Personal Essay On Automotive Mechanics

At first, I never thought me being good at something would get me in so much trouble. Doing the things you are good at can be dangerous and mess you up big time on whatever other things you are good at. 
  This was basically me on my freshman year of high school, I was so hooked into auto mechanics that I was losing track of everything that was going around me. I was spending so much time everyday working outside in cars, that I almost didn’t have time at all to do school related work or things that I was responsible for.  
   That’s exactly what I like the most of automotive mechanics, when I start to work on a car, you basically forget about everything that is going around you; you are in your own world. However, I had to learn this the

hard way, I went down by a 50% on my first semester grades, and I almost lost my job for not being there on time.  I had a really hard trying to get up the rest of that school year.  
   Being able to spend time on the things I like to work on, and to spend time with family members, is a huge reason why automotive mechanics fit me perfectly; this is the only way I get to spend quality time with my dad.

That really means a lot for me.  

  Last year my grandmother passed away. It was not easy having to digest something that big, having to say goodbye to someone who had been around you for the most part of your life.  When things like this happen, your life changes drastically, and your perspective of life is much different. Here’s when you start to question yourself if you should keep on going or not.  As to be expected I fell into a somewhat deep depression, and things just didn’t look like they did before. 
   Such event made a lot of things change, school, work, family, and the perspective on how things were supposed to be in life. However, there was a huge turning point that made things a bit better. My dad bought me a 1996 SN95 mustang v6. This was a huge thing for me because I’m a huge mustang fan. 
   Having such an old car meant that, it needed some work; and that was basically the best part of it. Being able to work on a car, doing the things I like to do the most, was really helpful back at that time, to make me forget about all the crazy events that were

happening. 

  Weeks passed, the mustang started to look good, and my depression was pretty much gone. I then realized, how big of an impact auto mechanics makes in my life.   
 This is exactly what I’m looking for, I’m looking for a career that makes an impact in my own personal life, a career Which I can enjoy going to work and that makes my life better.  
  Automotive mechanics have done a lot for me at this point, such as making me more responsible when managing the things, I’m responsible for, improving my relationship with my dad, and also to give me motivation to continue on in life whenever things start to get ugly. 
  The automotive world has done things for me that I never thought a hobby would offer, having in mind how little I have been involved in the three years I have been working on cars; I can’t imagine how drastically my life could change if I get to work on cars the rest of my life.