I am currently interviewing to be a Jaguar Tech and was curious if any current techs had any words of wisdom.

 

Welcome to the forum scaracci24,

I've amended your thread title to attract the attention of the Techs amongst the membership.

Good luck with the interview.

Graham

 

Welcome scaracci24! Sorry I'm late to the party.

I hope your interview went well. I don't know what you've been doing, but such a change can be at once fun, rewarding, challenging and frustrating. But that would apply to ANY career change, especially in this day and age. As long as fixing a machine is something you like to do, you will probably be fine. But to be good you have to jump in with both feet and be diligent; you will never stop learning, never stop training and never stop being frustrated. The frustration comes when a job seems to get the best of you. You just have to tell yourself, it's a machine, nuts and bolts and........software! When that happens to me, I just tell myself I need to learn something else because I haven't fixed it yet.
The learning doesn't stop at the machine either. You'll need to keep learning about tools, equipment and methods. In short, information is everything, but experience always helps. You'll get that soon enough.

I've been at this since 1974 and I still get out of bed ready to do it again.
I don't know whether that makes me content, or crazy! Some will say the latter, I'm sure.

Good luck!

 

I left the Jaguar dealer back in 2006 but I still work on them daily here at my own shop. I loved to take things apart and put them back together when I was a kid so I have been a mechanic most of my life. Bicycles, minibikes, go-carts, and then on to motorcars in 1973 (a 1958 VW Beetle)

I also liked to build crystal radios then learned about transistors, other semiconductors and then HEATHKIT RADIOS (anybody remember them???)

I like the coincidence that cars became so electronic but some people don't.

Get skilled in both mechanical and electrical and you will NEVER have to worry about finding a job!!!!! Most of my job interviews (after 5 or so years of fixing cars) ended with "WHEN CAN YOU START?????"

CAUTION..... Collecting tools can be habit-forming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck with your endeavor.

bob gauff

 

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I should clarify that I am a career technician with a certain Bavarian company and was wondering also how Jags are as far as working on them specifically? Its been 10 years and I've only worked on one brand. Do you all enjoy working on Jags? Thanks again.

 

Hope someday one of you will open a shop in Eastern Washington state!