The Women Who Tell MotorTrend's Stories: Faye Hadley

As part of Women's History Month, each week you'll hear from one of the women who tellMany of us who have chosen a career in the trades are hands-on learners, so whenever someone asks me for advice on how to get started in the automotive trades, I tell them:"Get a project car! The crappier the better!" It's the perfect learning tool. In fact, the early years of my own automotive education were spent trying to get my beloved VW Rabbit up and running.

At this point, though, I had fallen quite out of love with academia. I felt lost and miserable, deeply misunderstood by my peers and faculty. I had recently read the nonfiction book, and despite its tragic ending, the idea of a solo road trip began calling to me. So I dropped all of my classes, emptied my savings account to buy an old GTI, and embarked on a cross-country road trip.

It was around that time I sold my GTI to buy a genuine piece of junk that a club member helped me find: a VW Rabbit with a 1.5 non-turbo diesel engine. She was a total lemon, but with the help of the alternative fuels club, I converted it to run on waste vegetable oil. It was my first big automotive engineering project, and the hands-on creative problem-solving left me feeling more inspired, invigorated, and generally fulfilled than I'd felt in years. Perhaps ever.

That year, I somehow caught the attention of local"veedubbers" on VW Vortex, an online VW community forum. I can't say for sure what drew them to me, but perhaps it was the billowing black smoke and smell of fried vegetable grease wherever I went. I frequented the forum, and when I saw a post in the"Spotted" thread about a girl driving a white four-door Mk1 Rabbit, I immediately jumped in and introduced myself.

In the meantime, despite the great pay and a supportive boss, I was swiftly falling out of love with my day job. I felt a sense of imposter syndrome every morning when I walked through the clinic door, and a wave of relief would hit me when I could finally change out of my stuffy pantsuit at Jesse's shop in the evening. But despite my growing distaste for my work as a therapist, I continued to stick with it. After all, this was the job I had earned my degree for.

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