What do you do for work?
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From: Central Wisconsin
RE: What do you do for work?
ORIGINAL: thirdgenlxi
Here's what I work on everyday....
Some of these.... (6.4L)
And TONS of these **** boxes.... (6.0L)
So yea.... if you can't tell by now (lol), I'm a Ford diesel tech. I almost have my senior master certification, just one more class to take and a finish up my ASE tests and I'll get that. So I can work on anything with all the certifications I have now (7 full pages when I printed it out, lol), but I stick to the diesels. With the 6.0L there's always plenty of work, and it's something nobody else wants to do so there's no 'competition', and all the work comes to me and the other diesel techs. I don't want to do it forever, but for now I enjoy it. It's hard work and you get plenty dirty, but I dunno for some reason I like it, for now anyways *shrug*. In a couple years I may go back to school.... I'm not sure exactly for what but I'm leaning towards the HVAC field.
I went through the Ford Asset program, which is a 2 year factory sponsored training program. A coop between ford dealers, a local technical school, and a local community college. Graduated that in 2005. Best bang for the buck training you can get for this industry. The entire 2 years only cost me $3000, my dealer payed the other $3000, I get $5000 worth of tools at the end, and I have a guarenteed job at graduation because you work at the dealer the entire time you're in school and get hands on training at the same time. Pretty sweet deal...
I gotta pull 2 6.0's this week.... one with a cracked block @ #5 cyl, and the other blown head gaskets. Biggest piece of S**T International has ever made [&:]
Here's what I work on everyday....
Some of these.... (6.4L)
And TONS of these **** boxes.... (6.0L)
So yea.... if you can't tell by now (lol), I'm a Ford diesel tech. I almost have my senior master certification, just one more class to take and a finish up my ASE tests and I'll get that. So I can work on anything with all the certifications I have now (7 full pages when I printed it out, lol), but I stick to the diesels. With the 6.0L there's always plenty of work, and it's something nobody else wants to do so there's no 'competition', and all the work comes to me and the other diesel techs. I don't want to do it forever, but for now I enjoy it. It's hard work and you get plenty dirty, but I dunno for some reason I like it, for now anyways *shrug*. In a couple years I may go back to school.... I'm not sure exactly for what but I'm leaning towards the HVAC field.
I went through the Ford Asset program, which is a 2 year factory sponsored training program. A coop between ford dealers, a local technical school, and a local community college. Graduated that in 2005. Best bang for the buck training you can get for this industry. The entire 2 years only cost me $3000, my dealer payed the other $3000, I get $5000 worth of tools at the end, and I have a guarenteed job at graduation because you work at the dealer the entire time you're in school and get hands on training at the same time. Pretty sweet deal...
I gotta pull 2 6.0's this week.... one with a cracked block @ #5 cyl, and the other blown head gaskets. Biggest piece of S**T International has ever made [&:]
Looks to be a pretty good deal thou with the help with education and all, for the future career...maybe you wanna be the boss of the entire shop by getting a general Buisness Degree, or go in to HVAC.
