Career in welding

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Ditto what Frank said. It's hard to comment on somebody's passion, but you have to think long and hard which it sounds like what you are doing. There is stuff all of us love to do and some could do it as a job, some of us it would kill the love of it to do it day in day out. And like was mentioned the setting can be so varied as to be almost impossible to describe.

My last wage slave tour was with a manufacturer and I was in assembly. I did custom fab and welding, but that was not my main job. The welding shop was separate and was shared with the fab shop and paint. It was incredibly hot, dusty, and NOISY on that side. And both shops worked in uninsulated steel building that had swamp coolers that set on the top of the building in the direct sun. If it was over 100deg outside which it often was from May to the end of September, it was way hotter inside and muggy. Then during the winter it was bottled up and if it was 40degF outside it was maybe 45-50 right in front of the heater. And this was for on average $3 over min wage because there was no Union. I don't know where you are, but if you are listening to the hype of the trade schools, beware. Look in your local job listings. If like around here, they often won't tell you the wage just DOE.