Chatting with netizens today, he asked me, saying that the salary of repairing a big car is very high and the benefits are relatively good, but no one is willing to learn car repair, very few new people enter the industry, and there is no successor, why is this?
Why?
In fact, the reason is very simple, four words can be summed up: bitter and dirty!
Since I graduated, I have been working in the automobile team of state-owned enterprises, contacting large trucks and construction machinery, and I have personally worked as a car repairman for a period of time, and now I am in direct contact with these repairmen, and I have personally experienced the heartache and tears of the big car repairers. Along the way, I watched the number of repair workers go from seventy or eighty at the most to less than ten now (of course, the size of the convoy is also shrinking, the number of vehicles is decreasing), and the age has changed from the twenties when they entered the factory to the current fifties. Now the youngest repairman is 52 years old, the average age is 57 years old, has not been a new person for many years, some connections have been transferred to do other work, and the rest are impatient honest people. In their words, it is too hard to work as a repairman, and I will never do it again in the next life, nor will I let my children do this job. Let me tell you how hard it is to be a big car mechanic.
1. Bitterness
It is said that there are four major sufferings in life: pig bitter bile, yellow noodles, children without mothers, and bare sticks. I say that none of this suffering is as much as that of a big car repairman. Due to the large size of the truck, it is generally repaired outdoors, so the impact of ambient temperature on people is very large, and the working environment is very poor. You can imagine: in the winter of minus 20 or 30 degrees, lying on the ground full of ice and snow to change the clutch pieces, repair the gearbox, repair the drive shaft, what is it like? In the summer temperature of more than 30 degrees, what is it like to lie on the engine at 70 or 80 degrees to change the oil, change the belt, repair the oil leakage and leak the water and leak? In the extremely cold winter, the truck can't catch fire, the car crawls around, touches the cold parts to find faults, and the cold diesel oil flows on the hands. What is it like to repair a car on the ground full of water, sand and rubble? If you haven't experienced it, you should be secretly glad that this kind of suffering is really not something that ordinary people can eat.
What is more unbearable than physical suffering is the suffering of the heart. In the enterprise, almost no one can look up to the car repairman, they do not think that this is a technical work, but think that this is a coolie, their technical value can not be recognized and reflected, let alone due respect. In our factory, the big car repairman was rated as the "worst kind of work", and there was no one, and the most powerful means for the leader to clean up the worker was to "let him do the repairman". At a symposium, I directly confronted the company's leaders: take any position in this enterprise to exchange with the repairman, the repairman is willing, does this not explain the problem?
2. Dirty
With a little bit of ash on our clothes, we said the clothes were dirty. But for the big car mechanic, it's not a problem at all. The working environment of the big car is not good, the car is muddy water and oil pollution, etc., even if the simplest fault is handled, the car goes down and down the car, the clothes are dirty, not to mention repairing the complex faults such as oil leakage and water leakage under the car. The repairman's clothes are wrapped in a thick layer of oil, and there is always oil on his hands and face that cannot be wiped clean. Working under the car, all kinds of dust, sludge, etc. fall onto the body of the repairman and fall into the clothes, so the repairman has to change clothes from the inside out every day, including the shirt and shorts inside. In the words of a teacher, every day after doing work, except for the birds, all other parts are dirty. How many young people can accept such a working environment?
3. Tired
All kinds of parts of the big car are very large, a tire hundreds of pounds, a wheel hub of more than a hundred pounds, the engine weighs nearly a ton, the gearbox hundreds of kilograms, dozens of pounds of parts are light, all kinds of installation screws are also very large, whether disassembly or tight need a lot of strength, so repairing the big car is really a force work, disassembly, assembly, handling need a lot of strength. In particular, some very heavy parts, installed in narrow corners, require a person to half squat in it, disassemble it in a very strange posture and then install it, which is simply the ultimate squeeze on human physical strength. If this kind of work is done for a long time, the physical damage is very large, and almost all the car repair workers have diseases such as waist loss and lumbar muscle strain, and almost all the hands are cracks and extremely rough, which are the side effects of dry truck repairmen. When I was working as a repairman, I changed clutch pieces, repaired transmissions, repaired rear bridges, etc. for several days in a row, and I was so tired that I didn't want to eat every day, my back was sore and my legs were cramped, and I went home to sleep. In this kind of labor intensity, the proportion of physical strength is more than physical strength, which young man can bear it?
4. Insurance
The working environment of the repair vehicle is not good, often in the field operation, various maintenance equipment is not complete, and the safety facilities are insufficient. In addition, the weight of the parts of the big car is large, the disassembly is difficult, and the height of the body is large, so the car repairman is easily injured. I am a state-owned enterprise with a formal safety management system and complete safety facilities, and repairmen have the right to refuse unsafe operations. Even so, there have been many accidents seen with their own eyes in the team's more than two decades. The worst one fell out of the car, injured his head, became half-spirited and half-stupid, and died a few years later. There were also two who fell out of the car without serious consequences, and there were fingers that were broken, toes that were broken, arms that were broken, and countless other skin injuries, basically minor injuries that could not be in the line of fire. If it is in a private enterprise, illegal operations and risky operations are commonplace, and there are more injuries. If you think about it, now that every child is a treasure, who can be willing to let their children do such a dangerous job?
Therefore, "bitter and dirty" is the truest portrayal of the truck repairman. Although the income is higher, it is limited to large-scale workers. The salary of a small worker is relatively low, and the cultivation cycle of a repairman is relatively long, as little as three or five years, more than ten years, to survive a long low-wage cycle, in the middle of which you also have to constantly learn new knowledge, new skills, test your patience and learning ability. You say, in today's social environment, what young person would be willing to do such a job? They would rather go out to deliver takeaways and couriers, and although their income is lower, the advantages are free time, clean and hygienic, safe and reliable. Therefore, in the next few years, the car repairman will definitely break the gear, and there will be a large number of trucks that are not repaired. This situation is not likely to be alleviated until this society can give the big car repairman enough respect and value recognition.