I am studying to become a welder

Good pay which becomes amazing pay as you gain more experience and skills.

Very hard on your body though. There's a reason why people in it retire early, and why pay rates for some of the more specialized welding positions are so high.

describe hard on body work

you have to lift a ton of shit and vape some dangerous metal fumes. hours can be rough too.

it's a nice career, unfortunately it is rife with nepotism. my province only has 80 welding licenses which are only freed up when their license holder dies (which doesn't happen often) there is a huge waiting list, i checked a couple of years ago and there were over 25k people on it. and signing up is pointless because according to the rules of the trade union the first son of a license holder can claim his father's license within 72 hours of his death. and of course trying to work without the license is illegal.

I used to weld pipe. I was constantly lifting(well a side of the pipe), pushing, and pulling pipe that can weigh 400 pounds. Long hours. 10 hour days were the norm, but sometimes It would be 12-13. If you have poor air circulation the fumes will start to get to you.

It's a hard job. Always tired. It was somewhat rewarding though. I can look around my city and state, see a building and know I made the pipe in there. Overall wasn't for me though

you got a bonus for doing over time at least?

1.5x pay. Sometimes my boss would pay me a couple hundred extra under the table if I worked a lot of overtime that week

You have to be a contortionists to find the most welding position. Older guys I know all pop NSAIDs like candy and have arthritis. Also to earn the big money you have to travel across the country.

Theirs always the automated side of welding.

Absolutely. It's good honest work and girls think it's cool. I have a friend who used to be my neighbor, he was making $22/hr doing welding for a construction company before he moved back to Kentucky. Depending on where you find yourself, it can be a really easy job too. My friend told me that some days he would only do like an hour of work, then dick off the rest of the time, and still get payed for the full day. They kept him around because he was the only competent one at that company.

>They smoked a fuck load of weed
damn where do you live? They drug-test everyone here

The heavy industrial outdoors stuff pays well and is always in demand but it's real hard on your body.

absolutely not. the type of people you will have to work with are top tier normie/ultra chad scum of the earth. you will want to commit murder murder murder suicide everyday of your life.

fuck off fake robot faggot nigger, fuck off back to facebook n reddit and dont ever come back you filthy fucking cocksucker

Why the fuck do you need to study welding. Isn't it just putting pieces of metal together?

No pick another trade it's cool but it's guaranteed bad lungs are probably blindness and deafness
oh and plenty of burns

Enjoy dying before 50

>here, dumb dumb, take these two wittle pieces of metal and make em into one wittle piece of metal

>good job, dumb dumb, heres $30 an hour and lung cancer

this is whats wrong with the economy

you have autosm
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Any manual trade is going to have a bunch of energy drinks. Boomers drinking Monsters is just a meme though: they just chug coffee and occasionally use a 5 hour energy. It's mainly the zoomers who drink energy drinks.

What kind of life do you originally live?