21 or younger

[C@m@roLVR]

21 years old when I bought my 2011 last november! No parent help at all.. as a matter of fact.. they said I should have bought a mid-size SUV.

[Bangarang]

Originally Posted by Ivas

I'm curious about how that $36/hr works out. Is that $36/hr per 160 hours in a full month of four 40 hour weeks? And do these full months continue the entire year?

Typically 160-240 hour weeks for 9-12 months of the year. It all depends on the project. Service work is usually 40hours a week commercial and 50 for industrial. Construction is usually 210 hours a month to 260 cause they wanna just finish the job. That's how it is up north generally. Working construction I'll generally pull in $6000 a month and service work is $4000.

[collins motorsport]

Im 21 have an order placed on a ZL1 already put 6500 down got 35k in the bank to go towards it and should have enough to pay it off when it gets here provided my 300c sells

[pianoman35]

I bought my Camaro when I was 19 with a loan, paid it off in about 3 years by myself.

[Ivas]

That all sounds very satisfactory. Good on ya', boys!

[2SSRSinBama]

Originally Posted by Zabo

That's why I gave up on the 5th gen, bought an insanely low mile 4th gen AFTER I got my "fancy piece of paper" and resolved to never look at that piece of paper until I had job security, HC, and other things to support myself and my F Body addiction.

To all you kids with SS cars or LT cars who don't pay a dime on insurance or the payment: Enjoy the real world when that 400/mo insurance bill comes calling or that 600/mo car payment bill comes and threatens a repo.

To those that actually pay out of pocket each month for their cars: Bravo. To those I mentioned in the above blurb..

WGAFF?

that is what is great about down here... i'm single, 26 and pay $150/month for my insurance on two cars(my SS Camaro and my '00 Cavalier work car), full coverage on both, and only a $250 deductible....

payment is $500 a month on the SS but can still easily manage it with my rent, etc... hell, I even have money left over to mod... now when I get married? yeah, car will be put on the back burner for a while but until then, i'm going to enjoy being young in my 20s and having a kick ass car


besides, as of right now: in 2.5 years, my salary will be DOUBLED... pretty much guaranteed(by contract)

down here, we top out about $25/hr(working contract) but the cost of living is ridiculously low, a 2800 sq. ft. home with 2 car garage, 1.5 acres, etc. in a nice subdivision: only a $175-200,000 home

BUT if my career takes the path I hope, i'll be making over $30/hr with the low cost of living(if I land the annual job I am shooting for)

people can hate on the South all they want but living here and having a good job does have its advantages

[infinitiboy92]

I'm 19 got mine when I was 18. Saved all of my money and paying the notes myself. Parents pay for insurance. Thank GOD!!

[diablo5637]

Was 18 when I got mine. About to be 19 in a month. Paying for the car plus mods and gas all by myself. Only thing I still get help with is insurance. But I'm also paying my own way through college plus everything that comes with it. (apartment/utilities/food, etc.)

[xXSilencerXx]

Just because I have a nice cars doesn't mean I don't pay my own bills. I live in the real world, trust me. I just happen to have been working my butt off since middle school to get the things I want.

Originally Posted by 2SSRSinBama

hold up now, just because one doesn't go to college, doesn't mean they aren't "educated"... i'm currently in my 3rd year(of 5) of the NJATC Electrical Apprenticeship program, and when I top out... i'll GLADLY go head-to-head with someone who spent 4 years in College learning about Electricity(our 5th year is learning PLCs and Instrumentation, which would be about 4 more college courses on their degree)... not only will I have 5 years of book knowledge, will have over 8000 hours of on the job training...

I'd be a fool to go to college to become an electrician when a BETTER opportunity is available to me... and when you learn a trade like i'm doing, you don't rely on one job, you have a craft for life... because electricity isn't going anywhere, any time soon, lol

I choose to be Union and its a life I love, however, at the end of a day, I will be a state licensed electrician, not just a "Union Electrician"

This is true, you don't need to have B.S. and B.A. to be "Educated" but at the same time you can't compare yourself to an Electrical Engineer. We go to school for two totally different things that happen to be under the same general category. I would love to take some classes that y'all do to get experience in all scales of electrical circuits, as my major is focused on low-power computing systems and digital communication systems.

[Bangarang]

Originally Posted by xXSilencerXx

This is true, you don't need to have B.S. and B.A. to be "Educated" but at the same time you can't compare yourself to an Electrical Engineer. We go to school for two totally different things that happen to be under the same general category. I would love to take some classes that y'all do to get experience in all scales of electrical circuits, as my major is focused on low-power computing systems and digital communication systems.

I'm planning on doing the same thing, opposite order. As soon as I have my car paid off and enough money saved up for tuition I'm going back to school for electrical engineering. Hopefully within a year or so.

Taking our classes would mostly just help understand how the theory is applied in real life. I don't know how many times I've said "f****ng engineers!!" cause it looks good on paper but not real life!

[xXSilencerXx]

Originally Posted by Bangarang

I'm planning on doing the same thing, opposite order. As soon as I have my car paid off and enough money saved up for tuition I'm going back to school for electrical engineering. Hopefully within a year or so.

Taking our classes would mostly just help understand how the theory is applied in real life. I don't know how many times I've said "f****ng engineers!!" cause it looks good on paper but not real life!

Shweet, it's a fun degree. I have really enjoyed it. Haha nice, we learned that in Senior Design. Come up with an elaborate plan, go to execute it and have to re-engineer the plan to make it work because of unforeseen and overlooked problems.

[Bangarang]

Originally Posted by xXSilencerXx

Shweet, it's a fun degree. I have really enjoyed it. Haha nice, we learned that in Senior Design. Come up with an elaborate plan, go to execute it and have to re-engineer the plan to make it work because of unforeseen and overlooked problems.

I was actually enrolled, but 3 weeks before the start date I got a call to start my 2nd and 3rd year back to back, after accumulating 4000 hours already and realizing that after a year the apprenticeship board can scrap my hours I decided to finish what I started so that I have a career if I don't manage to finish engineering.

My brother is actually a computer engineer, which is pretty similar here. So he said he can help me out most of the way. He said it's a breeze but he's also a freaking genious so I dunno. Hopefully it's not too bad!

[xXSilencerXx]

Gotcha, yea a Computer Engineer is almost identical, just more CS classes instead of control systems and signals classes. Most of my tech electives ended up being CPE stuff.

[LIM3]

all my self , 19
and getting mods to around 7k in