I started working as helper on a fab shop, had never in my live used a grinder. The guy eventually tried to teach me how to weld but that didn't work... He knew how to weld but had no patience nor did he know how to explain... With time I grown to like the job and decided to learn, did a lot of research, RUclips is a great source of information... Now almost 5 years later I have my own fab shop and I love what I do
@@brianpatrick8441 I don't know if that's the case... I'd like to think it's not, besides the problems I had with him I like to think he was being true to me... There's things he didn't teach me though, I never had interaction with the clients, never explained to me how to do an estimate or how to charge for a service, those could be the case you said or just how the things developed
100% facts. I went to welding school at night while working a full time job. I rigged up a truck and I'm now a mobile welder. Learning everyday, ain't always pretty but it'll hold (till it breaks)
I went to local community College, i don't know how it is now but if you are poor enough they will actually give you money for going there. When I went full time for 2 semesters I got like around 1200 for one semester and 1600 for the other. I think Obama was in office.
But who wants to spend two years just to learn with sub par instructors and having to take general education classes??? If I want to weld why the hell do I have to take English and social studies AGAIN!!!!!!!
I went to community college for a structural welding course. It didn't cost anything at all in fact it was all paid for by federal grants. It got me far enough that I can run a decent bead and learn the rest on my own. I agree any construction worker is far more useful in the field than someone who went to school without a fabrication course. I also agree the welding tips and tricks channel teaches everything that the course does.
I took welding in boces my junior/senior year in high school. 100% free I would absolutely recommend taking a skills trade in high school if offered. Even if your going to college, always have a certification skill trade to fall back on will never hurt u. That’s what I’m going to push for my kids to do.
I started as a boilermaker apprentice 23 years ago, now an independent like yourself for the past 16 years. I tell anyone who is interested in becoming a welder to skip paying for school and get paid to learn.
Nice to hear of someone else who hasn't done it the conventional way. Us autodidacts gotta 'stick together'! Thanks dude, even though I can already weld and fabricate, I still greatly benefit from your advice. No-one knows everything, right?
I was lucky enough to get funding for school to learn welding and just got my first welder and looking to start a welding business been watching your channel to get an insight on what it takes to be a mobile welder
I sincerely wish you all the best! I hope you love what you are doing. Cause then it would not just be a job, but an adventure! People like you inspire me. Thank you!
Im a certified welder with a 6g pipe stick cert and a unlimited dual shield cert. I did go to school for welding at 17. I got my apprentice about the same time. Im 35 now and although iv been on jobs that you were supposed to be certified. I never have been asked for my certs. Iv worked on bridges, heavy equipment, and high pressure steam and oil. If your good enough and you meet the right people you’ll never need that cert.
Do what I did. Learned basics in the FFA. Didn't touch a welder for 25yrs or more. Started with a cheap decent welder and practice. Find a good welder that's well rounded and listen and ask questions. I promise you it go along way.
Very Good Advice! Apprenticeship is always a great way, sometimes the best way, to learn anything. Just start welding. A welder is far less expensive than any school. The will and want to do a great job is the most important thing.
Honestly this was inspiring to me because I’m self taught and learning by the job. I have been thinking that I needed to go to a school and get official certs in order to be successful or in order to get jobs but this gives me a lot of hope to be able to make something of my welding without the school. Thank you.
Thank you man,I highly appreciate you took the time to post this video,nobody on youtube explained this to me im thankful,and I'm just an 18 year old hoping to get a job in this when I move out,but for now I'm going to practice with a machine I have in my garage
Here Here! Kids need to hear this. Going in to debt for information that is free everywhere for everyone that want’s to learn most skilled trades is your first financial mistake in life. Information is not hidden away in a collage or a trade school. When you get your degree and think your God’s gift to the welding industry you will find out very quickly you know next to nothing and the learning has now just begun. Be humble.
