Once in a blue moon you will run across someone with who went to a trade school and stayed in the trade,,, and done quite well... I went to the local tinker teck 3 weeks and walked out... We did the same thing for 2 weeks,,, I was not their to get GI joe money are a minority milk'n if for all I could get...
I do not know of a school that's accelerated and can go thru the basic in a year,,, most are a two year deal BUT hand out a useless degree... Its all about take'n daddy's money...
I have know some good dealer wrenches that made over 100K a year at a new car dealer,,, They both now have their own shop ,,,wonder why,,, they were top gun's that had the right stuff (a rare breed)...
Wranching is production work so how in their right mind is will'n to put it all on the line when their are better jobs out their...
The top gun at the local GM dealer clicks over 80K a year,,, he's a hustler (a rare breed)... I am told he's not the best wrench their,,, the best makes 60K that's slower but never a come back...
at most dealers the shop supports the whole show,,, commission for the top guns is around $25 a hour so if you hang a set of pads on in a hour and the job pays 3 that's $75.... It the job pays a hour and it takes you 3 it figgers @ 8.34 a hour... This is were the new guy takes a lick'n,,, the top guns get the gravy and leaves the bones to the new guy... Their once were plenty of new guys fresh out of the local tinker teck that were told they would make 100K a year wranching,,, what a crock of bull,,, it was all to get daddy's money...
I once set on the local tinker teck board,,, my recommendation was to evaluate the student and if he did not have the rite stuff point him a direction were he could make it in the real world,,, their was a service writer for a local dealer that was only interested in a new batch of new guys to use them as slave labor... I walkd out and never went back...
The local tinker teck had one the smartest mechanics I have ever know as a teacher,,, he would fail a student in a hart beat,,, they fired him cuzz he did not allow students to stand around with their thumb up their arse... He was the blame for the low turn out rate,,, He told me each student was worth $1800 a year in government funding so it was talboo to fail one...
He had the highest success rate of students that went into the trade and stayed in it for 2 years
The problem is qualified students,,, its no different than out school systems,,, throw the qualified in with the the un-qualified and you dumm down the qualified...
So for y'all collage grad's,,, you either got it are you were sent pack'n rite.. Until we get some kind of higher school'n at the entry level are some kind of real certification across the board we will have to look for that one in a million top gun...
When I started out 9 hr. days were standard and a haft a day on Saturday,,, you were paid based on a weeks work,,, hours were never talked about... You worked for the company store..
Lets classify a so called mechanic, A, B , C
A) you hand him the work order he completes the job (most any job)with no help.
B ) same as a A but not quite their yet
C) needs directions (show and tell) un-able to complete a complicated task ( you have to point to the oil plug on a oil change) He has a 2 year degree ,,, finger smells like chit...
In most professions you figger to make more each year till you retire (experience),,, not so in the wranching trade,, unless you are a top gun your pay will decline as you age (you hit a wall around 50/55,,, its simple you can not turn out the work you use to... Balls to the wall takes it toll...
You retire and have nuttin to show for it and your tools are worth scrap value... But you can fix yer on chit...
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