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If you go to school full time, you spend all your time going to school and studying. You are beyond broke because you can't work many hours, not to mention the cost of school and books. No idea what is going on in the world as no time to watch TV.
Then you go to school and learn stuff. Then you graduate and hopefully get a job.
Hint: There may be optional classes you can take. Cars these days can have 3 local area computer networks, up to 80 separate computers, and need software upgrades using computers.
Might want to go to several local auto dealers and talk to the shop managers. Ask what classes they would like to see someone have under their belt. Ask if electronics, computer, microcontroller, and computer network knowledge would be a plus.
when i went there in the late 70s for my degree, the automotive program was a two part class. you had an hour lecture, and an hour lab. in the lab portion you would actually assemble and adjust real systems from real automobiles. take the transmission class for instance. in the lab you would assemble and adjust say a chevy turbo 350 automatic. in my time there they had a Q-see where you watched a tape, and then assembled the parts indicated on the tape. you would build the transmission step by step until such time as you could do the whole rebuild without using the tapes. it would then be put on a dyno to test if your work was done properly. if the trans shifted properly then you got a passing grade on that rebuild. you had to build a certain number of transmissions for each grade you wanted. in my time if you built four, then you got an A. i got a B in that class.
the instructors there all have at least 5 years experience in the field they are teaching, and most have much more than that. most of my instructors had at least 15 years in working shops.
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