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Blue Collar StartUp

Episode 60: BOCES, Trade School, and Collision Shops

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Welcome to Blue Collar StartUp the podcast.    
Our Mission is Simple: To facilitate the growth and development of Blue Collar businesses. We will showcase REAL Blue Collar businesses in interviews, and use these stories to help educate and empower the next generation of trades workers to become Blue Collar business owners.   

In this episode, your hosts Michael Nelson of Five Towers Media and Derek Foster of Daigle Cleaning Systems talk with Kaydance about her experience going to the BOCES program in Saratoga, how she landed her job in South Dakota right out of trade school, her family's collision shop, and more!

0:42 Introducing Kaydance
1:20 The BOCES Collision Program
3:04 Why choose this path?
3:58 Kaydance’s parent’s shop
5:44 After graduation
7:45 How well were you prepared?
8:43 The cost of trade school
10:23 Average income
11:12 Long-term plan
12:30 Kaydance’s biggest challenges
12:04 Weekly schedule and utilizing the shop
15:12 Cold weather
16:46 One piece of advice
18:19 Being at school during the pandemic
19:32 Closing thoughts

Details

  • Hosts

    Mike Nelson and Derek Foster

  • Guest

    Kaydance

  • Run time

    20 min 47 sec

  • Air date

    January 15, 2025