Hit 50,000 brake jobs today according to my records. That number caught me off guard.

I keep a little notebook in my toolbox, just a habit from my first mentor. Every brake job I do, I mark it down. Yesterday I flipped back through and counted. 50,013 to be exact. I started in 1995 in a little shop outside of Nashville. Never thought I would do that many. It made me think about all the different cars, the rusted bolts, the come backs. What milestone numbers have you guys hit that surprised you?

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schmidt.blake4d ago

Nashville is actually about 200 miles from me, so close enough in my book. But 50,000 brake jobs is wild, I'd have to buy a new notebook every 10 years to keep that record.

green.jenny4d ago

Man, that's the kind of number that really makes you stop and think, doesn't it? @schmidt.blake I hear you on the notebook situation, I actually switched to a spiral bound index card system years ago so each year is just one little stack. You gotta have a system for tracking those comebacks too, I started marking a little "C" next to any job that had to be redone so I could spot patterns in certain car models. That's been way more valuable than just the raw count over the years.