Free training, free food, free roof, free clothes....

Free training, free food, free roof, free clothes. Hard to beat. But it wears you down. Going to trade from 8 to 4 everyday. Doing the same thing everyday. The food was good when I first got here. The haven't changed anything. I've been here 6 months and it's just rotating menus. The dorms are hit and miss. If you have an RA you don't dream about kicking into traffic you're lucky, even luckier if you have roommates you can tolerate. Or you might be me, still up at 11pm because your roommate can't be quiet when he's watching crap on YouTube. The 46 bucks a month doesn't make it worth it to be here. This is a closed campus. You can't leave at the end of the trade day. You can only leave Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you come back for any reason you can't leave again until the next Friday. Bring your own blankets and for Buddha's sake bring your own pillows, you're going to be sleeping on a mattress directly on the springs. Twin Size. Some of the staff are alright, they genuinely care and understand that it sucks here and try not to make our time harder. Others... See us as annoying obstacles who can't behave. They don't understand the stress this place places on us. They don't think about the fact that we can't go home at the end of the day, they can do whatever they want at the end of the day. They haven't eaten the same food for the past 6 months (or in automotive's case 2 1/2 years). They lack empathy and basic decency. And they suck at what they do. I've also noticed sexism here. Mostly in the older staff, very preferable to women, it's funny when it happens to me because it's never anything to big. Like an instructor having a 20 minute conversation with me and my female friend but only acknowledging me twice and staring at her the whole time. It's still jarring when I feel like I'm less than someone else though. Especially so blatantly. But I can still enjoy it because it's nothing serious. You should keep that in mind though. The first 5 weeks you're here you won't be going into your trade. And on the 4th week you're on Kitchen Prep cleaning their kitchen. And no you're not getting paid. And yes it is mandatory. Keep that in mind as well. I know I've only said bad things but this is still an amazing opportunity like I said in the beginning. It just REALLY falls on you to make the most of it. If you can deal with all that for some free education this is the place for you.