It took me six months to get through my HVAC courses at the community college.
- At the end of the course, we were required to take a class on HVAC certification.
After taking the class, we had to take the HVAC certification test, which would give us our certificate so that we could become certified HVAC technicians. When I said town to read the certification test, I was a bit confused. Some questions did not seem to have a definitive answer. I walked up to the Proctor and asked if there was a right or wrong answer to every question, and he just looked at me. He simply told me to answer each question with the best answer possible.I was pretty sure I was going to end up with a big fat zero on this test, but I did what he said. I answered each question with the best answer possible that I could find. Two weeks later, I got my test results in the mail. I was about floored when I opened up that envelope. I had gotten every question but one right. The question I answered wrong was a true or false, which should have been easy. I would not let that one wrong answer bring me down. I could go into the local HVAC company, show them my certification, and hopefully get an apprenticeship with them. It was a long six months, and I was ready to be a real HVAC technician. Didn’t matter what anyone else thought, I knew I worked hard to get where I was, and the grade on that certification test proved it.
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