Just applied for the Welding Diploma.. the wife and I have been talking and its time to get out of the automotive field per se and do the stuff I enjoy but have had no training in... So I am looking to pursue the whole welding, fabrication direction.. am also contemplating the courses in Axis/Cad/milling and all that... basically anything to do with being able to know the in depth details for fabrication, learning the equipment... Eventually I would love to buy a bunch of equipment for home and stuff.. if only I had done this 5 yrs ago I would have bought that 3D CNC machine on k-bid 3 mths ago... damn it... so just wondering if anyone goes there.. has any advice or knowledge of the school... I hate school, I aint a book person or class person.. I learn best doing it.. but hey, its time to man up stop hiding behind my fears and step into a future I enjoy....
If you are applying for a welding certi, skip dunwoody and go to HTC, they are far cheaper, with night and day better welding program.
EP doesn't have that program anymore so he'd have to drive to Brooklyn Dark ... I was bummed myself I was in it when I was in HS. It's now the fire fighter classroom/training.
I knew they moved it to BP, I was in it I toured dunwoody for welding, and shat myself when i saw how much they wanted, and basicly all they have is a bunch of OXY torch welders, srsly a joke....
I'm there 4 nights a week in the Automotive Technician Apprenticeship Cooporative. Screw my B.S. in Econ, I want to work on cars for a living. (also, anyone want to hire an apprentice level tech? I need a job to get some credits)
I am done with the Auto Degree in June, you get a good education but its not worth the amount of money they charge. The welding program has changed to teaching you what you want to know and not all the extra stuff you will never use. I am thinking about taking the welding course in the future.
Way off topic, but i work in the CAD Design/CNC machining field. It is a good field to get into. I have a 1 year degree from a community college, and make pretty decent money for the amount of education I have...
prob true. i graduated from dunwoody w/ comp networking degree. LOTS of day classes hard to hold a job sometimes because of the amount of time in school. They wanted it to feel like it was your "workday" coming to class...etc. good education though. on the other hand, now i am at MCTC close to full time at ~6.75 hr per week and far less per credit dollar cost as well. I took a intro program in High school that included welding/machining/cad/etc and i really liked the course. good facility, not as "ghetto" as folks seem to think it is. its a normal comm. coll. atmosphere, there is a more diverse population at MCTC then the BP campus of Hen. Tech will prob ever see. For what its worth -Dan
well there is a lot of false info, i'm glad i viewed your post. unfortunately i can help you here. eric is as wrong as wrong gets.. i'm in the welding program at dunwoody.. they have ALL NEW lincoln machines as of this year, also the director of the program is NEW and awesome, the material you learn in the classroom is all NEW and its very good, also if you took a tour and saw only the oxy stations you must be on some serious drugs because 75% of the welding shop is welding stations, there are like 40-50 lol!!!!! i have 2 people in my class have gone to mctc for welding and they think it is a total joke compared to the dunwoody program, guess that throws that out the window.. in all honestly 2 weeks after the last welding class graduated 7 out of the 8 already had jobs and the person making the least amount of money was making 17.50 starting.. if you're going to complain about 15k for that kinda starting pay/name you dont make any sense..
yeah my wife was talking to a guy at the gym and he said end of last class they had like 12 people graduate and they each had up to 9job placements to choose from... so can you just go and take a tour, do you call for it... also flexure.. I am thinking after my welding course to go up into that area as well... just have to line all the ducks up and hopefully something happens...
Yea, there is nothing wrong with having degrees in more than 1 field!! Personally, I dont think I could be a welder for a living, well at least not a production welder (weld 8 hours a day non-stop), in a prototype scenario though, where you are only welding like 20% of the time, it wouldnt be so bad IMO...
well my plan is to learn as much as I can, get some job experience besides my old muffler shop I owned and also learn cnc and mills... then set up a small shop at home and design stuff... got years to do it and in 10 yrs when i am 44yrs old I should be able to tinker and work from home
Like I said, it was 3-4 years ago, and it was a total dump, I wasnt gonna pay that much money for a name.
yeah thats 75% right away, a lot of people have a certain job they are looking for and thats obviously going to take more time. especially if you want to specialize in a certain type of welding, a number of people also go to the pipe fitters program after welding. if you call the office they can set you up on a tour, i can ask if you can just walk around with me or something.
yep.. I even started listening to MPR.. next I am going to hug a tree, and the slit my wrists... Shiney... I will see when works.. what times are you there...??? some days I work a full day then the next 2hrs and I go home.. so I never know...
i had went there for an admissions interview, and yes they had just gotten ALOT of new lincoln welders and is in the process of reworking the welding department. This can be a high possible choice for me, but im really debating on where and what i want to go into..
they changed the 1st quarter schedule to 1130ish-430.. g2.5rs guy i heard they spend just under 250k on new equipment..
