Donald Booth
Founder & CEO, American Institute of Non-Destructive Testing-Donald Booth is the founder…. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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1appearances
13statements
3resolved
1supported
2contradicted
33%fully supported
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Booth: AINDT income share agreements cap student repayment at 1.5x tuition
“Those are income share agreement companies where you'll never pay more than 1.5 the tuition. Okay. So it's 12,000. The max you'll ever pay back is 18.”
Booth: Skilled trades offer superior demand, pay, and durable skills
“When you get into a skilled trade, the demand is so much higher. The pay is excellent and it's a skill that they just can't take, take from you.”
Booth: Front loader heavy equipment operators make $100K annually
“He's running a front loader and making a hundred grand a year and he's in an air conditioned cab and there's a lot of knowledge to moving dirt and moving earth and making it level and operating this equipment.”
Booth: Only 55-65% finish college, and 40% work in their field
“I think like only 55 or 65% finish college if they go to a four-year, and then within 10 years, only about 40% of them are doing what they went to school for.”
Booth: Entrepreneurship is like balancing water on a baking sheet
“Whatever you think it's gonna be is not really what it's gonna be, and you're just gonna have to learn. I always kind of equate it to take a cookie sheet or a cooking sheet where you put some water on it and start walking across the room, and you're just const…”
Booth: AINDT trains personnel for SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin
“We do training for Lockheed Martin, Boeing, SpaceX, Blue Origin you know manufacturing companies across the country, across the world.”
Booth: AINDT achieves a 93% job placement rate for graduates
“We have 93% placement of our graduates”
Booth: Bidding on adjacent trade keywords harms Google Ad quality scores
“And then like on Google ads, if I wanted to try to pull people in that were searching for electrician or welding or HVAC or something very difficult because Google will give you a bad quality score because they'll look at your webpage and say, you don't do any…”
Booth: U.S. and British Royal Air Force use AINDT training
“Creating deeper relationships with the air force and, you know the Royal air force of England orders from us”
Booth: Bought a 40-unit hotel to create private NDT student housing
“I bought this 40 unit small hotel out on the town and I closed it down to the public and remodeled it and created the first private student housing complex for non-destructive testing schools.”
Booth: Building industry coalition with Boeing to promote NDT careers
“That's kind of one of my missions now, is I'm trying to build a coalition of, I'm not trying to, I am, I've got some, like, some people from Boeing and a few other large corporations that want to get behind this and, ah, you know, spread the word.”
Booth: US NDT training is a niche market with twelve competitors
“There's not a lot, but it's pretty niche business. Maybe a dozen other. Ones that I would consider competitors around the country.”
Booth: AINDT charges $12,045 for its full program including student housing
“Back then, I think we were charging them 8000 dollars for the full course. Now we're 12,045, but I have a private student housing included, and a lot of things have grown and everything, obviously, and times and inflation and money.”
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