yes and yes. Except i still am a technician, just no longer with Honda, but with a local transit company that seems to be in the news for all the wrong reasons lately.
Funny enough, about a month or 2 after i started, another guy from a different Honda dealer started too. Now we hang out together.
Lots of pluses and a few minuses to our new careers, but we both agree, we're in way better positions now