;P
how did u get in mech eng?
like what subjects did you take up in VCE, What course and uni are you in, wat enter score did u need to get in etc...
soz for being direct... just curious on how to get in to this

[crzy_1via]

u have to do maths methods as a prerequisite, but i highly recommend u do physics as well as most of the first year will be recapping on the school shit so its good u have a sound understanding of it. only do specialists if ur really good at maths other wise itll f**k u over.

i got into it cos i knew what i wanted to do ever since i was ur age and havent looked back since.

i did methods, chemistry, hhd, english and vis comm in year 12. but if i could do it again i would do, methods, specialist, chem, physics, english. known as the asian 5 or suicide 5. but thats me.

enter score to get into my coarse when i graduated year 12 in '05 was 91, but its gone down a bit now cos the trade is under high demand.