Why I Want To Be A Collision Technician

The career I have chosen is collision repair. Mainly due to the scores on my interest inventory scoring high in social and realistic which means I have many great job careers to choose from such as a child social services representative, daycare aid, collision repair technician, social agent, insurance agent, a make-up sales representative and many more amazing career choices. Another reason is because I also because I love doing this job. Everything about this career brings me excitement; I am skilled in welding, buffing, waxing, painting and posses many more talents that this job requires of you. I am now attending my second year of a two year collision repair program at the Clearfield Career and Technology center to help better my understanding
Usually a collision repair technician works all year round. Summer is a good time for rust and to paint fades, along with in the winter time a collision repair technician tends to make more due to accidents during the winter more often caused by deer, bad weather, and rust. So they make roughly 40 percent more cash than they would during the summer time. A collision repair technician’s salary depends on if you work for an independent agency or an insurance company. Independent companies make anywhere from $16-$19 an hour and $31,290 per year. As for insurance companies, they tend to make a lot more. The average salary rate of June 2014 was $19-$24 an hour and $35,000 per year. The hours also depends on if you work for an independent company or an insurance company. Independent companies work anywhere from 30-40 hours per week due to less business. Where insurance companies work 50-60 hours per week due to more business. As you can see these pay rates aren’t as high as other job fields so for caution I have chosen two backup careers, a dental assistant and an
I considered this collage due to their high enrollment numbers of 500 per year and the room and board are absolutely beautiful and not too expensive at the price of 39,000 per year and that’s very important to me. This collage offers 10 different degrees in each course you take! That is amazing, you can take two different courses and still graduate on time, you can still major in each of those fields as well. The part that really jumped out at me was the extra curriculums such as, power sport engine testing, test driving, electrical engineering, and lunch of your choice at your choice of