Business degree
There's four years of your life down the drain.
I am 55 years old, no schooling past 8th grade. I was there until 12th and I got the diploma. BIG DEAL!
You can't wipe your a$$ with what the current education system has to offer.
I didn't learn anything I could use in the real world past 8th grade.
I have never had any machining schooling.
I bought my first cnc in 2013 at age 50, and I now have 7 machines.
Hurco VM30i 50x20x20
Hurco TM6 Lathe
Hurco VMX50 59x26x26 - Ordered ( A/C 4th & 5th Axis ) full 5 Axis.
ProtoTrak 16/30 Lathe
ProtoTrak 2 op mill
Stepcraft 3 Axis desktop with laser ( gasket making & engraving machine.) this machine is amazing. We have every option made for this thing.
Mark-In-Box CNC engraving machine.
I am completely self taught ( you tube ) is amazing.
You can learn more quicker on YouTube then at any college.
It all depends how aggressive you are to learn.
I have 5 full time guys including myself. My shop is in the woods 10 miles from town.
Give me a 15 year old farm town kid that's focused, that doesn't smoke pot and take perscription drugs for A.D.D. And I will teach him how to make money. By the time he is 20 he is making $25 plus per hour plus bonus's making over $45 per hour on commission. ( you want to see ( Drive ) set up a commission system.
Between the college professors and the M.D.Doctors screwing up our kids,
and then the M.D. Doctors putting all the men over 40 years old on cholesterol & high blood pressure meds.....they turn these guys into walking junkie's - ( if anyone chooses to take perscrption drugs from any of these moron M.D. Doctors coming out school you need your heads examined. There is a natural cure for 99% anything that goes wrong with us. Most of the problems are caused by poor diet. - In my shop if I catch anyone taking prescription drugs
Without my approval you will be fired.
If this country would pull their heads out of theirs a$$es and realize we need about 90% less kids going to college and more kids 15 to 16 years old we can work with and and train at a resonable wage. ( THAT HAVE NO SCHOOL LOANS ) JESUS !!! It's not complicated..... 16 years old you can give the 8 per hour the first year, 10 the second year, 12 per hour the third year, 15 the 4 th year. Year 5 20 to 28 per hour plus commission ( depends on your type shop ) and how well you are managing your Men. ( if they start at 16 years old they live at home for free, and have ZERO expenses ) they eat the parents food, use their washer & dryer. So these kids are making good money and learning a valued education in the machining industry. It's a no-brainer.
I have 4 great guys, 10% because they are smart - 90% of the reason they are great is the simple fact that I trained them to do what we do here at Indy Specialty.
Trying to get good help is almost impossible thanks to the far left nut jobs like Schummer & Pelosi & their clan of idiots ( And I don't want to hear any BS about politics ! This isn't political it's just the hard cold facts.
Thank the all Mighty above for Trump he is the only hope to save this screwed up country. ( everything started getting better the day he got in office )
America - A country infatuated with healthcare and college.
Healthcare - basicly not needed. I am 55 years old and I have never had healthcare insurance and I do not go to the doctor and I am never going to unless I break my arm. ( if I do I will write a check for my bill and go home ) if you have a symptom - search YouTube - you will find a better answer then any Practicing M.D. Doctor can give you.. ( there are more great Doctors on you tube that gave up their practice because they realized how corrupt the drug industry is ) It's a proven fact that more people are killed by Medical Doctors and per riptide drugs then are ever saved.
College - co-signed loans guaranteed by the parents - money to universities that ruin our kids brains with progressive values
And they learn nothing that can be used by existing business's.
I wish you the best of luck with your new shop ! Congrats !
Godspeed !! Machine safely !!
Dan