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CapLock
10-06-2013, 08:17
For those of you who know first hand is Colorado School of Trades in Lakewood worth the money?
I'm ready for something different.

15 after 8 and looks like I'm building a house by myself today.....
BPTactical
10-06-2013, 08:37
CST is NOT the school it once was. A few years ago they lost their main instructor after some "reorganization" and it is nowhere near what it used to be.
I worked at a shop that was frequented by their students. They were real easy to spot and the majority I wouldn't let fix a tricycle with a rubber hammer.
They are just a smidge above the nursing and vet tech schools you see advertised on the Jerry Springer show.
If you want to do it, do it right and go to Trinidad, Murray, Lassen or Yavapai.
tmleadr03
10-06-2013, 08:56
Most trade schools are there to make money for the trade school, teaching the students is so far down the list of things they do it doesn't register on the top ten.
BPTactical
10-06-2013, 08:59
Most trade schools are there to make money for the trade school, teaching the students is so far down the list of things they do it doesn't register on the top ten.

Very well put tmleadr03.
A buddy of mine likened them to "certificate puppy mills"
tmleadr03
10-06-2013, 09:53
Very well put tmleadr03.
A buddy of mine likened them to "certificate puppy mills"

After the first of the year if business keeps growing like it is for me I am going to need to hire an apprentice. I could go with a full on tech, but then I have to fight with them about how to do the work since they will most likely have habits that I am not fond of. What I really want is someone just starting out in the business who doesn't know a box end for an open end but wants to learn. Then I teach him MY bad habits before they learn their own. I have toyed with the idea of catching one of the tech school students in their first month of school and hiring them part time to be my shop bitch, work them slowly into simple stuff like brakes and oil changes till they graduate when they can work as a high apprentice or low journeyman technician. But considering the quality of the education I see in those tech schools I might as well hire a bum off the street.

Letting someone work on cars that go out with my name on them is not something I really look forward to.
CapLock
10-07-2013, 20:26
Damn I thought you were talking about working on guns. I was about to volunteer part time for nothing as long as you were teaching.