Heya i am working at a alum fab shop making alum oil pans and valve covers and going to a tech school all day for welding.
i had expierence tig welding aluminum at work and picked up carbon steel faily easy. havent welded on any stainless yet.
stick arc and mig came super easy.
i have been tig welding carbon pipe for the last month or so. i got it down. i can run a nice root pass and i can run the cap.
i can and have run joints that would pass job tests. just havent mastered the technique. still sort of iffy.
i am sort of torn on what to do. staying around here, work at the shop i am now, i make 8.50$/hr now and will go up once i start producing welds that can be sold. all i do now is fabricate and bend the parts and weld the rails which get milled and machined anyways.
or i can try to pick up a pipe welding job, go ont he road and make over 20$ and hour. but i would be afraid of being away from home. i also think there is a pipe job about 80 miles away that stays in house and tigs pipe on rollers and they make 20 i think.
just getting some opinions from some of u welders if there are any. what sort of jobs do u have and what are u making? it just seems hard to find good jobs.
i had expierence tig welding aluminum at work and picked up carbon steel faily easy. havent welded on any stainless yet.
stick arc and mig came super easy.
i have been tig welding carbon pipe for the last month or so. i got it down. i can run a nice root pass and i can run the cap.
i can and have run joints that would pass job tests. just havent mastered the technique. still sort of iffy.
i am sort of torn on what to do. staying around here, work at the shop i am now, i make 8.50$/hr now and will go up once i start producing welds that can be sold. all i do now is fabricate and bend the parts and weld the rails which get milled and machined anyways.
or i can try to pick up a pipe welding job, go ont he road and make over 20$ and hour. but i would be afraid of being away from home. i also think there is a pipe job about 80 miles away that stays in house and tigs pipe on rollers and they make 20 i think.
just getting some opinions from some of u welders if there are any. what sort of jobs do u have and what are u making? it just seems hard to find good jobs.