Auto Repair Personal Statement

I am interested in auto repair as a career because I love to work with my hands and I like taking on challenges. The collision industry is growing and it will only continue to grow, manufacturers will design new vehicles every year, keeping my job interesting, challenging and fun. What I hope to achieve in the collision industry is open a custom shop with my cousin, he is currently attending Lincoln tech to be a gas/diesel technician.
I enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard after I turned 17; after I graduated high school in May 2012 I went to basic training and advanced individual training to be a machinist and welder. I returned home April 2013 not knowing what I wanted to do, even though I enjoyed welding I didn’t see myself as a welder for the rest of my life so I enrolled in Austin Community College to study criminal justice and started working security part time. I passed all of my classes I took but my life was still missing something.

I was extremely fascinated by the mangled vehicles that dealers would buy and days later pull in the parking lot with the same vehicle looking brand new. I wanted to learn more I had never been introduced to that side of vehicles; I had never worked on vehicles or even knew vehicles could be brought back to life. I became friends with a few body shop owners and they would occasionally invite me to their body shop, I enjoyed watching vehicles getting repaired. After going to body shops for a year I got tired of watching the vehicles getting repaired from the side lines and I wanted to be the one bringing those vehicles back to their original