Thats why the community college can work out for some because some young men cant do a thing like anthony said read a tape measure read a print etc. way cheaper than a for profit trade school Its not just burning rod. The union trains too not for everyone but you learn a lot
Welding is a awesome job and if your lucky get hook up in a good place like a friend he dont even how to weld well and he knew a big contractor and now his making a lot of work a course money with like 12 persons working for him with 6 trucks and new home I was like 😱 what a change in 1 year
So I go to a technical college and I think I payed $500 for like 2 years just because I had a 3.0 in high school which is easy to get I made c’s so school if cheap is great. I have used so much of their supplies that I would have spent thousands on what I’ve used and the practice and knowledge I’ve got in insane. But my school is the top in the state and around it so I’m very luck most schools aren’t as good as mine. So it really depends, all of my instructors have been in the field for years. Love the videos keep it up!
This video was very educational on your experience and makes me even more excited to be a welder! Also, Jodi from Tips and Tricks is another fantastic page I follow!
Well said man, I wento butte college. Wasn't very expensive, but ony a foot in the door. Didn't make much starting out with the certs I didn't actually need till now, as I'm a structural steel contractor, 20 years later. Fabrication experience is eaened.
You're right, find a school that teaches the techniques and skills you need in the real world or at least in the field you're going into. I went to a Community College because it was the only school around (still had to drive 1.5 hours one way) and they focused on 3/8" plate, 2" pipe, and 6" pipe. That's it. No aluminum or other metals. Their reasoning was that if you could weld pipe in all positions you could weld anything. I think they were focusing on job placement as well since the school is in a very industrial area. The instructors were hit and miss. Most knew their stuff but none of them were very good teachers. You had to go in with self-discipline focusing on welding as much as possible for the duration of the class. I learned mostly by welding for the full 4 hour class and not socializing. The instructors hardly ever checked on you, especially if you looked like you knew what you were doing, and they were usually grumpy and unapproachable. The classes were mostly attendance based and many of the students were there for an easy class credit that would get them government money for going to school - basically a super easy job. I learned a lot because I was determined to learn a lot. I would be upset if I had used money out-of-pocket to pay for that school (I used the G.I. Bill). The best unsolicited advice I can give is: do your research on the school to see if it fits your needs, go in determined to learn as much as possible, and see if they have any small week-long classes that would give you a massive head start to launch you from amateur to professional much more quickly. This particular school had week-long classes in aluminum MIG/TIG, welding fab, oxy/acetylene, etc. I know this was kinda long but I hope it helps someone.
Hey! I am a new subscriber, thank you so much for putting this video up! It’s great to hear how you got started in the trade! I am trying to get started and it is nice to hear your story of where you began! Thank you!
I got certified in 1995 and never used my certifications. Got certified on MIG, TIG, Stick, in all positions, and brazing. I only use my welding skills around the farm.
Good video. I went to a boces to learn to weld. It did help me make employment contacts but I agree with you. Getting into debt for something you may not get into isn't a good idea. In hind sight I wish I just learned on my own or starting from scratch at a shop
I agree to a degree...I went to school but it wasn't expensive and it was 6 months 40 hours a week of learning all the processes and shop tools. The drawback.....no hands on fabrication experience. So I had to learn and am still learning it OJT. I think many kids think they are automatic fabricators and experienced welders after getting a few AWS certs...they aren't. I almost think the schools would be better off teaching fabrication in addition to basic welding, if not more of the fabrication skills. BTW...Florida plates but you sound like you're from PA.
@@MeltinMetalAnthony I went to community college bounced around between Automotive and Machine shop wound up going to work Machining spent about 10 years in trade then I got out and went to plumbing new homes later getting into commercial plumbing and finaly going to pipefitting working with a lot of weld pipe and fabricating all the cutting beveling building supports but now retired and never got into the welding aspect. I really enjoy all the differant things there are to know and no regrets on going to school its stayed with me my entire life. but You gotta get some experiance work as a shop helper or something or an aprenticeship. but a full on private weld school I think you might miss out knowing how to fab
Get your self into a light and heavy plate fabrication shop. Learn how to read blue prints. Learn how to fit jobs from the blue prints. Press brake roll machine pantograph line burner plasma cutter. Learn all you can from that shop. I did back in 1985 best thing i ever did. I know work in the trades at an airforce base, and do welding on the side. You can go to school for the basics, but there's nothing better then hands on. Love these videos.
