Originally Posted by
Hellfire_Studios
I know a few that went to tampa tech for high school. they liked the program.....
Hcc has a class that I and a few more on this forum attended a few years ago. It was good to get some of the basics. Basically to get you into a shop as a helper. from there you learn most of your training in the real world.
Ptec has a program but focuses more on the custom side of things...which is fine but not where all the money is. I would go after the collision side and then learn the custom on your own if that is what interests you.
I am lucky to make a living in the custom field but I could make alot more doing more collision work.
Hope I helped.
Josh
Thats not true at all. I attend PTEC along with some other members of TR and they and myself will tell you, we do NOT focus on the 'custom side of things'. We're trained for insurance repairs because that IS where the moneys at, we're just also taught how to do some other things, along with practice airbrushing, custom painting, etc. I'm not sure who told you your information about our school though..we do collision repair/welding/frame straightening/painting/estimates etc, then get down to more detailed work.