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>>7507

Grats bro, hope it all works out for you. Life threw me a curveball in uni too. I managed to get a 2:2 hons degree still, but a 1 or a 2:1 would've been much more useful to me. It's better than failing I guess huh.

I think I'll take your advice. All my gut feelings, and a few of my old mechanofag friends, are saying the same thing. You'll be on your back, in the cold, repairing cars for not much money at all. The novelty will wear off quick, and you won't take pleasure in it any more. You'll want out very quickly.

>>7509

For real, but you gotta think hard about what you want to do for the rest of your life.

There's no money in being a greasemonkey. You only start making money when you open your own shop and have other kids do the work for you, and you manage the work.

I suppose that's true for any field of work. But the starting wages of some jobs are much higher.

I think I'll go with software development. I also enjoy games development. I plan on making a small mobile game with a keen friend of mine, and if something like that actually gets some attention, we could be earning big. Very big.

Vidya motoring photography thread?

Share your shit, guys! Looks like the careers discussion is over…

>>7516

tru

I think it's just a matter of getting a job that isn't gonna do your back in.

>>7560

I love games design. I live in London.

I'm hoping I can actually find my way into some part of games development. That's where my love for computers lies.

Toyota salesman. Easiest job I've ever had and it's super enjoyable in almost every way except for appraising trade-ins. Everyone thinks their mobile fruit fly farm is "in excellent condition".

I am a student of automotive engineering.

It fucking sucks, I want to quit. There's no glory in becoming an engineer, you just generate profits for the corporations and that's it - slave waging at a higher level.

I just want to fucking drive, work on my car and then drive more. But being a poorfag student, I don't have any money for a place to work my car on, I have no tools and even spare parts are too expensive.

My car is in miserable condition and it hurts my soul that I can't do anything and repair it. Driving my car became a bitterweet experience lately - I'm happy that it still runs, but I see all the lack of maintenance and it makes me very sad.

I hate this shitty university thing and I won't become an engineer for some shitty corporation afterwards anyway so I think about quitting now.

Unfortunately I'm clueless about what work I should be getting in that case. I don't have any qualifications.

Fuck, I just want to live self-sufficiently and hang out at my garage and work on cars for fun, then drive them around and meet my friends in the evenings. But you also need money for that because money rules the fucking world. Holy shit, I hate this system, I just want to drive - Is that too much to ask for?

Pic so fucking related

>>7584

>be me

>poorfag student living at home, planning on majoring in business

>also just want to drive around, work on my car, and get some really nice cars to collect, like the E92 M3 and 911 GT3 RS 4.0

I know the feel man. If I were you I'd switch to a major you'd enjoy more - or, perhaps become a mechanic and work on other people's cars for money?

It does suck that money rules the world - I just want my German supercars and live quietly too ;-;

>>7586

At least you live at home, I have to go working so I can pay the shitty rent, it fucking sucks. But even if I'd live at home, my dad wouldn't allow me to work my car there.

>911 GT3

Nice choice, I'd love to drive this one.

>If I were you I'd switch to a major you'd enjoy more

There's no subject that seems to be more interesting to me.

>- or, perhaps become a mechanic and work on other people's cars for money?

Like some other guy ITT already said, being a mechanic is a really unrewarding work + you get tired of it. A friend of mine started to learn the trade though, I hope he gets his own shop as soon as possible.

>It does suck that money rules the world

Yeah, I even started to dislike all the new cars that get released. They're part of the problem - shitty consumerist plastic boxes for the masses, so people can drive to work and earn more money for the next car.

10 year lifetime bullshit standards and quality norms straight from the happy merchants. I fucking hate the car industry for their smartphone-esque business strategies.

>>7587

>you could always open up your own shop

Nope, I can't. Having an automotive engineering degree apparently doesn't qualify me to work on cars. Such is the law around here.

>make your own aftermarket parts business with an engineering degree

I considered that. Seems like a good idea, but I'd need a capital for that - I'm already in debt for receiving a student loan, so I'll have to pay that back first. That's even more wasted lifetime. Until I had my own business, I'd be like 30 years old - I can't handle this feel.

>does anyone know of a good automotive book that can go over a lot of the basic systems in a car for a good foundation?

How deep do you want to go though? You can read all the very basic stuff straight on the internet.

I think I'm going to train and get qualified to be a mechanic. Will start from there. Branch out, maybe specialize in ECUs (I have the computer science degree) or something else.

I really don't know how feasible it would be to make software development my career. I don't know what the job will be like, or if I can do it for any real length of time.

>>7587

Literally dude, just read Haynes workshop manuals for all sorts of cars. That's how I do it.

>>7594

If you parked the Subaru frontwards in the third image, you'd have an almost exact re-enactment of this:

>>7597

>>7623

Holy shit that is awesome.

>>7624

heheh

This one I took in GT5 years ago. See if you can find the real image.

>>7629

Second result for "Autobacs NSX", unless this is based off a different photo.

You've sure got an eye for detail, I'll give you that. Want to try making a GT version of my second pic? The car and track are there, the only major difference between the two pictures will be the Marlboro sponsors on the car.

>>7630

Unfortunately I only have half the credits needed to buy the F2007 in that colour and I can't sell either of my existing F2007s so…

>>7672

Yep, long time ago. I once remember doing the full 24 hour Nurburgring back in the day, then in GT5 I did the 24 hour of Le Mans. Too bad they removed endurance races in GT6.

http://8ch.net/v/res/7476178.html

Posting some pictures from Street Legal Racing Redline, a shovelware tier Activision title where you take shitboxes or car frames and turn them into race cars by changing out quarterpanels and body parts and performance wise down to springs and dampers, oil pans and piston heads. Could have been better if it was given time to be polished.

>>7677

Nurburgring on GT4 was so alien to me. I couldn't wrap my head round it.

I suppose somewhere between GT4 and GT5 I grew up. Completed GT5 and GT6 100% and play the latest gran turismo with steering wheel just to pass time and have fun