Thoughts about WyoTech?

i went to school there in 02 and personal thought it was a joke with the dress code and shaving if i wanted to go to school for professional business working on walls street i could see it but not in the hot rod industry i have tattooed sleeves so i didnt care for that and your only qualified to be a apprentice when you graduate
i wish i would have just moved to the city and saved my 25k and work as a apprentice in a hot rod shop and got payed to learn instead of paying them to learn
i also had to take wyotech off my resume just to land a job

 

I truly believe that Trade schools delay getting started in the school of hard knocks. They are programs to spend taxpayers money through the student loan process, to occupy those that don't know how to knock on a door and ask a Manager at a shop for an entry level job. A diploma from a trade school is not a "Degree" in anything.
Save the money for other things. On the Job Training is more effective.

 

A friend of mine sent his boy to the sacramento facility and learned chassis fab and engine building and worked at a rod shop in los angeles and now he works at california hot rods in sonora cal he is doin great he reccomends the school to anyone willing to learn

 

Greetings! First off, holding to high standards of appearance and grooming will never be "outdated" when it comes to doing business, most of the people spending the big money at rod shops come from a generation that associates "tats", long hair and piercings with drug use and criminal activity and always will, you have to work hard to earn a customer's trust, looking like an ex-convict makes earning that trust that much harder. Secondly, long hair has no place in a shop, a friend of mine got his belt-buckle length hair caught in a lathe, luckily they were able to sew his scalp back on, too bad one of his ears got sewed back on a little crooked. Any kind of jewelry should never be worn in a shop for the same reason. And lastly, "Tats", long hair and piercings aren't signs of individuality, they are just means of attracting attention to yourself, your money is better spent on tools.

 

Ha; If having long hair, five day unshaven, piercings, tatoos, hairy chests showing through armless t-shirts, un-polished shoes,etc. scare off a prospective employer because he counts that in any way, only means he's unable to interview a job applicant for the things that count.
As for impressing a prospective customer; Done right, the customer could give a shit less about such things.
"Bob, please meet my Shop foreman Skruffy. Scruffy, show Bob those widgets that we milled yesterday, and the headers you built for that T-bucket, because he is thinking of having us custom build him some"......................

Grooming a part of the curriculum? "Horseshit", said the papa sparrow, "Let's Eat!
Just another reason a bright kid that wants to learn a hands--on trade should bypass the bullshit of a trade school...........

 

I started at Tech October of '05. I took Applied Service Management, Collision, Refinishing, Chassis Fabrication, and Street Rod Fabrication. I graduated in December of '06, and have been working for a dealership since January of '07. All in all it is a really good school. They have a lot of rules that seem like bullshit but, it really isn't that bad. ASM you wear a white button up shirt and tie with dress pants and shoes. yeah you gotta keep you hair shorter and keep you facial hair trimmed but it ain that bad. They don't care about tattoos.

The only other advice I can give you is watch out for cops. They don't take any shit from a Techer and are out to get you. That is the worst part of Laramie. Oh and watch out for the University of Wyoming frats, there is a on going fued with a lot of them, just jeaous of the cars we drive and build. I met some of my best friends out there. It was a blast and would do it again tomorrow.