E-b0la

Well I guess I've had a mid college epiphany, and realized I really don't want to work with computers the rest of my life. I tried doing engineering for a major but all the math and design ---- make me want to kill myself. I am a hands on learner. I hate books and reading and that ----. I want to work on cars, trucks and equipment. Dropping out to be a regular mechanic is out of the question and would be stupid.

What I'm looking for is a decent school that would offer an associates (since most auto related degrees are associates) or even a bachelors in something like auto repair, diesel tech or w/e. I'm thinking i might end up at a community college, and I don't really want to go to one coming from where I am.

I'm in the north east so I'm looking in like NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, and RI. I don't want to go to the city either.

So anyone have any suggestions?

Secondaries

My major is mechanical engineering technology, which is basically a 4 year class in machining. You learn cad/cam and mechanical properties of materials. Fun so far and the highest math you need is Cal 2. I attend University of Houston, but call around and see if any of the schools near you offer something similar.

89shithatch

i am going to school for diesel technology. i love it. and my place of employment is great.

catch.can

thats what i want to do sometime
diesel tech would be good stuff

J-MAN

ah ---- it i'm in...lol yeah right.

i think i went throught the same thing you are going through. i did 4 years in the navy as an IT (informations systems tech) and decided when i got out i would goto college for a degree in that so i would have experiance and a degree so it would look good and i would get hired before somebody with just a degree. well just about two years into it, after all 4 cisco class's (wich were a bitch) i had 5 credits to go. like 2 in some bullshit "hoe to be proffesional" type class and like 3 credits in Coop (whewre you work in the field for free). started to think that i'm really not so much into networking as i was the day i started and really couldn't see myself doing this the rest of my life. so i dropped out and went into real estate lol. bad move hahaha i hate working for commision. just do what what would make you feel happy and you wont regret

catch.can

you dirty ole' IT
our IT's in our command are worthless, they just tell you to call nmci for everything.
those *****

J-MAN

lol, nctams was our favorite excuse when we needed time to figure our ---- out .



oh and i was gonna get orders to a P3 squad on whidbey but they came too late and i already had my short timers attitude

catch.can

you shoulda done it. its nice up here if you are an outdoors person. do you remember what squadron?
vp40,vp46 or vp1?

J-MAN

naw im not sure which one it was but i was hella stoked when i first put in for it, but i was denied because it was E-6 orders and i was only an E-5 but up for E-6 within the next cycle wich was less then a year away. i have alot of family in the NW thats where i was moving anyways just thought it would be cool to get those orders. a little over a month before i checked out my CPT asked me why i was getting out (i was the one that helped him with most of his tech issues) so i told him i didn't get the orders i wanted so he pulled some strings and they came too late. i was already looking forward to cruising DD-214. kinda wish i would have just took them and the bonus since it would have been tax free sinc ewe were in the gulf at the time , but oh well.

juli0_bustamante

i thought about taking up auto mechanics and become a shop teacher.... ---- yeah!