I went to a trade school and the head of the welding program was a cwi. No body passed a bend test who didn’t earn it. I got out of the army not knowing shit about welding and now I’m starting my own business
I subscribed to MMA for the entertainment and real workday welding experience and advice you provide. It is cool to recognize the real OG, the grandfather of YT welding instruction and leaning, Jody Collier (welding tips and tricks). Jody's industry experience and teaching ability make him a must watch for beginning to advanced weldor instruction. I also learned from Lance Edwards (chucke 2000) who was my favorite until some unfortunate sharing of his opinion got him tarred and feathered on YT. So you, MMA, keep up the videos to, about and for welding. You are one of the hand full of reasons I sit for hours wasting time watching welding on my PC rather than really doing it (as much as I should). Otherwise...go F,,, yourself - well you know the saying! LOL
want to vocational school in high school and learn how to stick welder and meg welder the kids at regular school thought I was an idiot now I make more than most of them that went to college now I’m into boiler operation
I can always tell on the jobsite who has gone to school and who hasn't. School and work experience go hand in hand. If you really don't want to go to school, you can join a trade union that does welding work and they will train you. You will make good money in the first year. Here in BC, tuition is pretty much reimbursed.
Bingo!read books ,start simple . Weldors are happy for the most part are happy to show you what you want to know. Probably not owner operators as much,self preservation you know.
best training will be from an old master, but finding one will be a challenge, plus too many B.S. artists, but if find a real old master, you listen, I had 2, and I wish I had paid more attention, they are long gone, 1 was in his 70's in the mid 1980's the other was nearing 65. in my youth I wanted to learn torch, which I excel at it. it was out dated back then, but teachers were very proficient with, but all other processes I am just ok with. I just in last 2 years retired my favorite welding hose,1 hose was black, they discontinued black hoses in mid 1970's, I had to go to normal modern red & green, but always loved psyche value of my older hoses.
I just noticed that you have the same crane that I just picked up. Can you do a video walk around on it? I had to rebuild allot of stuff on mine and want to see if it's more or less correct
do u have to have experience to go to an apprenticeship because i know close to nothing about welding and i want to do the regular then move into underwater welding?
Hi Anthony. I’ve been a full-time pastor for the past 12 years and am looking to leave vocational ministry and begin a new career. I’m 46 years old. I am very interested in a welding career. I currently live in Asheville, NC but am seriously considering relocating to Charleston, SC. How would you suggest I go about learning to weld, gain experience, etc. in that area? On the coast as you know. Are there specific types of welding you would suggest I pursue in a coastal region? Thank you so much Anthony.
Hey man. Just watching your videos and love the ideas you share about welding business. You are a good man! But this content right here i have a little bit confused. Not going to school or just get apprenticeship? Does not the apprentice program have to go to school? And in my opinion ,schooling is good too learning not just about the hands on practice of different processes but also learning the metallurgy and theory behind of what we do on our daily basis. Just give you example; aluminum cant be welded on steel. As a welder we should know why and not just because we are told not to.
Hey, if you're a vet then use your G.I. Bill and get the Pell Grant. Get your school paid for and get yourself paid. Use GIB and PG to buy all your equipment and be ready to start off when you're done with school.
@@MeltinMetalAnthony I'll admit that I paid someone good money to handcraft a resume and suddenly I start getting calls. It's a bad system, but it's the only one they know.
