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As an aside, my parents never owned a vehicle less than a decade old, and my dad spent his vacation weeks working on them.
Instead of advancing beyond frozen food clerk, which is meant as a more entry level job to the workforce, he hoarded broken things and spent time off tinkering with them.
The job had perks for a 30+ year employee, like 5 weeks of paid vacation. He'd spend 1 of those weeks every year driving the family in a hooptie vehicle down to CA to visit family. Occasionally we'd break down, and have to replace an alternator enroute (after spending a hot afternoon in a rest area).
I'm very fortunate to have such a good father, but he never leveraged his skill potential in the labor market and distracted himself by tinkering on projects with varying levels of importance... the apple didn't fall far.
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