6 Best First Jobs For Car Enthusiasts!

6 Best First Jobs For Car Enthusiasts! Even if you're still in Highschool or College, here are some great jobs to make $9-$25, while still loving your passion! So Summer is coming, which means Summer Break is almost here. It’s time to get your permit or license, learn the pain of commuting, and the glory of grinding as you find your first job. So here are the 6 BEST First Jobs for Car Enthusiasts!
Tire Technician
We’re going to start this video off with the better paying entries, but also one of the most labor intensive ones. Especially if you live in a big city, where the stream of customers will be constant. While some places may require a Highschool Diploma, the only real requirement for most is to simply be 16 years old and willing and able to work.
Do you have a license? Can you drive Manual or are at least willing to learn so you don’t embarrassingly stall a customer’s car or even worse, grind it’s gears? If so, being a Service Porter at a Car Dealership is a fantastic first job!

Ok, now watch the rest of the video to see the other results, I'm not about to hit the character limit on this description pasting my whole script here just to have some dying auto-outlet steal my script and plaster it in one of their listicles.

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[alejandroandrade]

about to finish high school this definitely helps thank you

[panzerkampfwagenmarktiger]

Best part of Discount Tire is driving all the cool vehicles. You definitely have to be experienced and trusted to do this. I’ve managed to drive Hellcats, c8 corvette, c7 zo6 vettes, classics and much more.

[fordcent]

As a valet driver for a golf course I can definitely say it’s amazing job. The tips are insane after you’ve got the chance to form relationships with customers. Most nights you’ll double your hourly sometimes triple. I’ve had the chance to drive a GT3 RS, Mustang Bullet, Raptor R, and so many more. I can’t recommend the job enough.

[jordanseay]

I just got a job as a detailer at a dealership. I have no previous professional experience but even so, I’m starting out at $17/hr. It’s a great gig and it’s an hourly wage unlike most mechanic positions which are flat rate

[AgentZero-]

As a field technician 1 for spectrum internet, he is spot on for the delivery driver spot. I dont have a car, the engine blew and since i needed a car, they provided me one and now i can save.

[nabeelmohammed]

Discount Tire is def my favorite. You learn actual skills instead of monotonous labor, and cool stuff pulls in. Plus you get to learn a lot about tires, which is even better when you start modding your own car.

[HachiKamuri]

"Do note it takes a decent perfectionist to do this job-"

Me: *yes*

[mworld]

My first job out of high-school was working in a dealership service center. Made great money and learned a lot!

[nusko]

I work in a car test center where we test prototypes for private clients and verify that various cars on the road meet the standards (cars are sent to us by the gouvernment so we can test them).

We also do research on new car technology and create various test to see how these technologies react to emergency situation, like making a fake child walk in front of a car moving at 50 kph to see if it brakes without human intervention.

There are alot of different jobs you can do there but most of the interesting ones require a trade certificate or an engineering degree, so it might not be suitable as a first job but something more permanent.

You get to drive around in the latest cars and put them in difficult situations, it's super interesting for any car guy.

[LubLub]

Dude, your timing is impeccable. I just quit my dead end job and as a fledgling car enthusiast was looking for somewhere to start. Thank you 🙏

[jordancarlson]

Honestly I would throw in a parts store position. Whichever one. The zone, advance, O’reilys, Napa, whatever. There’s a lot of stuff I learned from my old commercial manager, and it really helped me effectively solve my customers’ problems.
It’s very area dependent as different stores’ staff has different levels of knowledge and experience, as well as upper management differences, but it exposes you to real world issues that people have with their cars and can help you make a better decision on which cars to look for and avoid, being a new enthusiast.

[JCans]

You missed EMT! Emergency Medical Techs. 3 month cert, it's like a delivery job but all the ambulances are turbo charged or high displacement engines and if they're dying, you have no speed limit.

[IGMattDaMan]

As a former valet, my favourite ones I drove were G-wagons & Ford Raptors, for cars, the most expensive I’ve driven was a high end Bentley

Tips are also pretty good, around 100$/day

[Cookedfrfrfr]

Being a valet sounds really stressful to me because I risk crashing a high end car that isnt mine.

[anthonymason]

One thing to remember with all this great info, dont get a job doing exactly what you are passionate about doing on your own cars: choose a similar but different career path. Most of the time, what was once a passion becomes a source of stress and you will eventually resent it. Kinda like a mechanics car is always just barely running, a paint/body persons car is always a bump away from being totaled. You lose interest... i know that first hand.

[jackmaher]

I’m currently working as a car washer/“detailer” rn, and I got to admit, it is a very intricate field to work in. I’ve had the shop manager give me pointers on how I wash certain cars simply due the car’s paint work. It’s a good job, but agree with Bladed for not going do to this type of work with a complaisant attitude

[SteveOnlin]

I'm going to do my final highschool exams in 3 weeks and I'll look for jobs, i think this video came in a handy time

[brandon]

During covid, I decided to help my dad with his little detailing business that he started, and worked with him throughout the summer and a little bit through my junior year of Highschool. Saved up enough money to buy my first car and had that until I was able to land a job as a service porter at Infiniti. Took about 9 months of hard work, but I now own my dream car at 19 which is a Corvette.

[RyuusanFT]

Started off at Napa Autoparts, moved on to working at dealerships after helping out some shops here and there.

Now I'm a teacher, I'm no longer interested in enthusiasts related jobs aside from racing but I'm not regretful. I gained all the knowledge and experience I can hope for.

[hesnipefr]

Ive worked at an oil change place for a few months now and I’ve got to say it’s not bad at all! I’ve had all kinds of cars come in for an oil change from Porsches to Amg Mercedes Benz’s. Probably the coolest car was a hellcat redeye that came in and did a burnout AND a launch control pull after he got his oil changed😂😂