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If I was this kid, I would be attending the mini nationals and letting every deep pocket parent know he was for hire. Sucks but it might work. Other than that, get a job as a motor mechanic and moonlight as a wrench.
I'm not saying that school is a bad route but for example I grew up in New York and had a dream of making snowboard movies when I was in high school. somehow my parents believed in me and let me use the $7000 which was for my community college to buy my first computer and camera. I moved to California and met the pros, the media from there the rest was history… Now it's been over 10 years and my full-time job.
As long as you are 100% committed and focused either route you go, it will happen!
1). Get your MMI Cert. While doing this make as many contacts as you can. "My dad works for..." My brother races for..." Etc.
2). Then move to So cal and start passing out your cards at all the races focusing on the up and coming young fastest kids.. Be professional and always DO WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO
Getting your career going is like a plane taking off. You gotta give it full throttle down the runway until it gets airborne, then you gotta climb and climb until it reaches altitude where the plane basically flies itself and you just gotta steer it.
The other thing to do is go work for Pro Circuit, Factory Connection, etc. and work your way up from there.
My formula for student loans is 50% of your entire first year in the fields income.
Example: nurse makes 48,000 roughly to start. Take on no more than 24,000 of debt for your entire degree. Otherwise you will be paying all your income to the interest shark.
Pit Row
Those schools don't write your ticket. they also don't teach you what you would learn looking over someones shoulder for a week. Not worth getting in debt unless you don't even understand the basics of a 4 cycle engine.
All about finding a mentor and being talented enough to understand what is going on enough to jump right in and be of value and learn as you go. Same as you would need to do AFTER dropping a bunch of coin on a school. May as well skip it. Go listen to the episode of Pulp MX where they discuss this topic (it's a popular one; ton's of kids want to be mechanics). You will notice most of the big names in the industry say they have seen some of the worst mechanics ever come out of those schools.
Good luck.
MMI has close ties to the industry in all forms...so getting in good with those dudes is gonna help you move forward in your career. Meet as many and help out as many people there as you can. You never know who will walk into their facilities.
Understand this is a very competitive industry, so getting that MMI cert is a good start.
When I moved to CA with the dream to shoot snowboard videos I was making $100 per edit and only making 4 per month, so I had real jobs that paid my bills. I would go back to NY in the summer and edit wedding videos. The next winter I was able to make $1,200 a month and it kept growing. Eventually after being around the scene and meeting all the industry(4Years of grinding) I got a job at Transworld. Now 10 years later I'm making enough to buy a house, the toys and live well. The funny thing is that I got the job at Transworld because my friend who I met snowboarding was an intern there, he threw out my name as, "This kid from Big Bear who shoots videos"... For a while I was just, "Evan's Buddy from Big Bear" at the office...
Nothing is going to come easy, but if you want it to happen, you can make it happen...
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