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re: The Myth of the Wealthy Baw Welder: Welding Won’t Make You Rich
Posted on 9/13/19 at 3:57 pm to Epic Cajun
Posted on 9/13/19 at 3:57 pm to Epic Cajun
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What about plumbers though?
They lay pipe baw
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Posted on 9/13/19 at 3:57 pm to Big_Sur
Every welder I know lives next door to Rand Paul in a gated community.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 3:58 pm to el Gaucho
I dictate it and get my secretary to type all my TD posts
Posted on 9/13/19 at 3:58 pm to Big_Sur
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This post was edited on 1/21/20 at 9:01 am
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:01 pm to The Mick
I’m a CWI and work turnarounds and I assure you we all make easily over 100k a year. However, it comes with a price... We are always away from home and we work 80 to 90 hrs a week..I’m in St Croix Virgin Islands working at the Limetree Bay Refinery right now...The average welder pay for turnarounds or pipeline is around 40 to 45 a hr plus 100 a day per diem.. So if we working 80 hrs a week and Time in half after 40 you can see why 100k is actually a bad year...
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:03 pm to The Mick
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Welders working turnarounds probably make 100k, I’m not positive though.
Depends on how much turnaround work they do. Most of the guys that I know who work turnarounds only work about 8 months a year.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:04 pm to Big_Sur
Obviously you can do very well in them, but the numbers have never supported the OT’s hardon for the trades. People on here act like learning how to weld or be a plumber is a golden ticket to wealth and prosperity.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:07 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Obviously you can do very well in them, but the numbers have never supported the OT’s hardon for the trades. People on here act like learning how to weld or be a plumber is a golden ticket to wealth and prosperity.
The cream rises to the top just like any other line of work. My dumbass cousin just took bankruptcy. The guy I linked above is a millionaire. Both welders.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:07 pm to shadyshane1986
quote:I worked a turnaround right after college for a safety company. I was a hole watcher
I’m a CWI and work turnarounds and I assure you we all make easily over 100k a year. However, it comes with a price... We are always away from home and we work 80 to 90 hrs a week.
, legit that was my title. The welders and inspectors would smoke, sleep, whatever inside the vessel and we had to alert them if their boss was coming up the ladder. I'm scared of heights so it was quite an experience.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:07 pm to ragincajun77
I bet you do know how a dictate college boy
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:08 pm to Big_Sur
Are their incomes boosted by "cash" jobs?
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:08 pm to Big_Sur
You have to be in industry or oilfield. Baws at the local shop aren’t making bank.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:09 pm to Big_Sur
Real baws weld underwater, cher.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:09 pm to Big_Sur
Not all welders are created equal.
Its like giving the average wage of a college graduate and then discouraging someone from getting an engineering degree because college graduates dont make a lot out of school.
Its like giving the average wage of a college graduate and then discouraging someone from getting an engineering degree because college graduates dont make a lot out of school.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:09 pm to Jim Rockford
Right. Just like accountants, engineers, and lawyers.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:13 pm to The Mick
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I worked a turnaround right after college for a safety company. I was a hole watcher , legit that was my title. The welders and inspectors would smoke, sleep, whatever inside the vessel and we had to alert them if their boss was coming up the ladder. I'm scared of heights so it was quite an experience.
I worked two while in college and have an almost identical experience, right down to the fear of heights. And, yeah, frick working 7/12’s for any extended period of time.
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:19 pm to The Mick
Cameras with mics and speakers are being used a lot more now so those lazy fckers can’t sleep and smoke in the vessels anymore
This post was edited on 9/13/19 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 9/13/19 at 4:20 pm to cahoots
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Can't wait to do backbreaking labor all day
The fact that you think welding is “backbreaking labor” makes me think you sit down to pee and probably wear gloves while working out.
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