formed by a partnership between Caterpillar, Volvo, John Deere, Tigercat, JCB, Kubota, Bobcat, Liebherr, Linkbelt
In a couple weeks, anyone that wanted to trade a couple thou in tuition could get a crash course in dozers, graders, plows, excavators, cranes, dumptucks, drilling, driving, transporting, and general maintenance on the variety and mix of the biggest names in construction and farming rolling equipment.
Just a thought.
I have no clue, maybe there already is such a thing. But I doubt there is one where those companies are partnered up
Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas has some of that. Construction, automotive, diesel mechanics (one year Caterpillar hired the whole graduating class). One of my sons just graduated with a Wood Production degree and has a job building museum exhibits. https://pittstate.edu/technology/
ReplyDeletea job building museum exhibits... damn, that's a dream job! My compliments!
DeleteOk, PSU has some, certainly it's not the only college or university with some, but I was trying to get across a notion of a construction company founded and run school where they provide the equipment, the whole variety of what they are selling so that the guys paying to go the school get the entire educational resources of Volvo, Cat, Komatsu, Deere etc
it just occurred to me to ask, did your son need the college degree to get the job, and student loans, or would he not have been qualified for it based on that companies requirements for a college degree in addition to the ability?
DeleteI think they like to hire those with a college degree, or some kind of training or experience. They are a high-quality company. https://1220.com/ He didn't have any loans, I work at the university and he got free tuition. He did have to pay for fees, books, and in his case materials and tools. He started working in high school and worked all through college and had the advantage of living at home also.
Deleteoh wow, lucky guy to get through without student loans! Dang! He better treat you to some spectacular Father's Day outings! You carried the load until he could step out into a career and a house payment!
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