re: I want to learn to weld..

Not so long ago, maybe 20 years now, there was a box car manufacturing plant outside of Athens Georgia. They would hire ANYONE willing to show up on time and do what they were told and teach them to weld boxcars. In about 30 days anyone who was going to make it at that plant was welding boxcars on their own. 30 days. Boxcars....subject to all manner of outrageous stresses. The pay was lousy so it was mostly young kids straight out of high school with no experience doing much of anything....but many of them could learn how to weld good enough to stick around building boxcars after about 4 weeks. Its a pretty simple skill at its core. Doing it well is a whole other can of worms....it is about as high level a skill, when done in situations where life limb and property are respected, as being a surgeon...but making a grill is well withing anyone who is not blinds ability...