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<blockquote data-quote="RMKrider1" data-source="post: 4421165" data-attributes="member: 542776">Sounds like a smart guy you talked to! He&#039;s right everybody is a self proclaimed welder. I&#039;ve seen hundreds of &quot;welders&quot; try and fail the initial test before getting hired. Usually the same story &quot;I welded in high school and my dad has a welder at home so I&#039;m pretty good&quot;He&#039;s also right on the never getting rich part. But if you are willing to travel you can make a very good living. I spent 3 months this last winter in Wyoming on a big pipeline job working 12 hour days Mon. thru Sat. and 10 hours on Sunday which is 82 hour weeks at $75.00 hr. and $100.00 day per diem. If you do the math thats a little over 6 grand a week. That was also my own truck and weld machine and I also had to supply fuel and consumables. It was also colder the s#ht there was a week straight there that the daytime highs were around -10.If you want to stay local, And I don&#039;t know where you live but I wouldn&#039;t expect more then 20-25 hr. If you like to travel there are tons of jobs out there. Ethanol plants are going up all over the country and the oil field industry is pretty big as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RMKrider1, post: 4421165, member: 542776"] Sounds like a smart guy you talked to! He's right everybody is a self proclaimed welder. I've seen hundreds of "welders" try and fail the initial test before getting hired. Usually the same story "I welded in high school and my dad has a welder at home so I'm pretty good" He's also right on the never getting rich part. But if you are willing to travel you can make a very good living. I spent 3 months this last winter in Wyoming on a big pipeline job working 12 hour days Mon. thru Sat. and 10 hours on Sunday which is 82 hour weeks at $75.00 hr. and $100.00 day per diem. If you do the math thats a little over 6 grand a week. That was also my own truck and weld machine and I also had to supply fuel and consumables. It was also colder the s#ht there was a week straight there that the daytime highs were around -10. If you want to stay local, And I don't know where you live but I wouldn't expect more then 20-25 hr. If you like to travel there are tons of jobs out there. Ethanol plants are going up all over the country and the oil field industry is pretty big as well. [/QUOTE]

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