I started working as helper on a fab shop, had never in my live used a grinder. The guy eventually tried to teach me how to weld but that didn't work... He knew how to weld but had no patience nor did he know how to explain... With time I grown to like the job and decided to learn, did a lot of research, RUclips is a great source of information... Now almost 5 years later I have my own fab shop and I love what I do
Sometimes the owner wont teach someone everything if he knows you have self employment in your future
@@brianpatrick8441 I don't know if that's the case... I'd like to think it's not, besides the problems I had with him I like to think he was being true to me... There's things he didn't teach me though, I never had interaction with the clients, never explained to me how to do an estimate or how to charge for a service, those could be the case you said or just how the things developed
How did you make your own fab business im trying to do the same
@@Onyxrocks2022 I started buying tools while I was employed and then started doing work he couldn't /wouldn't on my free time, there's not much to it
100% facts. I went to welding school at night while working a full time job. I rigged up a truck and I'm now a mobile welder. Learning everyday, ain't always pretty but it'll hold (till it breaks)
Was you welding at your job while you was in school?
@@STUPIDstutz5 No I was working pest control while going to school and welding on a ranch on the weekends
Does it pay well?
Local community colleges are the best option if they have a welding program much cheaper than those high price schools
Classes at my school are super cheap
I went to local community College, i don't know how it is now but if you are poor enough they will actually give you money for going there. When I went full time for 2 semesters I got like around 1200 for one semester and 1600 for the other. I think Obama was in office.
And you can have it paid for.
Anyone who’s a veteran can use the GI bill and if your a disabled veteran you can use chapter 31
But who wants to spend two years just to learn with sub par instructors and having to take general education classes??? If I want to weld why the hell do I have to take English and social studies AGAIN!!!!!!!
I went to Missouri Welding Institute and I learned every process and got trained extensively. I think I spent 8k. Best decision I've made.
I went to community college for a structural welding course. It didn't cost anything at all in fact it was all paid for by federal grants. It got me far enough that I can run a decent bead and learn the rest on my own. I agree any construction worker is far more useful in the field than someone who went to school without a fabrication course. I also agree the welding tips and tricks channel teaches everything that the course does.
I took welding in boces my junior/senior year in high school. 100% free I would absolutely recommend taking a skills trade in high school if offered. Even if your going to college, always have a certification skill trade to fall back on will never hurt u. That’s what I’m going to push for my kids to do.
Thank you for not suggesting school and sharing your experience It is helpful.
I’m going to be working for a shop as an apprentice. I’m looking forward to this new opportunity.
3 years of high school and then community college. A lot of hood time!
I started as a boilermaker apprentice 23 years ago, now an independent like yourself for the past 16 years. I tell anyone who is interested in becoming a welder to skip paying for school and get paid to learn.
yup, that's what I did!
I got an associate degree at local community College and I agree with you, finding a job as a helper or entry level would have been better I think.
boilermakers, UA pipfitters welder is good too
Definitely because in schools your in a lil booth while if you as a apprentice they show you the real world and what it’s about
Great advice. I'm half way through my apprenticeship now. I'm in the process of starting my own business now.just got get those first jobs coming in.
Stay diverse and don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to people who might need your service
Good luck brother
Nice to hear of someone else who hasn't done it the conventional way. Us autodidacts gotta 'stick together'! Thanks dude, even though I can already weld and fabricate, I still greatly benefit from your advice. No-one knows everything, right?
I was lucky enough to get funding for school to learn welding and just got my first welder and looking to start a welding business been watching your channel to get an insight on what it takes to be a mobile welder
I sincerely wish you all the best! I hope you love what you are doing. Cause then it would not just be a job, but an adventure! People like you inspire me. Thank you!
thank you! people like you inspire me!
Im a certified welder with a 6g pipe stick cert and a unlimited dual shield cert. I did go to school for welding at 17. I got my apprentice about the same time. Im 35 now and although iv been on jobs that you were supposed to be certified. I never have been asked for my certs. Iv worked on bridges, heavy equipment, and high pressure steam and oil. If your good enough and you meet the right people you’ll never need that cert.
thats some awesome real world experience! if you ever want to share a little more email or instagram me.
