Well said. An apprenticeship or having a good mentor is so important. Having these is what teaches you the speed and the shortcuts plus the reasons why.

I never noticed how awful most welds were until I started welding.

Outstanding! There is so much more to “real world” welding than striking an arc or pulling the trigger. I always love when someone asks what I do and I tell them I’m an Ironworker and immediately they say, “oh you’re a welder.” I almost take insult to it, but I then realize what type of a gift or art it truly is to be brought up through a trade and how little the percentage of people out there that actually are compassionate about creating things and solving problems. My hats off to ya, keep the videos coming, and I appreciate you sacrificing a lot of your knowledge so others don’t have to travel the hard road. You are a leader. Think I may have to order me a hat or two!

Lately I’ve been thinking about getting into welding. This video gave a lot of insight I was looking. Thank you

Amazing advice beast! I use this same work ethic in my healthcare career and so many new grads and older employees comfortable in their positions are in desperate need of this type of attitude adjustment. I’m going to school for welding now while working as a PRN doctor of physical therapy so that I can move out of healthcare and into fabricating and welding. Your channel has provided so much insight into the career. Keep up the amazing videos

Outstanding Video young man, love what you said and how you said it. I've been welding 43 years now and still Love it. Its a great career, but it's what you make it. Good luck in your business. Look forward to your next video.

I like your style. You came out honest

I got the same set up . dodge ram 1500 . Lincoln ranger 225. tool chest and tanks . started out a year and a half ago . I got my welder in 2017 and its not easy lol but I have fun and scored some good and fun jobs . I went to community college and learned how to weld . I learned in high school but high school and community collage are way diffrent in there welding programs . I paid $175 per class for a semester . weld 15 16 and the code classes . I learned in 15. joints and welded with 6010 and 16 I learned 7018 and learned about weld grooves and weld symbols . its nice knowing how to grove. I've done it many times on heavy equipment . I took intro to tig as well . so I can get by . I know how to run innershield alot of KZfaq and reading my txt books . I did drop out of the code class . I am looking to get into the pipefitters union to score some pipe certs and get experience and try and move out into the oilfields .i learnd fabrication before I went to school for welding. I worked in a few fab shops that built off road trucks . so that kind of pushed my mind into metal and how to work with it . but all never get into off road again . it was a bad and good experience but a very tuff job to do . sometimes you get paid or its going to be 3 weeks late .

Nice UA469 here 16 years in and starting my own welding business. I have my eye on where I want to be in 5 years. Great videos. You got a new sub.

look idk much about welding other than what's pushed on Instagram. I do see how hard the work is and how demanding it is. I'm a hands-on worker always have been. I just been a little lost and i see welding as a good thing to focus on to better my future. i know its a good career and it can provide good income. its demanding and I certainly feel like my work ethic can help strive in this type of work. right now, I'm attending school doing professional development and I'm learning a lot about the networking part much more, but I'm almost done, and the actual welding course is going to start soon. when it comes to working with my hands, I'm not really worried but I know there's more to just welding like you stated in the video. so going into welding I know where i really need to focus. this video was insightful and i really do aspire to be a good welder after these next 9 months so till then I'll be watching your video and many others on KZfaq to learn as much as while attending this school.

99.9% of this I can full heartedly agree with but I will argue with the part about welder pay. Should someone just out of school make the same as someone who has been there for 10 years hell no! They earned that right to their pay! But they need to be paid fairly for what they can do! I had 11 years of construction experience working for my dad but because it was for family no one around here takes is seriously! I went to school graduated top of my class! Could weld better than half of the guys there. And no one around here thinks a welder should be paid fairly! Every shop around here(mostly job shops) start you off at minimum wage or barely above it! Which ain’t right there is no way a stick mig and tig welder should make less than $15 an hour! That being said if you have the means like I do with my rig. And like you do you are ahead if you have a good head on your shoulders and the construction experience like I do to go out to your surrounding construction companies and pass out cards, you would be surprised how much they will call you to sub contract out to them.

Awesome video, it deserves a hell of a lot more views.

And another thing to remember is if you go to school and then take a break or are in the workforce and have to take a break for a while and you don’t weld know that your welding abilities will suffer as a result! So don’t be cocky just because you made good welds beforehand! I had to take a break for year for the most part and I’m having to get back in the swing of things and I noticed doing trying to do videos it shows that I’m a little rusty and that is even mor exacerbated by me not used to welding around a camera. So remember people stay humble!

First off that is the coolest name and logo! ❤️Second, Brandon sent me your way and what a cool coincidence since my husband and sons are getting ready to start learning to weld (oldest son is in classes) to build their own go cart. 👍😊

I have to agree about how a weld looks, currently an apprentice navy welder at a shipyard. We burn 15lbs of wire some days, it has to look good and follow navy standard however not pretty. We have to roll and get the job done. That’s why they make a grinder, put enough solid metal in as good as you can and scrap it up with a grinder and spot welding.

Best video I've come across

Excellent, absolutely an excellent video with some great advice and perspective!

Keep making videos man u got awesome content. Let's see some actual welding work bro!

Thanks so much for this video. You give the good and the dirty. I want to be a welder although I'm late in the game and started a family. Based on your experience, to build that great income, it's more likely that I would work on the pipelines in Alaska or working underwater away while being away from home and family, right?

