He doesn't want to continue his studies. He wants to become a car mechanic trainee.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
汽车修理工
汽車修理工
qì chē xiū lǐ gōng
auto mechanic
Mandarin
无情的地主总是要从佃农身上取得东西,却不肯花几个大钱修理塘坝,让塘干旱,饿死佃农,他们却只知收租。
無情的地主總是要從佃農身上取得東西,卻不肯花幾個大錢修理塘壩,讓塘乾旱,餓死佃農,他們卻只知收租。
wú qíng de dì zhǔ zǒng shì yào cóng diàn nóng shēn shàng qǔ dé dōng xi , què bù kěn huā jǐ ge dà qián xiū lǐ táng bà , ràng táng gān hàn , è sǐ diàn nóng , tā men què zhǐ zhī shōu zū .
The ruthless landlords were always out to take what they could from the tenant-peasants and would never spend even a few coppers on embankment repairs; they would leave the ponds to dry up and the tenant-peasants to starve, caring about nothing but the rent.