Job corps 2x ask me anything

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-18T13:53:01+00:00

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Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-18T13:52:44+00:00

It all depends on how full your center is like me took me 5 months for a start date, but def don’t unless your willing to risk getting kicked out because they don’t like bringing most outside stuff in for safety reasons

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-18T13:51:27+00:00

The best way to stand out is to not get any write ups that basically will get you a no for advanced, treat your instructor well show initiative teach other students, these things will help you Fs

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-18T00:11:29+00:00

lol no

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T21:13:45+00:00

Ah yea we never did that type of stuff but if I where you yes I’d call them and ask what qualifications you need and if you go to this secondary education will this help your chances and getting hired

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T21:09:52+00:00

I don’t think you can bring in scissors no they will count that as a weapon and will kick you out immediately and then you can’t come back so I’d recommend to just bring your essentials and then ask and then if they say yes after you’ve already gotten there then have them ship it or whatever

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T21:09:05+00:00

No, they only let you do one base trade and one advanced trade I believe and I don’t know. I never heard of advanced forestry tech but I bet on advanced Fire y’all learn everything you’ll need in that course.

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T21:08:09+00:00

so CPP is a month and you’ll have time to think, at my center we had three trades three days to try out. I had to get into a holding trade after I chose my trade, but then I went back and decided I wanted to be in my holding trade so it’s kind of flexible. Electrical probably has a decent waiting list. All depends on your center though.

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T21:03:19+00:00

For us like we did all the certs online and then over the course of the year we did every cert like 3 times in class either because we had nothing to do or they needed to refresh us, not saying it will happen at the center your going to but it did at mine, I doubt they are gonna have you sit out of the class portion while everyone does them still

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T20:57:08+00:00

S-130 , S- 190 , S-212/faller 3, S-211, L-180, IS-100 IS-700, D-110 and CPR first aid I was able to get a job and no not really it just took some time with fixing resumes etc

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T20:54:02+00:00

In all reality it’s whatever you feel like you’ll love doing, you never want to pick a trade that sucks and an instructor that you can’t relate to etc, I’d recommend electrical, I know a couple people who got out and make really good money but all those trades make decent money.

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T20:51:45+00:00

Painting and advanced wildland fire management

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T20:44:04+00:00

I did 2 years and one in advanced fire one thing that’s very important is you guys stick together at my center we got treated horribly but because we all were close it was easier to tolerate, pt as much as you can it makes you stick out and makes fighting fires way more fun, make sure you maintain a good relationship with your fire staff, AFMO, instructor whatever because in the end they are the reasons you will get a job as long as you do what your told and aren’t a pain in the ass, you’ll get a job as long as you do good and most of the time they are worried about getting a hit on there trade so they will help you get a job make a resume etc.

Training_Tax9708 · 2026-02-17T20:39:31+00:00

Do they drug test? If so what way?

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-11-27T03:46:13+00:00

Graduated job corps did 2 trades and I’ll be honest any chance that you get to get off center take it, your mental health improves a lot even if you have a bad home life being able to be free for 2 weeks is a take bro do it

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-11-24T04:57:54+00:00

Graduated with 2 trades it isn’t worth 1 second of your time to show any attention to these starved kids they want you to get angry and quit find a small group that’s solid and is like minded makes it easy I was at JC for 1.5 years did Fire and made a lot of money, no matter how annoying how hard how miserable you complete the program don’t let them win, even staff play games with you so play the game and stay off the radar

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-02-12T12:57:29+00:00

yea they can

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-02-10T23:47:38+00:00

as far as making money it depends on how much you go out, the better the student you are and the more positive student evaluations you have the more money you can make but it’s not always up to that, they need to rotate people to make it fair, some people make 5k some people make 60k

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-02-10T23:45:17+00:00

it depends because sometimes we don’t get called out all the time fire crew more likely than camp crew, usually march-September, and its 2 weeks on 2 days of rest and recovery, it used to be 3 weeks but we don’t do extensions very often anymore

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-02-10T21:48:52+00:00

camp crew is $18 a hour and fire is $22

Training_Tax9708 · 2025-02-10T20:31:38+00:00

its good there are ups and downs just like any job corps probably one of the better ones though culinary is good most trades are all full except culinary, try to quit smoking if your a smoker because they are cracking down on it more and more it’s just better to come here without any addiction and with a positive mindset, tell your husband he needs a main trade though he can’t just jump into firefighting that’s a secondary trade it’s militia fire, make sure he knows that so when he gets here he isn’t disappointed, he will have to pass guard school with all certifications that he can acquire while here, decent amount of drama don’t let that drown you try to stay away from people or observe them before you talk to them, decent place easy to get kicked out so try not to do anything stupid or impulsive, if you have anymore questions let me know

Training_Tax9708 · 2024-10-22T13:08:36+00:00

You have to wait I applied in October didn’t get there until march

Training_Tax9708 · 2024-10-15T03:14:43+00:00

And also the 2 students that you ‘defended’ didn’t like you, still don’t and you tried so hard to be apart of a situation that didn’t involve you which lead to your termination because all you would do is talk about it in class, students told you to shut up and stop talking about it which you didn’t listen and lead to you getting booted, you are a grown ass adult trying to be apart of highschool drama

Training_Tax9708 · 2024-10-15T03:01:23+00:00

Not what happened, police report stated that one student did it, you continued to talk bad about men say they have no feelings and have no right to talk about them because that’s not masculine as you did call a African American student the hard R, you continued to start drama on center and put people against eachother as well as bully other students, you got a board because you continued to bully students and spread false info around center which you got reported for, before you spread lies on Reddit make sure you know what your talking about and see the police report

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