Do what I did. Learned basics in the FFA. Didn't touch a welder for 25yrs or more. Started with a cheap decent welder and practice. Find a good welder that's well rounded and listen and ask questions. I promise you it go along way.
Very Good Advice!
Apprenticeship is always a great way, sometimes the best way, to learn anything.
Just start welding. A welder is far less expensive than any school. The will and want to do a great job is the most important thing.
Honestly this was inspiring to me because I’m self taught and learning by the job. I have been thinking that I needed to go to a school and get official certs in order to be successful or in order to get jobs but this gives me a lot of hope to be able to make something of my welding without the school. Thank you.
you don't need to go to school for certs. you can just find a testing facility local and pay to do the test
Thank you man,I highly appreciate you took the time to post this video,nobody on youtube explained this to me im thankful,and I'm just an 18 year old hoping to get a job in this when I move out,but for now I'm going to practice with a machine I have in my garage
Here Here! Kids need to hear this. Going in to debt for information that is free everywhere for everyone that want’s to learn most skilled trades is your first financial mistake in life. Information is not hidden away in a collage or a trade school. When you get your degree and think your God’s gift to the welding industry you will find out very quickly you know next to nothing and the learning has now just begun. Be humble.
Thats why the community college can work out for some because some young men cant do a thing like anthony said read a tape measure read a print etc. way cheaper than a for profit trade school Its not just burning rod. The union trains too not for everyone but you learn a lot
Welding is a awesome job and if your lucky get hook up in a good place like a friend he dont even how to weld well and he knew a big contractor and now his making a lot of work a course money with like 12 persons working for him with 6 trucks and new home I was like 😱 what a change in 1 year
🥇
So I go to a technical college and I think I payed $500 for like 2 years just because I had a 3.0 in high school which is easy to get I made c’s so school if cheap is great. I have used so much of their supplies that I would have spent thousands on what I’ve used and the practice and knowledge I’ve got in insane. But my school is the top in the state and around it so I’m very luck most schools aren’t as good as mine. So it really depends, all of my instructors have been in the field for years. Love the videos keep it up!
This video was very educational on your experience and makes me even more excited to be a welder!
Also, Jodi from Tips and Tricks is another fantastic page I follow!
Hell yeah! Great job on the video just what I needed to hear thank you!
Well said man, I wento butte college. Wasn't very expensive, but ony a foot in the door.
Didn't make much starting out with the certs I didn't actually need till now, as I'm a structural steel contractor, 20 years later. Fabrication experience is eaened.
You're right, find a school that teaches the techniques and skills you need in the real world or at least in the field you're going into. I went to a Community College because it was the only school around (still had to drive 1.5 hours one way) and they focused on 3/8" plate, 2" pipe, and 6" pipe. That's it. No aluminum or other metals. Their reasoning was that if you could weld pipe in all positions you could weld anything. I think they were focusing on job placement as well since the school is in a very industrial area. The instructors were hit and miss. Most knew their stuff but none of them were very good teachers. You had to go in with self-discipline focusing on welding as much as possible for the duration of the class. I learned mostly by welding for the full 4 hour class and not socializing. The instructors hardly ever checked on you, especially if you looked like you knew what you were doing, and they were usually grumpy and unapproachable. The classes were mostly attendance based and many of the students were there for an easy class credit that would get them government money for going to school - basically a super easy job. I learned a lot because I was determined to learn a lot. I would be upset if I had used money out-of-pocket to pay for that school (I used the G.I. Bill). The best unsolicited advice I can give is: do your research on the school to see if it fits your needs, go in determined to learn as much as possible, and see if they have any small week-long classes that would give you a massive head start to launch you from amateur to professional much more quickly. This particular school had week-long classes in aluminum MIG/TIG, welding fab, oxy/acetylene, etc. I know this was kinda long but I hope it helps someone.
Thanks for your honesty and sharing your journey.
