Since the invention of the automobile, the world has been spinning a lot easier. Automotive jobs for the auto tech are endless because no car manufacturer will ever be one-hundred percent perfect. The duties of an automotive technician or mechanic may include but are not limited to fixing a check engine light, airbag sensors, tire changes, and changing the oil on vehicles. Being an auto mechanic or technician is not an easy thing to do because you often work weekends, weeknight, long hours, cold days and nights because the shop door must be somewhat open during work hours. To become a automotive technician you must go to school for at least two years to get your associates degree, to get hired into a small shop. So if you’ve been interested in automobiles this might be a career you might want to look at. Before the introduction of automobile, the only means of transportation around was horses, ships, horse-drawn carriages, trains, and walking from point A to point B. When the automobile came about in the beginning of the twentieth century, production was very slow. The reason for that was because very few people were purchasing cars. Not a lot of people were buying cars because of the price tag on them. According to a WordPress article, if the people that had cars wanted to maintain a car, they look for specialists like bicycle mechanics, machinists, blacksmiths, or even plumbers to make new parts. Reason being, the small car companies hadn’t started to make parts. A few years later, the Ford Motor Corporation perfected the process of mass production. That was very useful because World War I had just broke out. By 1915, Ford was selling half a million cars a year because most of them were being used in World War I. Between 1919 and 1920, war surplus trucks started being produced on the market. The Ford Model T was the number one selling automobile according to the Ford.com website. With this many cars being produced Ford made a wise decision to start making interchangeable parts for the vehicle