What I found in all manufacturing industries wielding included- Its all about offering the most value and making the biggest impact. Learning new processes and finding ways to do a 4 week project in 2 weeks. When you follow this strategy the people you work for will love getting the product faster and you get too add in more jobs annually as a business owner. Remember- The quality of life you life today in America is from manufacturing, not custom jobs.
This year my shop slowed down .. I ended up joining a friend's part time who started after me ... Advertising and location has the biggest impact on my situation . Northern Illinois as well ..
Sylmar, CA here. I've only been a welder about 17 months. They had me doing a lot of helper stuff before they let me start welding 80% of the time. I was laid off 4 months ago and it is SO hard. I've been to a few places but they wanna pay $16-19 an hour. And they're 18+ miles away. Honestly it had been slow for months prior to them letting me go and I'm now seeing it wasn't just us.
Yeah its definitely a lot of places. That's why most cant afford to pay good. in California we can make more money working at McDonalds than we can destroying our lungs and bodies..
Here is food for thought, some father and son team has been I guess that they made there way up and down the street putting up custom strair railings (some look that they are custom welded) and I think they ride up and down the streets looking for customers they never had any railing out on the front door enterences or they are wood and rotted away.....and this small father and son team has mad a killing around my neighborhood!!! SO HERE IS MY THOUGHT GET TOGETHER AND GET TO KNOW YOUR HOME BUILDERS IN YOUR AREA AND INTRODUCE YOUR SELF THAT YOU CAN DO CUSTOM ENTERANCE RAILINGS instead of the dead wood approach.... AND PLUS IT MAY LEAD TO OTHER WORK WELDING STRUCTUAL OR FRONT ENTERANCE GATES Liked#4 N Subscribed!!!
I myself, have been welding & fabricating for over 25 years and a business owner for a little over one year. It's a grind, but the quality of your work and standards along with work ethics go along way in procuring work. I totally agree and Believe in entrepreneurship, but the market is way oversaturated. This industry or trade field has become like landscaping is during the summer time where has everybody with a lawnmower and a weedeater has a lawn service business. So if you have a Harbor freight generator / welding machine and a grinder you're a welding and fabrication specialist go start your business today. "I say sarcastically" Like you said the lesser experienced and the ones will fizzle out in time.
I’m a hobby welder but full time mechanic on my families equipment rental fleet -scissors, booms, forks, mini dirt work,,,, and all the trades we rent to are slow except massive projects that have been in the works for years
It's been slow in NC lately, too. If I didn't do mechanic work also I would be done. Concrete has always been feast or famine, I'm used to it now. It'll come around, just gotta hold on.
It's not just fabrication struggling it's every business look around large companies are shutting there doors .companies are moving to other countries ect
yes sir.. i have some other businesses I'm working on currently. Getting ready to hopefully hang up welding. At least to focus on doing my own personal projects for fun instead of for others.
My father worked in steel his entire life, from welding and building bridges to working at steel mills and building steel blast furnaces. Having worked at union jobs, to non-union jobs, every place he worked folded up until the last place, a blast furnace place downsized and moved a lot of production to Mexico. Over 55 years of working in steel, he left and went to work at a medical warehouse, made as much as he did in steel. Over that 55 years I saw environmental regulations, automation, de-skilling, outsourcing, and in-sourcing causing the steel industry to shrink long term year after year, as a whole, since the late 1970s. This is not new. Each year the pie gets a little smaller. It is a horrific head wind for anyone getting into the industry. A wise man enters an industry that is growing, not one that is ultra competitive and shrinking. There just is not enough money in it to justify entering that industry. My family struggled for years as the industry was shrinking, and it is still shrinking. The pie gets smaller, and so its a race to the bottom, and it is a negative sum game. The real economy is struggling and getting worse by the year (with the exception of AI and automation and wall street) and the stock market soars. There are few real opportunities where a man can get ahead with hard work anymore. The deck is stacked, the game is rigged, and the table is tilted. Nobody in office, republican or democrat, cares about the working man, the middle class. The politicians and the rich tech bros will take everything of value, as George Carlin said: they already own all the important land, own all the stocks, and have bought all the politicians, and pretty soon they are going to come for your retirement money, they want it back, they want it all back, they are coming for your social security money, and they will get it.
I’m freaking slammed! I’m behind, can’t keep up but keeping up. Chicago summertime, slammed. Market you ass off, flyers, deals for new customers, take pictures, knock on doors. Learn to communicate accurately. Educate your customers. Good luck!
I grew up in the NW burbs, in TX now slammed as well. What kinda work are you doing up there? I know the unions have most of the industrial work locked down. You doing custom stuff?
custom wielding does not make big money. Production or manufacturing large counts of the same product makes the big money long term. Ideas of service include truss manufacturing, fencing or gates, trailers and anything that's popular
Definitely slowed down just a little, like just now, enough ive actually been looking into some "marketing" why not
The content here is very helpful, very well explained and detailed. Keep it up guy, I really appreciate all the help 👍🏻
Thanks, will do!
I was 49
Thanks fir the knowledge
It’s worth millions
No problem!
What I found in all manufacturing industries wielding included- Its all about offering the most value and making the biggest impact.
