I started at a university in mechanical engineering, I made it one year before I was told I couldn’t come back. I went to a tech school and wanted to be in the electrical program but it was full. Found that there was a 3 year option to start in refrigeration and AC for 2 years and come back for a third year for the electrical degree, so I took that route with the industrial electrical option.
I got both associates degrees and had job offers in both fields but turned down the plant electrician job at a sugar beet refinery because it was 50 miles from where I wanted to live with the then girlfriend. I took a job as an HVAC apprentice. It’s a good job but it has its slow times, especially the in between seasons.
Looking back I wish I would have went the electrical route but I’m to old to start another apprenticeship. HVAC is a good career but I would steer the young man towards electrical.
