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I hear some Harley grads from MMI are ok but I would not bet money on it. Maybe there are more success stories out there but they are few and far between.
MMI has good TV commercials.
Perfect example: Last week I got a smoking deal on a 250 from a MMI kid. He had just put $400 into the top-end all with OEM stuff. Put everything back together "to spec", but there was oil burning off the engine & it was smoking white. He was out of funds to mess with it again. Turns out he had pryed up the cylinder from the cases with a screw driver & gouged the cases. Cleaned it up a bit with a file & it now runs perfect.
Its a product and a tittle for consumption.
And don't get one of them to spoon a tire on and off unless you have endless amounts of tubes and about 3 hrs to spare.
Any school is going to have some good folks and some folks that just skated by, that's not in any way exclusive to just mechanics training.
Do you know what they call the guy that graduates med school with the lowest possible grades?
Doctor.....
There are some kids their parents pay for everything and they didn't care what was going on in classes.I paid for mine so I felt I had to learn.
Multi-national corporations, law firms, every professional field does the exact same thing, 3-6 month internships = experience, networking, and potential lead into a career with that company.
Pit Row
We are a motocross family. He was attending college and saw his friends who graduated not getting jobs. He came home and said he wanted to leave college and go to MMI. I fought him on this MMI decision because I knew its a longshot to make it on the pro level but I couldnt deny him the opportunity. I also thought he could finsh college if things didnt work out at MMI.
He Graduated MMI with a 3.93 GPA, won just about every award. He was ranked #2 in his group of 60
He said during orientation (first day of classes) MMI said 50% of the students will drop out.....in the end that was an accurate number. During class they would pull a few kids out for a random drug test, I think kids were thrown out for testing positive. He said about half the kids are serious and half just didnt care. He said MMI was pretty hard especilly the manufacturer programs in the end, but he also worked 35 hours a week changing oil at a toyota dealership to pay for his rent in Florida, his days were 6am to 9pm every weekday. When MMI had their recess all the students went partying, my son went to Race Tech suspension program for a week....he wanted to do everything to get an internship and saw other students as competition.
INTERNSHIPS
He worked free internships at JGR, Rockstar Suzuki and worked for a minimum salary for Tedder during the outdoor season. This is the only way you can make it into a fulltime mechanic gig. He was fortunate that Jeremy Albrecht, Bill Keefe & Matt Tedder gave him a chance to intern or he would be working at a dealership wrenching now. He is now living his dream, doing what he loves. He is currently living with Honda's top SX rider..........dreams can come true but all the stars have to be lined up and free internships are a reality.
MMI EMPTY PROMISES
One thing that I was irritated about was MMI promising my son about getting him on a Pro Team. They promised him internships, job leads etc upon him graduating. Upon graduating they didnt do anything for him, the guy wouldnt even return his calls or emails........whats more frustrating is that now he got his job MMI keeps trying to contact him so they can use his story for recruiting more students. HE NEVER RETURNS THEIR CALLS OR EMAILS.
Anyway, there are some things to know about MMI, they do have a great program for the right student, they are also good at making empty promises and collecting tuiton.
No pay
All the glory of working for a guy that prob won't make mains
Best ad I've seen for a job all year
Its a numbers game with trade school grads and apprentices. We took over a thousand apprentices over a three year span, three hundred made the 3-4 yrs to graduate into our welding field.. Sounds like schools like wyotech,mmi, etc are ok if your there for the right reason. I dont agree with putting them thru when they are not progressing, their has to be legitimate skills and testing to move thru a program. If its all about the dollars like you guys say, whats the point. Look how many business owners in this thread with horrible experiences with mmi grads.
So essentially the taxpayer is funding a big part of this pseudo-education for profit business.
I personally know several guys who went through the Barron Institute and they also heard all kinds of promises, once they signed and paid all that disappeared. They all stated that the instructors were sub-par and that no one gave a shit about what you did they just pushed everyone through. NO ONE FAILED.
He started from day one rebuilding the entire motor himself, splitting cases and putting the entire bike into two huge rubbermaid containers and rebuilding for the following weekend. I was amazed at his ability to do this after MMI. His rider runs East Coast 250 and made all mains. He has had only one DNF in his mechanic career because a fork actually got bent after a hard hit on a triple, not his fault.
Last XMAS he showed up at our house with 2 brand new CRF450's and worked thru the holidays busting them down, rebuild the engines. He kept one bike for parts and built the race bike for Anaheim1 450 (They ran some 450's before East Coast started) I went to A1 and it was cool seeing him and his rider on the line with big boys.
He doesnt even have time to talk to me at the races...and I went to about 10 races this year.
These guys are under extreme pressure for low paycheck. He is on salary and has worked up to 90 hours some weeks.
Tough love, low pay!
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