I pull up to the water-box and sit in complete silence as I concentrate and focus on what is about to happen. I look to the stands to see the support full look from my mom, dad, and sister, Iris Chavez, who had also graduated from Roosevelt High School. I get the call to pull up to the staging tree, do a quick burn out to clean off my tires, and the smell of burnt rubber becomes my new air-freshener. Then I pull up to the stage lights and see who I’m racing, it happens be a young kid in one of parent’s Camero SS. The car was really nice and I knew that it was fast, because I could hear the lope from the upgraded cam shaft in the motor. I don’t mind racing people using there parents cars, but I know that I have worked on my own car. A person who is a real car guy has a number of distinctive qualities. I have them all: my hands are always dirty, I don’t think that I have a clean pair of jeans, and I think that some people think that my cologne is high octane gas.
Ever since I can remember my dad has fixed his own vehicles; so, whenever I could, I would help him on his projects. He had showed me that you did not have to take your car into a shop if you could do the work yourself.
I have done all the work to my car and am proud of it to. That is why I want to pursue my career as an automotive technician. I plan on taking the Ford FACT program and also taking a class to achieve most of the ASE certifications. UTI (Universal Technical Institute) will help me reach my goals. The campus that I am attending is out in southern California and is one of the major technical schools in the country. When I graduate with my degree I am looking forward to getting employed with a major Ford dealership or having a job with a performance shop. The way that I will meet my goals is by completing my schooling and working hard to gain more knowledge about vehicles.
Since I know that I will be going to Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga, California I know that it will cost about $36,000 for my technician certification. My parents have always been hard workers, and they have given me what I have and I am grateful and I appreciate that, but times are tough and they can’t afford to put me through school. That’s why I am looking for some funding to supercharge my life and finish that important race to finish college. Finishing college would be just like finishing my race. The adrenalin rush you get when you’re running your car to the limit at the end of the track. The sound of the engine winding down as you let off the gas to turn and pick up your time slip. Then the feeling of accomplishment as you reach with your trembling hand out the window and pick up your time slip; when you see how much you have improved your time. That’s the same feeling that I want to experience in a few years after I finish college and look back at my life.