According to the Department of Transportation, there are more than 225 million registered automobiles and roughly 840,000 auto technician/mechanic jobs in the United States, according to the ...

In three years, the auto service industry will be 400,000 service technicians short of what's needed to fix cars.

But you might soon realize that accepting a lower-paying job isn't going to cut it on a long-term basis. If you're 19 years old working as an auto mechanic, you may be making a decent wage ...