Hey! I am a new subscriber, thank you so much for putting this video up! It’s great to hear how you got started in the trade! I am trying to get started and it is nice to hear your story of where you began! Thank you!
I got certified in 1995 and never used my certifications. Got certified on MIG, TIG, Stick, in all positions, and brazing. I only use my welding skills around the farm.
Good video. I went to a boces to learn to weld. It did help me make employment contacts but I agree with you. Getting into debt for something you may not get into isn't a good idea. In hind sight I wish I just learned on my own or starting from scratch at a shop
Hindsight is 20/20 they say
I agree to a degree...I went to school but it wasn't expensive and it was 6 months 40 hours a week of learning all the processes and shop tools. The drawback.....no hands on fabrication experience. So I had to learn and am still learning it OJT. I think many kids think they are automatic fabricators and experienced welders after getting a few AWS certs...they aren't. I almost think the schools would be better off teaching fabrication in addition to basic welding, if not more of the fabrication skills.
BTW...Florida plates but you sound like you're from PA.
ZeroPoint definitely Pennsylvania HaHa probably Philadelphia. All good ,,,,everyone comes from somewhere !
Or south Jersey !
👍🏻
I agree!! And not for nothing I’d take a guy who can fabricate over a guy who can only weld. And they should teach basic skills
@@MeltinMetalAnthony I went to community college bounced around between Automotive and Machine shop
wound up going to work Machining spent about 10 years in trade then I got out and went to plumbing new homes later getting into commercial plumbing and finaly going to pipefitting working with a lot of weld pipe and fabricating all the cutting beveling building supports but now retired and never got into the welding aspect. I really enjoy all the differant things there are to know and no regrets on going to school its stayed with me my entire life. but You gotta get some experiance work as a shop helper or something or an aprenticeship. but a full on private weld school I think you might miss out knowing how to fab
Get your self into a light and heavy plate fabrication shop. Learn how to read blue prints. Learn how to fit jobs from the blue prints. Press brake roll machine pantograph line burner plasma cutter. Learn all you can from that shop. I did back in 1985 best thing i ever did. I know work in the trades at an airforce base, and do welding on the side.
You can go to school for the basics, but there's nothing better then hands on. Love these videos.
I went to a trade school and the head of the welding program was a cwi. No body passed a bend test who didn’t earn it. I got out of the army not knowing shit about welding and now I’m starting my own business
I subscribed to MMA for the entertainment and real workday welding experience and advice you provide. It is cool to recognize the real OG, the grandfather of YT welding instruction and leaning, Jody Collier (welding tips and tricks). Jody's industry experience and teaching ability make him a must watch for beginning to advanced weldor instruction. I also learned from Lance Edwards (chucke 2000) who was my favorite until some unfortunate sharing of his opinion got him tarred and feathered on YT. So you, MMA, keep up the videos to, about and for welding. You are one of the hand full of reasons I sit for hours wasting time watching welding on my PC rather than really doing it (as much as I should). Otherwise...go F,,, yourself - well you know the saying! LOL
Thanks for this video Anthony, appreciate your content!
Great, Great video Anthony!! Love your channel!
I fabricated for a few years and am going to buy a welder and see if I can further my career and maybe start my own business one day. If
Good luck to you! You got this
Good honest video.
Thanks!
Great videos! You’re always on point.
i dont know but i noticed people look down on people who went and got some education. I guess its all on mentality.Hard but nothing is impossible.
420 subs. Congrats. Best amount of subs since 69.
Just found your video.This is joe from detroit. Love your video's.
Awesome! Thank you!
If I can't afford an engine driven welder quite yet, what wattage generator would you suggest running a portable welding operation from?
Great video with very good information, thanks bro helped alot 🙏🏻
That is a crazy expensive welding school. Its like $5-7000 for welding at a community college. Where were you looking at that it cost $25-40,000?
