What Age for VW dealer tech to retire???

Age varies between individuals when being a problem, but 2 different but related body movements seem to be common. Impact and repetitive motions affecting joints. People can adjust to these by doing less of these if not a continuous requirement of the job.

That's where one can make the adjustment by doing less of the two motions repetively.

Over time, the cost of health care is usually more expensive that maintaining some semblance of the way of living the person is used to.

Only due to demands by such jobs, and not going to something less strenuous, or making those adjustments within the job description.

It varies between the individual, their activities, their lifelong impact and repetive motions affecting joints, ligaments, and muscles.

Unrelated. He did alot but wasn't terribly physically active. When he did the KFC franchise shortly later after 65, it was more of a supervisory capacity than active participation.

You don't have to "make it big" to be physically capable and successful in life. Just know your limits, and how those limits are due to your activity prior to reaching an age where your activity may be limited. Your body has lifelong expectations of use, don't burn it up too soon. The vast majority never "make it big", yet, that isn't a factor in the latter part of life except for the unlearned of life few. These are the afraid, fearful, scared of living people. Don't think it was a VW retired tech in your example... Nor the big headed native Kentuckian who pursued his dreams...

My brother is in his mid 50's. He has worked as a mechanic most of his adult life. He finally moved out to Colorado where he can fish in the morning if he wants. He has needed to move there for 30 years.The place will probably help him lose weight. Ijust don't see many big people out in the area he moved to. Yes he has next to nothing but a lot of tools, some fishing poles and some hunting rifles. I don't think his body is in that bad of shape.

I remember the days when you could switch from one dealer to another because of your good reputation and the new dealer would accept your 100K salary and you could cherry pick your jobs. Now times have changed and you are correct about the "starvation wages".

Most dealers like Ford make lots of cash with the usual Ford truck breakdown jobs. Ball Joints, brakes, etc. Sometimes they make more profit than sales. Toyota on the other hand sell over 100 vehicles a month so their profit is way better than the service dept.