Just keep at it, 'cause it's worth it in the end if you get a good education and a trade.
On the welding subject; once you get started with shielding gas be sure NOT to run your fan pointed directly at your work. It will require you to turn up the shileding gas pressure and use too much gas if you're blowing it away as you weld. You really don't need a fan for MIG or TIG if you're not welding galvanized, or other dirty stuff anyway. Unless you just want a fan to help keep the guy welding cool.

 

Yeah I'm so ready to throw in the towl on this college bulls*%$ but I want a good job so I'll have to suck it up. Going tomorrow to talk to them and get a few things straightened out.

 

Dude there's financial aid out there. I know you say you have a scolarship but even if it means getting a student loan... du it.

I am fortunate that I get a large enough pell grant to cover tuition. You should be awarded something from FAFSA.

 

Skilled tradesmen are a dying breed! At your age it will be a real asset in the future to have a skill. Seems far too many young people are going to college to become white collar workers, and paying someone else to do their dirty work. The problem is who will be trained to do that dirty work?
In Europe this has already reached it's peak, and skilled craftsmen are earning far more than white collar workers. It's just a matter of time until we get to the same situation. Right now there are some who resent paying blue collar workers a good wage, but once the shortage reaches a high enough level they'll understand, and it will take decades to correct the problem.

 

I'm pretty sure I can't get anything through FAFSA I think our family income is too high and the issue with that is you have to have it in by march at this school. And since I had to wait to finish school and another 3 months for my mom to finish my transcript I didn't get anything sent in, I didn't even get signed up for classes till april.

I couldn't take a pencil pushing computer job, I like hands on, doing stuff sitting in a cubical all day would turn me into a news flash office killer. What I really want as a job is a personal trainer I'd be making the same or more then a diesel tec but it'd be less work and I like helping people. But I'm the type of person that always has a back up so this year I'm taking diesel tec, next year massage therapy and the year after some fitness classes.
But either way I'll be doing something I enjoy and thats something that matters to me. I'd rather make 20 grand a year, live in a crappy appartment and be happy over making 100 grand a year, have a nice house and be miserable.

 

Having a backup is great, but better to concentrate your efforts on one area. Spreading yourself around and learning several trades is OK, but I doubt you'll ever be great at any of them if you don't enjoy one of them enough to give it your full attention.
Believe me I know from experience what it's like to go from one career to another, and it's time wasted. I started out as an apprentice baker in a bakery, then quit and went to work as a mechanic at a Cadillac dealer. Went to GM training school, then got drafted and when I got home from the service I decided to change careers again and became an electrician. Stayed with that for the rest of my working days, but looking back I should have stayed with any one of those jobs and not moved around. Lost a lot of good years towards perfecting a trade, and also lost years of retirement benefits. I spent enough years being an electrician to become a good one, but as good as my retirement is, it would have been much better with all those other years credited to it.
At the young age I was I didn't even consider all that, but hindsight is 20/20, so now I can tell you if I did it all over I'd take time to choose a trade and stick with that one, not waste time and money training for several trades.

 

Yeah I have thought about concentrating on one thing, But I really don't know what would be best I mean I don't know how long we will be using fossil fuels. I honestly can't imagine us ever not having vehicles that run on gas and diesel but these days I don't know. being a diesel mechanic would probably be the steadiest job with the best benifits, but physical therapy would have the potential buisness upstart. I really guess it will depend on what job I can get after school but i guess it would be smarter to decide on one or the other since if I just stick with diesel tech I'd have two years of working instead of college.

 

Back up plans are good. While I haven't lost interest in electronics. I found that learning is much harder than I anticipated. I was always told " oh your so smart." Until I got out and tested myself against others I though it too. Then I got a D in electronics math. The best I can muster in any electronics class is a C+. all my other classes have been fairly easy to get through. I had a 3.8 GPA until the electronics classes brought me down to a 2.6.

I don't have a back up plan. I could change my major but can't figure out what. I too want to be a tradesman and start a repair business. There has to be a future in Bio-medical Electronics. My thinking is they can't outsource healthcare.

 

That's kinda what I had thought about phiscical therapy I mean no matter what people will always get hurt so it will always be a needed profession, But all in all idk yet I'm probably still gonna take both if the hathaway scholorship will pay for it that way I will have more job opportunities and who knows I might end up working two jobs at some point in time and need it, but next year is a long time away so only time will tell.

 

Haven't posted on here in awhile, been busy with work and getting ready for school which starts tomorrow.
I've worked on the car off and on for the past two weeks, got gas for my welder last week and got that set up today gonna practice with mig a bit later.
Took the doors off the car today and is it me or are those camaro doors heavy as hell? I must be getting weak.
Got everything ready to drop the front sub I had the bolts all lubed up, sprayed them yesterday and several times today. Got em all losened up pretty easy, then went to take em out and of course as always ya get that one bolt 90% percent of the way out and then it decides to spin. So the bolt in question is the passenger side rear sub frame bolt and I don't see any access points so I'm guessing my only way to that retarded square nut set up is cutting throught the floor pan?

this is just my rough guess of where I need to cut I'll measure when I get to that point.




Here's my mig set up, I gotta get a cart made for it.