Aspiring mechanics

Your way into the trade.

No trade school required, no gatekeeping, no knowing a guy. Upload your resume — or just a list of what you’ve fixed — once, and every shop in the network can find you.

One upload · Fourteen shops looking · Every level welcome

The path

Four steps, no side doors.

The same route for everyone — whether you grew up under a hood or you’ve never held a torque wrench.

Upload your resume

Or skip it and list what you’ve fixed. Bikes, mowers, your cousin’s Corolla — it all counts here.

Shops browse the board

Every crew in the network flips through the same wall of cards. Yours sits next to everyone else’s, same size.

Interview where you match

Shops reach out when your languages and your neighborhood line up with their counter. You talk to crews you can actually get to.

Apprentice with a real crew

Start paid, start supervised, start learning right. The score over the door tells you how they treat people.


Get on the board

One card. Every shop.

Tell us what you want to wrench on and where you live. Shops come to you — you never cold-call a counter again.

Prefer the full application? Upload your resume.

What do you want to work on?

Shops see your card. Your contact info stays private until you say yes.

Openings on the board

Who’s hiring tonight.

Pulled from the highest-scoring shops in the network. When the crosswalk’s bright, the crew treats its people right — customers and apprentices alike.


Why this trade

Good work, close to home.

Paid to learn

An apprenticeship isn’t tuition — it’s a job. You earn a wage from your first shift, and every skill you pick up stays yours.

Every neighborhood needs you

Cars break down on every block in the city. A good mechanic never has to leave their own neighborhood to find work — the work comes to them.

EVs need new hands

High-voltage systems are new to thirty-year veterans too. This is the rare moment when a newcomer starts close to even.

I sent in a list of everything I’d fixed — a mower, two bikes, my tía’s window motor. Three shops called that week. Nobody asked for a diploma.
Nayeli · first-year apprentice, Columbia City Auto Care

Shift starts soon

The bay door is open.

The crews on the board are hiring right now. Go see who they are, what they fix, and how they score.

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