r/nextfuckinglevel 17h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/Omernon 15h ago

I live in Poland and near my place there's this small company where they do this sort of modifications. It costs around $10-20k to modify a van. Maybe not to the same really high standard that was shown in the video, but it definetly is cheaper than buying RV and makes me want to save up to get one as well. Of course you need to account the price of the vehicle but used one will be a lot cheaper.

Anyway, looking at this video I can see it wasn't their first rodeo. People with the right skills and their own company do make a lot of cash. I just paid $10k to a guy that renovated my house. Three week job and he is now doing another renovation for someone else. And I know he won't pay taxes as I handed it to him in cash :>

Maybe that kind of money is nothing special in the US, but in Poland this is plenty. You need to be top IT specialist to even get close to the amount of money the self-employed tiler-plumber-electrician makes. Unless you want to be a doctor it doesn't even makes sense anymore to go to university if money is what you are after. I'm a manager in a gamedev company and sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better off continuing my wood working hobby I had years ago and becoming a carpenter.

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u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord 15h ago

It's much cheaper to find a friend with one and ask him to use it occasionally

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 3h ago

as long as you slip him a few hundies and a case of beer every time

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u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord 3h ago

And a full tank of gas :)

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 3h ago

naturally, wouldn't be a friend otherwise