I've been in the field for a few years, and I can say that the instructor's assessment is misleading. It's not wrong that it takes a lot of work to get an ET degree. In fact, you'd be studying harder than most students. What videos like this don't let on is that, while the jobs are there, they are woefully low-paying, in the neighborhood of $17/hr. That's less than many unskilled jobs. Worse, it's really hard to use an ET degree to pivot into a different, better-paying field. If you're smart enough to do this, you can easily pull off something like Collision Repair, which typically involves far superior compensation. How pitifully low-paying that ET jobs are is something that more students need to be warned about. Someone who went into this without knowing any better would be setting themselves up for some hard disappointment.
I've been in the field for a few years, and I can say that the instructor's assessment is misleading. It's not wrong that it takes a lot of work to get an ET degree. In fact, you'd be studying harder than most students.
What videos like this don't let on is that, while the jobs are there, they are woefully low-paying, in the neighborhood of $17/hr. That's less than many unskilled jobs. Worse, it's really hard to use an ET degree to pivot into a different, better-paying field. If you're smart enough to do this, you can easily pull off something like Collision Repair, which typically involves far superior compensation.
How pitifully low-paying that ET jobs are is something that more students need to be warned about. Someone who went into this without knowing any better would be setting themselves up for some hard disappointment.