UTI and the Fab school
want to vocational school in high school and learn how to stick welder and meg welder the kids at regular school thought I was an idiot now I make more than most of them that went to college now I’m into boiler operation
I can always tell on the jobsite who has gone to school and who hasn't. School and work experience go hand in hand. If you really don't want to go to school, you can join a trade union that does welding work and they will train you. You will make good money in the first year. Here in BC, tuition is pretty much reimbursed.
Bingo!read books ,start simple . Weldors are happy for the most part are happy to show you what you want to know. Probably not owner operators as much,self preservation you know.
Theres meat on the bone for everyone. I don’t mind sharing
He’s not lying folks take advantage of welding in your highschool if they offer it get free certs
That's me! Just tell me when and where.
best training will be from an old master, but finding one will be a challenge, plus too many B.S. artists, but if find a real old master, you listen, I had 2, and I wish I had paid more attention, they are long gone, 1 was in his 70's in the mid 1980's the other was nearing 65. in my youth I wanted to learn torch, which I excel at it. it was out dated back then, but teachers were very proficient with, but all other processes I am just ok with.
I just in last 2 years retired my favorite welding hose,1 hose was black, they discontinued black hoses in mid 1970's, I had to go to normal modern red & green, but always loved psyche value of my older hoses.
Cheers mate, great vid 👍
I just noticed that you have the same crane that I just picked up. Can you do a video walk around on it? I had to rebuild allot of stuff on mine and want to see if it's more or less correct
do u have to have experience to go to an apprenticeship because i know close to nothing about welding and i want to do the regular then move into underwater welding?
I would suggest a school in this instance. I had no interest in that career path. very dangerous, and im better paid as a general repair welder
Hi Anthony. I’ve been a full-time pastor for the past 12 years and am looking to leave vocational ministry and begin a new career. I’m 46 years old. I am very interested in a welding career.
I currently live in Asheville, NC but am seriously considering relocating to Charleston, SC.
How would you suggest I go about learning to weld, gain experience, etc. in that area? On the coast as you know. Are there specific types of welding you would suggest I pursue in a coastal region? Thank you so much Anthony.
Hey man. Just watching your videos and love the ideas you share about welding business. You are a good man! But this content right here i have a little bit confused. Not going to school or just get apprenticeship? Does not the apprentice program have to go to school? And in my opinion ,schooling is good too learning not just about the hands on practice of different processes but also learning the metallurgy and theory behind of what we do on our daily basis. Just give you example; aluminum cant be welded on steel. As a welder we should know why and not just because we are told not to.
Say I have 2 MIG certs, do I NEED to get stick/TIG certs to do it mobile on my own ?
GRINDER im doing that now
Hey, if you're a vet then use your G.I. Bill and get the Pell Grant. Get your school paid for and get yourself paid. Use GIB and PG to buy all your equipment and be ready to start off when you're done with school.
nice call out to wtat
Are u strictly self taught and do you have a license?
I'm certified from a 16 week program .... I'm tring to get my toes wet n its hard to find a job welding as a lady
I follow a lady on IG that gets a good amount of work. Maybe ask equi.fabricationllc
Anyone have experience with harbor freight welding machines?
I'm not going to suggest it or no, but if you don't intend to get a 4 year degree an applied 2 year degree is almost as good for HR purposes.
Fuck HR
@@MeltinMetalAnthony I'll admit that I paid someone good money to handcraft a resume and suddenly I start getting calls. It's a bad system, but it's the only one they know.
I went to school and really didn't get much from it besides debt
sorry to hear that, I hear it too often
Georgia payed me to go to welding school lol
Georgia resident here, wondering how you managed this.?
@@dougyeargin5804 i applied through tech school. Fasfa does it all
It’s all about u
Wow u self educated
i am sefe loned i loned her on the farm
You have no idea what you are talking about with welding schools 😂🤣
You will never make as much money as a ticked welder in my experience the ticket will give you the higher wage, I would say go to school
Fantastic advice from beginning to end
I love Jody bought tons of stuff from weldmonger store.
i have takeing dot nys i have brg test unlimted thick s i have that for or senc 1980