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re: Thinking about going to technical college - maybe for Welding.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:04 am to High C
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:04 am to High C
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but around here there is a vast shortage of welders.
I think that's pretty much everywhere. Welders do travel for the high dollar jobs... but there are always jobs available around this area.
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Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:06 am to GetCocky11
quote:You know, you can work in a cubicle and still acquire new skills, secure your job, and advance your career. Working in a cubicle does not doom you to doing the same job for 20 years before you're laid off. If that's what you end up doing, then it's your own fault for not taking initiative to advance yourself.
I'm looking at a few of the programs.
Basically, I don't want to work this cubicle job for 20 years, get laid off in my 40s, then have a tough time finding new work because of my age/salary requirements and the fact that I never actually learned a real skill outside of the computer work that I've done.
You have a bleak and, IMO, unreasonable view of what a white collar career entails. You can have a very dynamic white collar career if you want one.
It would be equally easy to focus on the potential negatives of a blue collar job like welding. You can always find something wrong with a potential career path.
With that said, there is absolutely nothing wrong learning a trade and making that your career.
This post was edited on 11/12/15 at 9:09 am
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:09 am to Spankum
Welders can make a good living. They trade that for bad eyesight and health problems from all the toxic shite they breath in day in and day out.
If you want to learn a trade be an instrument tech. They make killer money if they're at all competent and the supply will never reach the demand.
If you want to learn a trade be an instrument tech. They make killer money if they're at all competent and the supply will never reach the demand.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:10 am to GetCocky11
Go be an electrician or an AC dude. They mint fricking money.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:11 am to Broke
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electrician
some of them were making insane money before they cut the solar credits.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:13 am to GetCocky11
If you want to live in a camper and work in FRCs in August, you can make a boatload of money as a welder. Way more than in your cubicle.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:18 am to GetCocky11
Beginning welders are making just shy of $30/hr around SELA.
I'd get certified, and get into the mobile welding side. They make much more money, and work when they want to. I know a mobile welder that makes around $200k/yr and doesn't really work that much
I'd get certified, and get into the mobile welding side. They make much more money, and work when they want to. I know a mobile welder that makes around $200k/yr and doesn't really work that much
This post was edited on 11/12/15 at 9:23 am
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:20 am to GetCocky11
I believe that people with a degree and time in the business world who learn a trade are in a great position to take full advantage of the trade. There are plenty of skilled tradesman out there who don't understand how to create value from their trade. If you go this route, find a trade you can enjoy and also build a business around so you will have others doing the work in a few years.
I wish I understood this when I was younger and before I hopped on this career train.
I wish I understood this when I was younger and before I hopped on this career train.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:21 am to GetCocky11
After years in the industrial trade and trade schools. Iv worked blue collar and now white collar.
All trade jobs typically experience is what gets you the money. Surely being certified will get your foot into the door with a company.
Going into a trade i highly recommend, if the office job is threatened it can be hard to find another meanwhile trade jobs tend to be easier to come by.
Welding can be a very physical demanding job on the body. Depending on where you live jobs are probably available but with welding traveling normally makes the big money. In my experience those who do get non-traveling jobs stay and those can be hard to find.
Id recommend HVAC,Instrumentation,Electrical. Those can open many doors to great opportunities for decent to good money.
Plumbing id steer away from, if you're looking for a trade just to tie you over until you find another office job. Most states require XXXX amount of hours of "helper" experience before you can work on your own and make good money. If your looking to replace the office job plumbing can be great. My uncle is at $127 a hour here in Louisiana currently.
Hope this helps.
All trade jobs typically experience is what gets you the money. Surely being certified will get your foot into the door with a company.
Going into a trade i highly recommend, if the office job is threatened it can be hard to find another meanwhile trade jobs tend to be easier to come by.
Welding can be a very physical demanding job on the body. Depending on where you live jobs are probably available but with welding traveling normally makes the big money. In my experience those who do get non-traveling jobs stay and those can be hard to find.
Id recommend HVAC,Instrumentation,Electrical. Those can open many doors to great opportunities for decent to good money.
Plumbing id steer away from, if you're looking for a trade just to tie you over until you find another office job. Most states require XXXX amount of hours of "helper" experience before you can work on your own and make good money. If your looking to replace the office job plumbing can be great. My uncle is at $127 a hour here in Louisiana currently.
Hope this helps.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:22 am to GetCocky11
Most importantly do something that will make you happy, as well as provide for your family. If you do get into welding, learn to be a good fitter. Lots of guys can run a good bead, but being proficient at reading prints and fitting up the structure correctly will make you highly coveted.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:23 am to southern686
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Plumbing id steer away from,
don't the plumbers who can handle these new blue and red plastic pipes make a lot of money?
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:33 am to MorbidTheClown
I believe you are referring to the new "pex" pipe for water lines.
These days to be a plumber its almost a must. It has gotten too easy to not handle it.
Plumbers make good money.....if they want to just depends on how much work they are willing to do and the type of jobs they accept.
The main reason I say stay steer clear from plumbing is that most states if not all require you be an "apprentice/helper" for XXXX amount of hours or X amount of years before you can obtain a licences to work on your own as a plumber. You would need to check to see what your state requirements are. So if you're looking for job to tie you over while looking to get back into the office this may not be a good idea. However replacing that office job this would be a great option to consider.
These days to be a plumber its almost a must. It has gotten too easy to not handle it.
Plumbers make good money.....if they want to just depends on how much work they are willing to do and the type of jobs they accept.
The main reason I say stay steer clear from plumbing is that most states if not all require you be an "apprentice/helper" for XXXX amount of hours or X amount of years before you can obtain a licences to work on your own as a plumber. You would need to check to see what your state requirements are. So if you're looking for job to tie you over while looking to get back into the office this may not be a good idea. However replacing that office job this would be a great option to consider.
This post was edited on 11/12/15 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:40 am to yccsmf
My brother and I both worked in a steel fab shop during the summers and on breaks while we were going to college. I got a degree in history and have been teaching in the public school system for twenty years. He got a degree in social work, did some counseling and hated it. He went back to steel fab and worked as a fitter for several years. He now is in the office bidding jobs for the company and making twice as much as I make.
Another piece of information. Entry level blue collar jobs are fairly easy to get. If you get in there and are good at what you do, you can advance pretty quickly. I know several guys who work in shops and mills, and they say that they simply can't get good help. Most of the guys that they hire can't even read a tape measure. Useless.
Another piece of information. Entry level blue collar jobs are fairly easy to get. If you get in there and are good at what you do, you can advance pretty quickly. I know several guys who work in shops and mills, and they say that they simply can't get good help. Most of the guys that they hire can't even read a tape measure. Useless.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:54 am to GetCocky11
I'd get in to electrical before welding
This post was edited on 11/12/15 at 9:55 am
Posted on 11/12/15 at 9:58 am to GetCocky11
Learn to weld, then go down to Key West and do the under water welding school
Posted on 11/12/15 at 10:43 am to GetCocky11
Stay in your cubicle.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 10:51 am to Cosmo
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communications degree which provides nothing
My communications degree allows me to be paid while I attend live sport events. Just remember that when you're in your cubicle from 9-5.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 10:52 am to Hoyt
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Welding Booth < Cubicle
Good lord this.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 10:53 am to NYCAuburn
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Learn to weld, then go down to Key West and do the under water welding school
I once read that underwater welding was the most dangerous occupation on earth.
Posted on 11/12/15 at 10:55 am to High C
One of my buddies lives in a camper with his fiance and he welds on the pipeline up in the NE. I play Destiny and GTA with him a few times a week and he doesn't seem to love it, but he makes bank.
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