This probably isn’t for you DonovanDwyer, but for anyone else perusing this thread, i see that Reed Ghazala offers various levels of apprenticeship/education programs taught by him in Cincinnati. Yeah, you pay money for it, and more importantly you would invest time in the learning, but it sounds like it’s a lot of fun if you are so inclined. The program sounds like it is very individualized, and it seems to me to be very reasonable in cost.
http://www.anti-theory.com/apprentice/index1.html
On the other hand D.D. you could see if the circuit-bending ‘god’ might be interested in helping you too.