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by Mizzip
Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:37 pm
Forum: Welding Jobs - Industrial Welding Jobs - Pipe Welding Jobs - Tig Welding Jobs
Topic: Pipeline Welding Discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 6387

Re: Pipeline Welding Discussion

Mizzip, As to what other jobs are available for 6G welders, you named a few jobs that a qualified welder can make a very good living. Most welders who are willing to travel to where they're needed have no problem making 70-100K a year with nothing more than a lunch box invested. Len This is what im...
by Mizzip
Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:46 pm
Forum: Welding Jobs - Industrial Welding Jobs - Pipe Welding Jobs - Tig Welding Jobs
Topic: Pipeline Welding Discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 6387

Re: Pipeline Welding Discussion

Mizzip, "get a job paying 40K you would have to work 25 years to make a million dollarsIf you can weld on the pipeline and make 200K you will have to work 5 years to make that same million. So if it's a boom, you better get after it or you'll be like the rest of us working 30 years until we re...
by Mizzip
Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:01 pm
Forum: Welding Jobs - Industrial Welding Jobs - Pipe Welding Jobs - Tig Welding Jobs
Topic: Pipeline Welding Discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 6387

Pipeline Welding Discussion

Hey I wanted to ask you for your opinions on Pipeline Welding. do you think that 6G certified pipe welders will always have work or that it is a boom and bust cycle?. Thanks alot. Lets get this discussion started!!!
by Mizzip
Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:56 pm
Forum: Member Introductions
Topic: New Welder
Replies: 9
Views: 798

Re: New Welder

So its been a minute since ive posted my beginning welds. Since then Ive gained some experience with MIG and TIG. The reason i signed up for the class was to become familiar with welding related information and gain experience welding. My goal is to one day pass a 6G test. I am wondering whatyou guy...
by Mizzip
Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:58 pm
Forum: Welding Jobs - Industrial Welding Jobs - Pipe Welding Jobs - Tig Welding Jobs
Topic: 5 pipe welding jobs!!
Replies: 9
Views: 3992

Re: 5 pipe welding jobs!!

Speaking of Pipe welding jobs, I was wondering if pipe welders will ever (within the next 30 years) be useless due to robotic/automated welders. I have no experience with this and heard about automated welders and was wondering if a career in wleding will still be open in the future.
by Mizzip
Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:07 pm
Forum: Member Introductions
Topic: New Welder
Replies: 9
Views: 798

Re: New Welder

I'm sure you've had some though-the-helmet watching time. ;) ;) Right? ~John To be honest with you I knew absolutely nothing about welding when i first came in, We were putting on our gear and prepping for the assignment and I was like "So what do i do?". I got paired up with one of the m...
by Mizzip
Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: Member Introductions
Topic: New Welder
Replies: 9
Views: 798

Re: New Welder

AKweldshop wrote:Welcome to the forum.
you should congratulate yourself on those welds, are those your first welds?

~John
They are from the first time i ever welded. The welds in the picture are within the first 30 beads i ran during my first time.
by Mizzip
Sun Feb 09, 2014 10:19 pm
Forum: Member Introductions
Topic: New Welder
Replies: 9
Views: 798

New Welder

I have just begun a welding class and would like some feedback on the quality of some of my first welds. I was welding with a 6013 electrode on some kind of steel ( not stainless).
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