While I was working at North County Smog and Repair I had a moment of realization about what my life would be like if I went to a four-year college or I was to go to a two-year school and start working right out of the gate. My original plan was to look at Texas A&M University or ASU, I was looking at going into automotive engineering. Only the only reason I wanted to do that was for the simple fact of saying I attended a four-year college. This really wouldn't be bad other then it may just slow me down and put me in debt. The reason I was even thinking about doing this is that of two simple reasons there has been no one in my family to attend a four-year university and that people always look at you differently when you show that kind of level of dedication for something. One thing I really noticed though while I was working was how I could go to Palomar and start getting my certifications in mechanics and work for a small shop like Scottys then work several years, then look at making my own shop. Only this just has really made m,y view change because there are so many ways I can go about it and then the reality of do I really want to put myself into such a high amount of debt or do I want to work and make money and hopefully get my own business later on.
When I look at what my co-workers have been able to accomplish with only a certification it really sounds like you get really far with everything. It makes me wonder how their lives could have been if they went to college or what if they owned there own business how would they fair to everything that is going on in the shop. I have also noticed how well of my mentor has been since his father has been slowly working on obtaining the shop. I really think it is a career that can lead you down a successful path because it is one of those things that will always be needed. We look at careers like doctors, dentist and another important career that aren't like hobbies and never thought about your mechanic because they are always there waiting to fix some part on your car that is broken on your car. When I look back at the internship, it has been the most amazing time of my life. I have had a blast being able to learn so much about these cars and what parts are located in what areas. I definitely feel more prepared after working there on cars. I feel as if I could work on a car before but wouldn't know how to do as much or how to pull it apart. After internship, I feel so much more comfortable with cars and somewhat of what I think of what I could do to pull a vehicle apart. I really feel really prepared more for what you do when you have to diagnose cars and find out whatever the problem might be.
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While we were at our high school internship we were tasked with coming up with a project that can help benefit your mentor or the company they work for. When first coming up with ideas I wasn't really sure what I could do to help their shop but then Scotty my mentor told me about how they didn't know what they had in stock for oil, oil filters, air filters. these where just some of the items they didn't have logged in their computer. When looking through there computer at Inventory they had some oil filters that where negative 70 this just proves that knowing what they had would help them so they would use the product they have in there shops.
This project was very interesting for me to see because I have worked in smaller companies before. It was really cool being able to help out Scotty with knowing what they have in there shop inventory, especially since they moved shops only a year ago and they weren't really sure what was over in their second shop. During the time of the move, they were just trying to move supplies to there new shop down the way. This project was also able to help them keep up with there inventory for the future when they have time to just count out what they have gotten back in stock. When they use an oil filter they write it down on the sales list of whatever product they have used. When I went about taking inventory all I did was take a piece of printer paper and wrote down what the item was and its part number and counted the quantity on the shelf. Once I had taken the information the quantity of the items I took it and went straight to the computer and I corrected the amount that where already in the computer and made them to the correct amount on the computer so when they add it next to the order slip they can see how many they have left at the end of everything. While I was working on putting in the part number to update their amount of oil filters and air filters, you would find some that had not yet been put into there machines so we took note of that and highlighted them so we could deal with it later. |