I went to college for a year after school to train to be a mechanic... I f*cking hated it! The whole class was a bunch of chavs, the only sound people there (bar one) dropped out less than half way through, the practical was fantastic, the class was the most mindnumbing crap ever, pretty much just copying answers into workbooks... To ease the pain of the theory I'd go and get shitfaced down the pub every lunchtime and usually fall asleep for the rest of the day. I was the only person in the class who passed anything, and I passed everything with top marks (without wanting to blow my own trumpet) but it really was crap. Despite this though, I'm really glad I did it! Although I never made a job of it (because mechanic is a shit job - I tried), I've saved myself 1000's in garage bills!