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GreyBubbleGum · Mar 15, 2012

Dana said: ↑

No matter what else you do, you need to get the GED. It's just a piece of paper, but without it your job prospects are pretty much limited to flipping burgers, stocking shelves at Wal-Mart, or mowing lawns. A college degree is less necessary-- I've known some very good designers who had none-- but it helps. If nothing else, the degree gets you where you want to be faster than working your way up through lower level jobs. In the eyes of a hiring manager, a degree, if not absolutely required, is a [partial] substitute for experience.

If you already have good mechanical skills, you might look for a job a job with a company that builds machinery as a technician or machine assembler. There are also machinist/toolmaker apprenticeship programs, presumably in partnership with a trade school, though I don't know much about them. Note that you're still going to need that GED to get into the trade school.

Don't get hung up on CAD. It's a useful, even necessary, skill for an engineer, but it's just a tool, no different really from a drawing board and T-square. Some schools try to sell you training leading to a "career in CAD", but there really is no such thing if you don't have the basic design and drafting skills.
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Thanks. I'm going to go look for a job first. As soon as I get one, I will take the GED test as fast as possible.

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