2007-02-10 06:45:43 · 12 answers · asked by rafick m 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The best way to become a mechanic is to join the armed services and learn from the best.You will get good rates of pay with an excellent apprenticeship that will be recognised by all companies when you leave.// In response im not an army recruiter,i served my apprenticeship through the forces and left to get a well payed job on civy street working for a well known racing team! I did not realise that the Navy was getting shot at in Iraq and Afghanistan at the moment either.
2007-02-10 06:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am currently an Automotive Apprentice. Right now I'm taking my classroom time at SAIT in Calgary, AB. I started off by working in an oil change shop, just for basic experiance, and then I was hired at a full service garage. I worked there when being trained to do jobs more complicated then changing oil. After about 6 months, My boss sponcered me as an Apprentice. The Apprenticship is 1500 hours in the shop, and 300 hours in the classroom per year, for four years. But you can take a course through SAIT and its 1800 hours in the classroom and school shop and then after two years you can be sponcered by a garage.
If a garage does hire you, before you are an apprentice, Be prepaired to work in a wash bay, or oil change rack for a wile, while your boss moniters your progress and ability to learn new concepts, and then after awile they MIGHT take you on as an apprentice. I was working as a non apprentice in the current job for about 6 months before I was sponcered, I've heard some places have taken up to two years to sponcer some people and after a wile, they may even decide not to sponcer you if they do not think you are ready.
EDIT - BBKK - Do you have any idea how hard it is to become a mechanic now a days. Its not just about turning a wrench. Things are ******* hard to do on modern cars because of limited space. If a job is said to take 4 hours to preform, IT TAKES 4 HOURS TO PREFORM. We are not con atrests, Technicians have to know more about cars in general then Doctors have to know about the human body. Did you know that? Did you know that the average Technicin going through schooling will spend approxamatly $20 000- $30 000 on schooling and basic tools, and some licenced tehcnicians tools cost well over $100 000 becaue of all the vehicle specific tools needed. How about how every Vehicle is different and may not be running the same systems, unlike a doctor needing to learn about a body, they are all the same on the inside. Vehicles range so much in parts, If you think its easy, YOU TRY to become a sucussful Mechanic without people thinking you are a con. **** you for thinking that a Mechanic is a worthless piece of **** that everyone can walk on.
Sorry to everyone else, I can not stand people whos ignorance excedes thier education on a topic.
2007-02-10 07:04:38 · answer #2 · answered by gregthomasparke 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i suggest cehcking out your local community college first for automotive programs. That is allways a good start,
you could next check out Wyotech or UTI, Both of those schools have an excellent reputation but they arent cheap.
I went to wyotech and it was the best thing i could do....
but nothing is better that getting out in the shop and doing it for real....you can learn all you want in the classroom but it doesnt mean a thing until you get your hands on your tools and actually fix the problem...
good luck...
2007-02-10 07:24:00 · answer #3 · answered by ke6mdw13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would you ever want to be a mechanic for dirty,cold job customers always moaning and at the end of the week you get paid peanuts. go and work at aldi or any other foreign supermarkets as a shelf stacker more money
2007-02-10 23:16:41 · answer #4 · answered by stuartalan w 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Write to ALL the garages in your area asking if they want apprentices. This shows initiative for a start. Also trade the Motor Trade Association. Apprentices pay is crap to start with but it gets better. Good technicians are worth their weight in gold these days.
2007-02-10 06:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by Bandit600 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many years of schooling and graduate from uti school keep up to date and contin ue to go to seminars erery 3 months
2007-02-10 06:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by toadyboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go into apprenticeship through a (community) college.
2007-02-10 07:01:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a specialist college n get a trade but the money is poverty when training uve been warned
2007-02-10 08:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by julz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It helps to go to school for it. There are couple of good places to go to .There not cheap and take a couple of years to complete. The above???????Do you want to go to war?? Must be a recruiter.
2007-02-10 06:55:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to school or do like me, not be able to afford to pay some sucker 85 dollars an hour to stand around and bullshit all day. and do it myself.
2007-02-10 07:03:30 · answer #10 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