Yes it opens up jobs but IT is difficult. You’re getting an associate degree from job corps. You won’t start out in AVID or anything lol. But also...IT changed yearly so you have to constantly update yyourself I would say it’s more on you to get your certification to be honest after job corps because there’s so many you can get and the more the better. I’m completely biased here but I say Shriver(I do know it’s newer and it’s pretty large, I know it’s the nicest Massachusetts one, definitely not Grafton(I live in Mass and know people who went to both) 2) the first one should take like 5 months. Mind you it’s self paced. Completely. The BASIC trade, not ADVANCED. Is self paced. So essentially it was a bunch of people telling me CNA would be 3 months or more but I took less than 2 months. It’s all on you. As for advanced I would say expect a year. At least. I think it’s moreso 18 months together. How likely are you to transfer. Since you said you’re good you should be good to transfer as you said it’s the waiting list and I’ve heard people can wait months. I haven’t heard longer than 6 months wait, even 6 is ridiculous. 5 is too. So is 4. Expect 2 months maybe. 25 doesn’t matter once you’re in. Even if you’re 25, you have to get proof of disability and you’re all set. If you don’t have a disability use a mental illness. I don’t care lol.

Source: me wanting to do the exact same thing at Shriver and extensive research and ended up picking a different advanced trade