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Im leaving the military after 7.5 LOOOOOOONG years of service and im going to Universal Technical Institute for 3 years. 1st year will be collision repair and paint refinishing. The 2nd year will be the automotive technician course and the 3rd will be specialty training for either Porsche or another brand (I wish they had mazda SO bad lol)

My question is anyone know a guy who knows a guy or have been to the school themselves? Did you enjoy the school? What are you doing after? Is it in the automotive field?

I did 2 years in auto body at local community college.
As long as you can get a decent paying job after you're done that's all that matters. Not many shops want to hire a guy straight out of school.

holy fast reply batman!!

Yeah i wouldnt hire anyone right out of school either. Maybe i get a boss later down the line that hires me but i have to ```prove´´ myself before he puts me on any big jobs.

If your going because you enjoy the work great but if it's for the money I'd have to say, make another selection. From what I know with the environmental laws it's getting really pricey now to paint a car. Minimum price in Canada is around $2500 and that's with absofuckinglutly no body work. Most people won't pay that. Anyway don't mean to be an a-- just wanted to add to the thread.

No i am DONE with doing things for the money. Im mainly going because on of my many passions is for cars of all kinds!! I would love to work with them and on them in anyway.

Then who knows, maybe you'll end up working with Chip Foose. You never never know.

that would be mint!!

My ultimate dream/goal is to either be mech at a mazda around here/work for a tuning co of ANY kind (corksport, COBB, stuff like that) or work at mazdaspeed down in southern California as as cheesy as that sounds

I went to uti in az for two years specialized in ford which Mazda and ford have in common and now working as a tech so I made a good choice learned a lot