BrettC

Hi All

I was just wondering if there are any other professions out there were you were seen as being a bit of a misfit for enjoying cars or being accused as being a 'boy racer'?

As a scientist I have studied at a variety of different unis and worked in commercial and academic settings yet I have experienced this everywhere I have gone. None of it has been particularly nasty and some of it I'm sure have just been to wind me up but there is an element out there which consider you a real boy racer if you so much as mention an aftermarket ECU, SS exhaust or anything along those lines.

Or are they right???

Tiggs

prob easier to name jobs where its considered normal:

Halfords
McDonalds

errrrr.....thats prob it!

BrettC

fair point.

New_scooby_04

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I'm a Post Doc at a london University and find that many academics just don't view cars as a hobby or something to be enjoyed- they are "something to get you from A to B" and that's it! Often, it's simply because they've not been exposed to a performance car owned by an enthusiast. I took some colleagues for a spin a while ago, and they can back giggling like schoolgirls and remarking on how differently it performed from normal cars and how nice it looked and sounded.

I don't think I quite managed to convert them; they prefer to spend their money on booze and pizza (once a student, always a student)!! However, whenever I see them they always ask:

"How's Scooby?"

Ns04

silverscoobydan

I am a teacher. The vast majority of other staff has no idea why I spend time and money on my car. (They are too busy driving mk2 fiesta's wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow pads hee hee hee). The headmaster has called me a boy racer in front of the students!!!!!

The students generally like the fact I am into cars. I frequently use them as examples in my teaching (Design Technology teacher) so they can appreciate my enthusiasm.

But you either ‘get’ cars or you don’t.

Dan

Iain Young

It's accepted where I work (I'm a software developer), but I have got some funny looks from people in the various orchestras that I play in

Daniel-S

Can't imagine life without them really

BrettC

Yep, completely relate to that!

Silverscoobydan: I too have been introduced as a boy racer. I had a saab 9000 at the time!! . This made me laugh.

*Jen*

It's always interesting in Road Safety and Traffic Management!! lol!

I love turning up to site meetings with the Scoob burrbling away. Luckily most of the Police I work with also have an aprieciation for nice vehicles

_Meridian_

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Another scientist here. Only one (female) colleague has any interest in cars and modifying them. One male colleagues once said that he didn't see why any car needed more than two hundred horse-power.

But I get much more stick for being a computer nerd as well...


M

Drunken Bungle Whore

You think being classed as a 'boy racer' is odd - try being classed as a 'girl racer'! I work for a large firm of solicitors, so appreciation of nice cars goes with the turf - but usually only for the blokes!

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I work in the courier industry and it is surprisingly rare to come across other petrol heads bike or car

I'm definately the exception rather than the rule which is odd considering the amount of time that people spend interacting with motor vehicles in some way or another.

DaveD

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When I was working in Derby, developing / testing Jet engines, it was almost compulsary to have an interest in cars and/or bikes - even the women too!

If two of us had to go to the outdoor test bed 20 miles away, we'd always take the Scoob!

AudiLover

Its because you work along side geeks who get thrills from paying their rent a day late.

Stephen Pope

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor. Spend most of my lunchtimes surfing the Scoobynet and Peugeot205GTI forum whilst the rest of the guys check out their fantasy football stuff! That said, one of my colleagues has a CTR and another a new Atra VXR!! When I take one of the graduate surveyors out in the car, 'the boy' as we call him, he grins from ear to ear when I floor it and he has a Scooby screen saver. The associates and direcors think I am a sad b@stard!!

Fuzz

Even I can see why the courier industry is short of "enthusiasts" Simon.....

They've all been banned.

Andy

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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WTF is Simon?

Fuzz

Must be mixing you up with someone else then.

Ahh..... was thinking of Jolly green Monster

Andy

tyresqueal

I went to a private school, uni and work in Human Resources, which means I should be a complete w***** and drive a boring car (wouldn't want to offend by naming names, cough mundano). However I drive a wrx classic with the 5zigen juggernaut swallowing exhaust, 17" gold rims and a few other choice mods.

To me it's all about what I enjoy and top of the agenda for me is A to B with the most fun in between!

I had a job for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for a while and at first dreaded taking my very unfriendly scoob to work, but it soon transpired that most of my colleagues loved the deep warble from the car and my department used to laugh amongst each other as they heard me arrive in the morning!

Fuzz

you sure they wern't laughing at you?

Andy

Simon C

Well IT certianly has its fair share of petrol heads. In works car park, there is an RX8, 2 Scoobs (1 classic, 1 MY06) and 2 GT4's

The place I got my first real job after uni, they were a boring bunch. Had a couple of bikers but I was the only 1 with a performance ish car (205 gti)

Jolly Green Monster

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How long have you been doing that for Fuzz?

lmfao!

Fuzz

Puff the magic dragon was green and a sort of monster wasn't he.

Andy

JAKbauer24

don't worry about it fella i get it all the time im a chef and as soon as i mention anything to do with cars weather its a meet or a oil change 2-3 of the lads do this to interupt me............... "cars cars cars cars cars cars cars" over and over again but if someone cannot get why we spend all day and night with cars on our minds then **** em its there loss for being simple minded and not understanding our passion

Suresh

There are plenty of petrolheads in banking. Our staff car park has one Maser, a smattering of Porsches a couple of M BMs a blob-eye and best of all ... my Forester Turbo

Miss Kinky

you should try being female and a car enthusiast...

typical conversion

Them: is that your car?

Me: Yes

Them: who does all the work on it

Me: I do

Them: really....?

Me: Yes!!!!

Yes I do work on my car!!

sociopath

In my experience b(w?)ankers aren't petrol heads. They are like footballers. Their cars are "look at me, I'm considerably richer than yow" fashion accessories, nothing more than big metal designer handbags.

They know precious little about their cars other than the rudimentary 'top trump' stats which they use to argue whose is more expensive. Pathetic.

skoobidude

I feel exactly the same way about football. I don't understand all the fuss and passion people have in this sport, but hey I guess I'm in the minority...

I'll close the door on my way out!


Nick
Devoted Petrol head