NASCAR Technical Institute and Pit Crew U
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i say be a wild ass hillbilly. then in 2015 ill join you. i gotta get away from these bees man!!!:roflmao:
I work in the heart of nascar country. I have some of the biggest race shops within a 15 mile radius and have alot of friends in the business. I will tell you that if you dont have an inside contact in the race shops that really speaks up for you it is near impossible to get a job. If you do get a job it is LONG hours and the race shops are more streamlined than ever. Most jobs are more like working on an assembly line than what you dream of working in a race shop. You will get assigned one job and do it over and over and over. If you spend you time in a tech school and manage to get a job it will most likely be complete grunt work that no one else wants to do until you pay your dues for a while. You may pay your dues and get promised to move up, but if your team had a bad season the team owners really enjoy completely cleaning house of all employees and starting fresh with an entire new team. It is a common practice that I see often. There is no job security in the nascar seen. You will learn to jump from team to team and work a ton of hours and not have stability.
My brother in law moved from AZ to Indy with nothing right out of HS and worked at a Advanced auto parts store close to the race shops up there for years. He wanted to get in the Drag car scene though. He made friends with a Indy Lites car owner through the store and got a gig with them. Didn't pay hardly shit and when he wasn't on the road he still worked at Advance. After 3-4 years of that he got a break and a chance to go work for Andretti Green in their Lites program. After a couple years there he got moved to Marco's team for a year then on to Danica's team and is now doing ok and is somewhat stable because he's been in the industry and knows most of the people involved.
BUT like said one bad season and it's very common to clean house and if no one else did that year you're stuck without a job and the skills learned working on race cars don't mean much to many other places of employment as he's now finding out. He wants to get out but can't get a job anywhere else because being able to change a tire in 4 seconds isn't really helpful most places in the real world.
BUT like said one bad season and it's very common to clean house and if no one else did that year you're stuck without a job and the skills learned working on race cars don't mean much to many other places of employment as he's now finding out. He wants to get out but can't get a job anywhere else because being able to change a tire in 4 seconds isn't really helpful most places in the real world.
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Well put Matt. I have a military background that can get me a good paying job I just don't like my job. So if nothing else I can work for one of the big 3 letter agencies in DC (intel field) . I want to go to a trade school just not sure which one. Ive considered Denver Auto and Diesel or the like to get ASE certified but haven't made up my mind
ARCA would be a good start amd those teams are spread out a little more too. A lot of those guys are drivers/owners friends who volunteer their time though. AT least the local ARCA guys i know do.
Othrgrl (dustin) is spot on ill let u talk to bro personally he will tell u nti is a wataste of money /time pm me. My bro will tell u how and what's the best way to get intol
go to UNOH i went to NTI sucked bad when i went but im also a reacer at heart... just my 2 cents
nti cost 30 grand for a year,and you dont get any of your ASE stuff..
also UNOH is just a much better place they have motorsports teams.. nti says they will help you with this and that but........
when i went i had a job with a team,once NTI found out about it they made me quit the job..
pm me for more info on NTI if you want... again i say its a waste of money
Figured I would update this...after a great deal pf research it looks like UNOH is where I will be attending. Really like the class schedule and seems to be the best all around school for me. Still need to write greendmaxs brother and see if he thinks it is a good option tho
good reads about UNOH and their "diesel club" lol
http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123264
http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/cummins-pulling/424858-unoh-pulling-truck.html
http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123264
http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/cummins-pulling/424858-unoh-pulling-truck.html
Knew those threads would make it here eventually. For every dude that goes to these diesel tech schools with more any sense about them, there's probably 10 or more slap dicks going just cause diesels are cool & they think they'll know as much & be as capable as shops like Scheid at "turning up" their ragged out 12V.
I've personally known 3 that have gone. 2 make nearly 6-fig salaries managing or owning shops now while the other might as well had dropped a bag of hundreds on the ground & lit em on fire cause he's trimming trees make a little better than min wage! He's got a $25k piece of paper though.
I've personally known 3 that have gone. 2 make nearly 6-fig salaries managing or owning shops now while the other might as well had dropped a bag of hundreds on the ground & lit em on fire cause he's trimming trees make a little better than min wage! He's got a $25k piece of paper though.