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I used to be a bike mech at Halfords. I only had experience of working on my own bikes, and I wasn't particularly into bikes at the time either. They might have toughened up since then though, it was a few years ago.
I got along fine though. Within a month I was the best bike mechanic in the store. All I did was read the Haynes Bike Book and Sheldon Brown cover-to-cover. Not hard to stand out there.