I took welding classes my senior year I didn't get certified because they shut down the schools down for covid I started working for my cousins tree service I bought a couple of used welders and now I weld most of the time we need to weld something and he's letting me use his shop for side jobs here and there

great information and your channel is helping me alot before im going into welding school coming up soon

You hit the nail on the head. You're not a real welder unless you know the metallurgy and how to do things the right way, the first time, everytime in the end. Up in Canada we call those welders who can't pass a CWB test "Backyardigans". If they're not willing to better their own skills for safer welds / workmanship, stick to slapping steel together at home as people's lives can be in jeopardy.

Thank you very much. Excellent info, even if it’s just helping confirm I’m on the right track.

Love the vids please dont stop. Going to school for welding right now

What if you’re a 63-year-old woman who is in pretty good shape and you want to learn to weld? Is that crazy? I’ve always been a waitress, but I can’t do that anymore. Well maybe I could but I don’t want to. I want to learn a skill, that would enable me to take care of myself. Also when I was younger, I was quite artistic, so I thought maybe welding might be something I could be good at?

another great video, but following dreams is not always the best. when having fun, life is great, whether money is or not. trust me. if I had not pushed to be 110% dedicated to what I wanted to do, put people & friends aside just to be the best, & I lost myself in a few ways. then gave up on everything I ever loved, & just worked to buy "toys" to take my mind off my life, it wasn't until this year I started to forgive myself & to try to get back into something different I always loved as well. ill PM you what actually happened to me. one of my best friends dad started teaching me to weld when I was 9 years old, im 51 now, & I had a few awesome teachers from old days, I was an alcoholic student, that loved welding, but was more interested in being a car geek. I wish I had paid more attention to have pumped them from more, as there were in their upper 60's & 1 was 74 years old, & I am still amazed at some of the cast iron torch welding to repair engine blocks, he was a ship builder during WWII. but to this day was most knowledgeable person I met. I know I have a lot to learn, especially the math, im the one that fits it piece by piece, like you don't like, lol.everyone get your head on straight, stay away from Alcohol & drugs, I never did "drugs", but way too much alcohol, & was too much into street racing in my youth and natural adrenaline during racing was my drug. don't ask me what welding I want to see, lol, I will always say find a cast iron block with a cracked cylinder, cut away water jacket, drill, grind, weld crack, preferably with oxygen acetylene, then weld broken pieces of water jacket, then allow to cool in heated sand pit, with bottom of charcoal & covered with charcoal. but not something I want to do unless beyond rare, but I always loved the craziness of the prep, & preheat, cooling with heat, & a overnight hot soak in a heated sand pit. then machining engine, sometimes sleeving cylinder. and then seeing it work. I did a MF tractor engine for a friend different, but still saved a burnt out block, burned out between 2 cylinders, which was run for years with a blown head gasket, I used stick, but had used torch & stick, & had nothing to loose, & it is still being used 22 years later. 1 of only a few I ever done, & don't want to do another. always risky. & that head gasket was why tractor was cheap, but it was believed to be a bad injector, but upon getting it rebuilt, fund out had to go deeper, & my friend bought a bigger nicer tractor than could afford, but like your other video, he bought based on price, but I fixed it, & we still friends, & haven't asked him this year, but I know he was still using it last year, & he would have mentioned it if it failed or he traded it in.

I been a welder for 8 year pipe fabrication pipeline pipe work some structural. Started as a helper and I wana say buddy you speak the truth i don’t think anybody can put it any Better.

I went to a community school for a welding course. It sucked, and i already knew more than they taught, but i did learn print reading... big joke there is every job I've had as a welder (in Illinois) has not ever used weld prints. I was always lucky to at least get build prints... anyway ive learned most of what i do by working the body shops, talking to old timers, and youtube. I always try to study different tricks from anyone whos willing to let out tips here and there...

I'm in a predicament. I'm in my 7th week of 7months at a welding school. Its a big name school. Our instructors have great resumes. We don't get any certs and the schools logic is, companies will do your certs and often times won't accept certs done by others. Its a great school, we bust ass, and they're going to teach us how to pass welding tests. But no certs. And it's about $19K. I'm paying cash about a month at a time so it's not an all or nothing thing. I can leave whenever. I'm not sure if it's worth it? I do fabrication at home after school, but I have learned a lot more since starting school.

Many mahalos, brother man

I want to start my career in shutdowns that way you just weld for the most part cause they have fitters have a friend that makes 20k a month i have nccer structural. twic and osha 10 going to be working on my tig welding so i can go back to school and get nccer in pipe.

Give before you get hell yeah brother

Hey man I need advice. I’ve never welded in my life but I’m bett interested in that trade and I love the sound of the pipeline welder lifestyle. I’m planning on going to a tradeschool next year. My question is what should I do once I graduate ? Will I be able to get a good job straight off the bat ? The program I’m gonna do gives 6-7 certificates including all the important ones. Thanks in advance

excellent video

Hello. Thank you for the video. Are you still responding to viewers? I have a few questions. Thanks.

i have the same Lincoln brand new

Could you post some stick welding videos, 6010 with arc control adjustment?

Nailed it! It is a shame what we have become as an American society - gimme this, gimme that. That is not how this works or should ever work, work for it!

Just curious but why did you leave the union to go independent?

truth be told

good advice, you have to get out and hustle to make good money. the everybody gets a trophy generation has not learned that.

Your right keep the good name and watch out for crooks, the Trucking industry was ruined tht way along with want to be's.

Everybody can play baseball or football and anybody can weld but very few get paid to do it . You have to put in a lot of time and practice to be very good at it . and you like sports are only as good as your last game

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Welding sucks I’m in it

You'll be learning the rest of your cognitive life!

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