Good day scotty, is getting the course of automotive technology in college good or fine or maybe best if i want to be like you an honest mechanic and need to finish college for a degree? and i love cars also. Do automotive technicians also are in demand for jobs in the future? or maybe not because of the end of production of some internal combustion cars in the future?
Book smarts aren't everything. I would be studying electric cars and technology as that's the way things are moving. You don't need a degree in a particular field to be a mechanic.
Personally, I have a Master's in Business Administration and a Major in Computer Science. But those have mostly helped me run my business, though the CS was good as you get familiar with programming and how computers work. The ASE certifications, of course, mean the most and those courses really focus on the hands on knowledge you need.
And you can't replace real experience with book experience. Everyone is unique so it just depends on your skill set. But the world will always need mechanics.
Well always be electric cars too you learn about electricity modern cars have so many electric components you never run out of work. But I personally believe in experience more than just going to school because I've met many guys who went to school who were useless and many guys who never went to school who know how to fix things.
I studied mechanical engineering for a few years, and helped my step dad do various things to his cars over the years, so I learned how to do brakes pads, alternators and such. He has been kind of a mentor for fixing cars. It might partly be biological, too, my father used to rebuild carbureted car motors in the garage when he was in his 20s. He just did it, no training.
My engineering education is somewhat useful for figuring out complicated problems from the "theoretical" side, but it's not at all useful for actually fixing things. Really, the only place the engineering theories have helped was repairing the air conditioner in my pickup truck. I knew how they cooled, but absolutely nothing about tearing them apart. That's when I found Scotty's channel. I studied symptoms for a couple weeks, bought the specialty tools, then diagnosed and fixed my air conditioner in a couple hours. My step dad was blown away, he never had the know-how to attempt an A/C repair, let alone have it work correctly again. Sometimes the best people in a trade are those who learned over years and years of hands-on experience, not the book pusher who "studied" it for a degree. Now that I've fixed one, I try to help others. Haha. My next project in that realm may be figuring out how to retrofit an R-12 based air conditioner to work with R-134a.
