>> The program here at WCTC is an excellent one for a starting point.
Even after the schooling is done, you're going to basically serve an apprenticeship afterwards.
It will take years to learn the rest of your craft,
but at WCTC they gave me a core foundation of skill sets and knowledge when it comes
to knowing all the components that you're working with.
How to keep yourself and others safe, and then be able to set goals for yourself
on moving forward within the trade.
A lot of study of heat, the thermodynamics of how does heat energy behave.
How can we harness it.
How can we use it for heating.
You will learn how to read and even draw prints for equipment,
be able to diagnosed issues with the equipment.
We'll do a lot of refrigeration along with that, but and you also learn what are all the pieces
and parts are, not just the tools, but when you go out into the world after this program,
if you want to get taken under the wing by one of the older guys in the craft that's going
to retire in a couple of years he doesn't want to take someone he's got to teach the basics to,
but you'll come out of, this program knowing what all the pieces
and parts are, what tools there are.
A general idea of the direction you should be going,
and then get like a good training from that core afterwards.
Well, this specific craft is a typically a nonunion craft on the service end of it.
So when you get hired at a company, and I was just talking with a gentleman
that runs my program before coming here, and he said that every single one
of his students got a job before they even graduated from this last year,
but the companies will take it upon themselves when they find the right person
to continue the training and pay you at the same time.