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You definately want to make you career something you enjoy doing. If you like wrenching on boats, you will be able to learn the technical know how by attending a school like MMI. But I would not stop there. It would still be a good idea to attend college for a business management type degree. That combined with the technical hands on training and experience you can gain while going for your business degree will allow you to elevate from the mechanic, to the shop owner. An education is never a bad thing.
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My senior year of college the Air Force sent a recruiting bus to my campus and brought us down to Scott AFB in St. Louis. If memory serves, we would have went in as 2nd LT's and as they continually reminded us, been able to retire after 20 years of service. Had I gone in I would be 5 years retired at this point in life!!
Enlisted probably at an E-7 or E-8 with about a 1800 a month payment
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Go to school. That piece of paper that says you graduated doesn't get you squat! If thats why someone goes to school it is a waste of time and money. However understanding the dedication that it took on your part, and the desire to learn is what opens doors. Do what you love! there is noting worse then going to work for the next 30,40,50 years hating what you do. If you love what you do, you will NEVER work a day in your life.
I don't care if you want sell sea shell by the roadside, or take Bill Gates position. Do what you love, and be the best that you can be. Life is good!
I don't care if you want sell sea shell by the roadside, or take Bill Gates position. Do what you love, and be the best that you can be. Life is good!
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Sorry to desagree with ya. Money comes as a result of what you do, not why you do it! Some people are very happy with little money.
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I went in the Navy after I partied myself out of college. I stayed there for 11 years in the advanced electronics field (FC). I used my time to make connections and set myself up for a job when I got out (the right training, etc). I went right back into a Gov't position with the Navy and combined with my military service, have over 20 years Gov't service now. Guaranteed paycheck, and well into the 6 figures range. Never went to college, but the military experience and training more then made up for it. It just shows there are other avenues of higher education and ways to gain experience then college. By the way, college gives you zero, 0, nada experience. That is why kids with impressive degrees are lining up at the unemplyment office right now, or still living with their folks. The time of a guaranteed job for $60k or higher is pretty much over. Employers want experience as well. College is a good thing, but not always for everyone. I have quite a few friends who went to college who are unemployed or having to get entry-level positions all over again due to down-sizing......
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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If you are going to get a college degree and want a sure fire career after all that money and study time, A degree in chemical engineering is a pretty solid choice.
http://www.che.tamu.edu/
http://www.che.tamu.edu/
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GO TO SCHOOL!!!!!!
In 2008 I had been in the construction industry for 31 years, made good money. I owned my own company for 10 of those years until 9/11. We lived on my wife's teaching income for about a year until I decided that 48 was not to old to go back to college. I will graduate in December 2012 with my bachelors in business with a finance and computer systems concentration.
If I can do it, anyone can do it! I hated high school and I have a 3.8 GPA and a presidents cup award.
Never too late!
In 2008 I had been in the construction industry for 31 years, made good money. I owned my own company for 10 of those years until 9/11. We lived on my wife's teaching income for about a year until I decided that 48 was not to old to go back to college. I will graduate in December 2012 with my bachelors in business with a finance and computer systems concentration.
If I can do it, anyone can do it! I hated high school and I have a 3.8 GPA and a presidents cup award.
Never too late!
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I went in the Navy after I partied myself out of college. I stayed there for 11 years in the advanced electronics field (FC). I used my time to make connections and set myself up for a job when I got out (the right training, etc). I went right back into a Gov't position with the Navy and combined with my military service, have over 20 years Gov't service now. Guaranteed paycheck, and well into the 6 figures range. Never went to college, but the military experience and training more then made up for it. It just shows there are other avenues of higher education and ways to gain experience then college. By the way, college gives you zero, 0, nada experience. That is why kids with impressive degrees are lining up at the unemplyment office right now, or still living with their folks. The time of a guaranteed job for $60k or higher is pretty much over. Employers want experience as well. College is a good thing, but not always for everyone. I have quite a few friends who went to college who are unemployed or having to get entry-level positions all over again due to down-sizing......
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
You will find with college is this. After 5 years work experience what degree hardly begins to matter unless your a doctor, engineer, or some specialty They look at what you have done, a college degree is just a check the block get you an interview. Where a college degree does matter is in the specialized feilds already noted or within that first few years you worked.
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