Learning new processes and finding ways to do a 4 week project in 2 weeks.
When you follow this strategy the people you work for will love getting the product faster and you get too add in more jobs annually as a business owner.
Remember-
The quality of life you life today in America is from manufacturing, not custom jobs.
This year my shop slowed down .. I ended up joining a friend's part time who started after me ... Advertising and location has the biggest impact on my situation . Northern Illinois as well ..
Suck to hear but at least hes got some work for you.
Sylmar, CA here. I've only been a welder about 17 months. They had me doing a lot of helper stuff before they let me start welding 80% of the time. I was laid off 4 months ago and it is SO hard. I've been to a few places but they wanna pay $16-19 an hour. And they're 18+ miles away. Honestly it had been slow for months prior to them letting me go and I'm now seeing it wasn't just us.
Yeah its definitely a lot of places. That's why most cant afford to pay good. in California we can make more money working at McDonalds than we can destroying our lungs and bodies..
Here is food for thought, some father and son team has been I guess that they made there way up and down the street putting up custom strair railings (some look that they are custom welded) and I think they ride up and down the streets looking for customers they never had any railing out on the front door enterences or they are wood and rotted away.....and this small father and son team has mad a killing around my neighborhood!!! SO HERE IS MY THOUGHT GET TOGETHER AND GET TO KNOW YOUR HOME BUILDERS IN YOUR AREA AND INTRODUCE YOUR SELF THAT YOU CAN DO CUSTOM ENTERANCE RAILINGS instead of the dead wood approach.... AND PLUS IT MAY LEAD TO OTHER WORK WELDING STRUCTUAL OR FRONT ENTERANCE GATES Liked#4 N Subscribed!!!
This is always true. I’ll talk about this method in the next video
I myself, have been welding & fabricating for over 25 years and a business owner for a little over one year. It's a grind, but the quality of your work and standards along with work ethics go along way in procuring work. I totally agree and Believe in entrepreneurship, but the market is way oversaturated. This industry or trade field has become like landscaping is during the summer time where has everybody with a lawnmower and a weedeater has a lawn service business. So if you have a Harbor freight generator / welding machine and a grinder you're a welding and fabrication specialist go start your business today. "I say sarcastically" Like you said the lesser experienced and the ones will fizzle out in time.
Well said! Hopefully it mellows out.
I’m a hobby welder but full time mechanic on my families equipment rental fleet -scissors, booms, forks, mini dirt work,,,, and all the trades we rent to are slow except massive projects that have been in the works for years
This is in Boise Idaho, Californians second home 😂
Yeah I believe it lol
It's been slow in NC lately, too. If I didn't do mechanic work also I would be done. Concrete has always been feast or famine, I'm used to it now. It'll come around, just gotta hold on.
Sucks to hear. Guess we just got to push through
It's not just fabrication struggling it's every business look around large companies are shutting there doors .companies are moving to other countries ect
yes sir.. i have some other businesses I'm working on currently. Getting ready to hopefully hang up welding. At least to focus on doing my own personal projects for fun instead of for others.
Could you make a video about balancing social media and work? How much time per week you spend recording, editing, responding, etc.
I will put it on the list!
My father worked in steel his entire life, from welding and building bridges to working at steel mills and building steel blast furnaces. Having worked at union jobs, to non-union jobs, every place he worked folded up until the last place, a blast furnace place downsized and moved a lot of production to Mexico. Over 55 years of working in steel, he left and went to work at a medical warehouse, made as much as he did in steel.
Over that 55 years I saw environmental regulations, automation, de-skilling, outsourcing, and in-sourcing causing the steel industry to shrink long term year after year, as a whole, since the late 1970s. This is not new. Each year the pie gets a little smaller. It is a horrific head wind for anyone getting into the industry. A wise man enters an industry that is growing, not one that is ultra competitive and shrinking. There just is not enough money in it to justify entering that industry. My family struggled for years as the industry was shrinking, and it is still shrinking. The pie gets smaller, and so its a race to the bottom, and it is a negative sum game.
The real economy is struggling and getting worse by the year (with the exception of AI and automation and wall street) and the stock market soars. There are few real opportunities where a man can get ahead with hard work anymore. The deck is stacked, the game is rigged, and the table is tilted. Nobody in office, republican or democrat, cares about the working man, the middle class.
The politicians and the rich tech bros will take everything of value, as George Carlin said: they already own all the important land, own all the stocks, and have bought all the politicians, and pretty soon they are going to come for your retirement money, they want it back, they want it all back, they are coming for your social security money, and they will get it.
I can agree very much. Thank you for the awesome comment!
I’m freaking slammed! I’m behind, can’t keep up but keeping up. Chicago summertime, slammed. Market you ass off, flyers, deals for new customers, take pictures, knock on doors. Learn to communicate accurately. Educate your customers. Good luck!
Good to hear!
I grew up in the NW burbs, in TX now slammed as well. What kinda work are you doing up there? I know the unions have most of the industrial work locked down. You doing custom stuff?
@@cjgibbons5850 yes all custom stuff.
custom wielding does not make big money.
Production or manufacturing large counts of the same product makes the big money long term.
Ideas of service include truss manufacturing, fencing or gates, trailers and anything that's popular