I love how you said 'don't' to the smoking but completely overlooked the cocaine suggestion lmao
I don't have a job quite yet because of treatment/recovery/rona but I have a certificate in animal care sitting there that will hopefully net me something in the respective industry
honestly for a while I was tossing up mechanic work and working with animals, arrived at the conclusion that it'd be a shitty career considering the course is like 20k for the baseline certificates and the wage is dog shit unless you have a shitton of experience and get in somewhere good, plus I think it'd just take the passion of cars out of me because I'd just be doing nothing but maintenance work most of the time
for a while I juggled the idea of becoming a dog trainer, gave up on that because i realised dog training is 90% training the OWNER to train the dog and I really don't see me having enough patience to teach people like that
overall I'd really love to work with reptiles or something like that but it isn't really that feasible given my location (aka the nearest wildlife sanctuary is ages away and i can't drive that far every day)
think the plan right now is to use my certificate to get into a general pet store sorta deal given that's what they're best for and i figure some opportunities will arise out of that
i'm still going to do my best to self-teach a lot of shit about cars which i've been doing for the past few years, next step is to get a junker i can try to fix/tear apart and that'll provide me with extremely valuable knowledge - maybe one day i could look into working with a smaller drag racing/drifting/track team and they'd take me under their wing if i had enough baseline knowledge for them to teach me off of