colorado school of trades

[BPTactical]

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]

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.