Attending School

I am 21 finally figuring out what I want to do with my life. To bad it came this late but I should be glad it came at all. I have reallized this past year that I want to work on cars the rest of my life. I have always had an intrest in them and now want to aply that intrest into something more. I went to a year of college right out of highschool and didn't like it much, college just isn't for me. Having to deal with all that bull that i'll never use the rest of my life just made me mad. Now I want to attend Wyotech and get my street rod and custom fabrication with collision/refinshing diploma. I have already enrolled and am ready to strat school in october in Laramie, WY. I am having second thoughts about if I have made the right choise or not. I have always had an interest in cars but never actually worked on any. I don't have much knowledge about how they work. In the past I didn't have any connections with people or the know how to actually \rip one apart and put it back together. I know if I go to school there I will be at my best and try my hardest at everything I encounter but it still is not enough for me. I just want to know if I am making the right decission or not. Is this the right school for me if I am going to go into it with little to know knowledge of cars. 9 months seems like an awful short time to learn a crap load of stuff. Please someone give me some advice as to what I am doing here. 20 some thoughsand dollars is a lot to waste.

I look foward to your input, Thanks a bunch.

It's a good school, the son of a friend of mine went there and is doing quite well now working full time at a body shop and part time at home getting a restoration business started.

Like any other school, you will only get as much out of it as you put into it. A diploma is no guarantee of being successful in the hot rodding business.........

I personally did not like it at all! If I could do it all over I wouldn't have gone in fact I don't even tell most people I went there! However I had done alot of things they show you already so I didn't learn much! It is a good school for the first timer it is very entry level as far as getting into the feild! For someone who already knows whats going on it is a waste of money! good luck! That is quit possibly the most boring town ever also!

Yeah, I can't imagine Laramie Wyoming being much fun but I guess it is probably better this way. With nothing to do I can spend more time on stuff that matters like school and such. Could anyone give me some input on Wyotech like the staff, classes, etc. I heard it is kinda like the military, very prestigious. This is probably a good thing because of the discipline aspect. Also I am going to try to find work in the automotive feild while I am there so I can learn a little more on top of school. Is this a good idea or will I be spending most of my time studying? As expensive as it is I am going to need to make a little money on the side. My girlfriend is also moving with me so we will have to find our own place off campus which means I will have to pay high rent as well. Hopefully she can find a good job over there so I don't have to pay for anything... ya right :)

Thanks for your replies and once again I look foward to your input.

Brad

Good luck getting a job in the automotive feild! The auto parts stores get hundreds of applications when I was there I was a RA for the school but you will not be able to do that since you have to stay off campus! If you want some info PM me

Well I think your looking a little bit OVER your head there. I looked into that school and all (well I looked at VC Tech but it's the same thing as Wyotech and the guy that started wyotech started VC Tech) and I got accepted, planned to go there and now at last minute I changed my mind. I thought the same you did, I didn't really look at any other schools much and now I am looking into my local community college and for 5500 bucks I think it is I am going to be getting my Associates Degree and learning the same stuff and also 8 weeks (I think either weeks or months) I will be working in the classroom and then the other 8 I will be working at the dealership AND getting paid. So look around more. To me the Wyotech is too much money and it's like a regular school whereas the community college you can either have a full time job and then take night classes or you can get your associates and still make money doing the dealership, etc. I don't plan to work for a dealership most of my life or anything, my goal is to first work for another independant shop and then have one of my own one day.

Oh and don't let Wyotech talk you into things like the will say about getting you jobs after, etc. They dont GARANTEE it! We had a guy come from Wyotech to our school and he was the main guy that deals with all the (what do you call that now, where the recruit...) oh yeah recruiters that recruite you and he came in the class talked with us and just talked crap about every other school but theirs. I told him that I can be going to a community college for 5500 and still live at home for free, etc. He yelled at me and the whole class and said that I was lying. I gave him a calculator, showed him my papers had him add it up and then showed him. He looked at it and then said "what about food and housing, add that up, it is more than our school" then I told him AGAIN that I don't have to worry about it because I will still be at home and he said he doesn't care. It's all basically one big game. They try to help you and you help them by giving them money and to give them that money is harder than them to teach you. Get what I am saying?
Some people love that school, don't get me wrong but it is because they haven't LOOKED around more at other schools. Look around, visit other schools, talk to the students there and get a list for each school with one side that says pros the other that says cons. At the end see which list looks the best.