Good automotive related job

Well I am finally able to break the news to the GRM community that I have finally been offered a job by Volkswagen. I applied for a production position at VW a year and two months ago; I completed the process and received a conditional job offer last febuary. I received the call back last thursday and I start january 3rd. I will be in the final assembly portion of production. This is the first factory job I have had I have been working in restaurants for my entire working career. I practically begged them to hire me in the interview based on what a huge car guy I am I totatally forgot to mention what a hard and reliable worker I am. Either way I am not a regular poster but I thought ya'll might be interested in my news. I amy now finally be able to afford something other than a crappy ragged out daily driver since I just got a 50 percent raise.

Congrats!

Conga rats!

Merry Christmas to you!

Way to go!

Now just make sure you're parts go on better than whoever put parts on my old golf - trim used to regularly fall off (mezican-built one)

Good job on the job hunting!

Das good!

Wow, that's a long time span... what's your security clearance now?

Good luck!

cool beans

byron12 wrote: I amy now finally be able to afford something other than a crappy ragged out daily driver since I just got a 50 percent raise.

Congratulations!

Now, before you go spend the paychecks you don't have yet, figure out how to make that POS beater last another year, and stack the money you're willing to spend on a car payment in an account that you don't ever touch for anything else ever. the longer you suffer with that POS beater -- unless it's unreliability causes you to lose your job -- the more $ you'll have when it's actually time to buy a car. buy something at the bottom of its depreciation curve, and drive it until it too is a worn out POS. All the time, keep making that car payment to yourself. then when the newish car is worn out, you've got a big stack of cash and can go buy the next ride. once again, buy something at the bottom of its depreciation curve, and drive it into the earth.

if you can squeeze another year out of the POS, at $300/mo you're looking at $3600 cash you can spend. that'll usually buy you a car that's advertised at $4500 OBO, cause sellers love cash. so now you're in an early E36 or a miata with a hardtop or something else that's cool and reliable and gets decent mileage.

now imagine the new ride lasts 4 years, and all the time you drive it you're stacking $300/mo in your car fund. BAM! that's $14,400 you've got available to replace the car from the paragraph above. spend $10k and now you're in a friggin' E46, E39, maybe a WRX or something else you like. Oh, and you've still got $4400 in the car fund.

dig it: in one year of suffering you saved enough to pay cash for a decent car. in another four years you saved enough to pay cash for a pretty sweet car and you've still got cash for rims, stereo, whatever. this is only five years from today.

or, don't spend that $4400. keep stacking $300/mo on top of that $4400, drive that pretty sweet car for five years, and now you've got teh $4400 nest-egg plus EIGHTEEN GRAND that you've saved over the 5 years.

hmmm, what could you buy for $22,400?

I here theres quite the black market for lower control arms and coils. If you could figure a way to smuggle a few of those out everyday you would be rich!

Of course I'm just kidding (or am I).