im not a welder you massive gay im a waiter trying to find some direction in my life from my little autism image board đŸ™‚
Anonymous says:
Trades aren’t /fashion/ one single bit outside or
Shoemaker is /fashion/ if it’s bespoke high quality stuff but otherwise trades are the antithesis of /fashion/
bro i recommend you start supplementing Zinc, Magnesium and Fenugreek NOW, drink plenty of water, get 8 hours of sleep, and do what you can at the gym. Your testosterone levels are at a critical low and you may run into health concerns if you don’t change your ways.
Someone’s got to do it, and poor low class white people are the ones that get to
But yeah, just wait for the coping LARPers to say "i make 150k a year welding and only work 4 hours a week blah blah blah" like they do every thread
I’ve been welding 3 or 4 years now, it’s definitely not /fashion/ but it’s good honest work for a decent pay – it makes university educated office b***hes absolutely sperg out on LULZ for some reason. I think a lot of people end up working in rock-bottom sweatshops welding trailers for $18/hr alongside Pedro and Paco with no respirators and grow to despise it. It’s a good career if you take care of your personal health and safety and follow some kind of upward career trajectory instead of killing yourself in some bottom-scraping hellhole. Invest in training and certifications, and focus on enhancing your skill set, and it can be pretty comfy.
Just started my apprenticeship with the UA pipefitters local up in leaf land, before that I was job-hopping for a few years in different fab shops – mostly metal core with some flux core and most recently spic-tier MIG hardwire work (was overpaid, took the money and ran). I have stories, man.
Pretty dope man. Hey did you hit those crossbeams using vertical up stick welding, or did you flip it? Here’s my daily wire dump for some fracking pumps bound for texas… 1" deep beveled grooves… six hours of dumping wire and some double stacked cap action. hecking nuked my knuckles on this one
>3-4 years doing odd jobs >barely doing an apprenticeship >wonder why people call you gay when you try to pretend its easystreet to convince yourself you aren’t a loser
Bro that post says more about yourself than it does about me. Cut down on the caffeine and salt intake and focus on your breathing – cardiac issues are no joke.
https://i.imgur.com/lTp9yTJ.jpg
we’d flip it and weld in position, 1/16in flux core 100% CO2
that’s a lot of weld, do you have to worry about warping those cylinders or does it not really matter?
You gotta realize the scale of this hecker, the size of a fridge and 1.5" steel all about, shit weighs about 5 tons. Gotta preheat just so you get your pen – warping is a non issue. Picrel for scale, that’s a quarter
Spot welding? Kys
That’s TIG you merciless gay wireburner
im not a welder you massive gay im a waiter trying to find some direction in my life from my little autism image board đŸ™‚
Honestly bro it has its pros and cons
+can look how you like
+always in high demand, can freely tell employers to suck your dick and negotiate up wage
+meritocracy, employers not concerned with past experience or education, just how good you are/how certified you are
+certification process is merit based IE just need to pass weld tests to get certified
+mostly whites
+can cuss up a storm at work and generally be an asshole
+potential to purchase own rig and become independent contractor (pipeline rig owners can easily make $200k+)
-wage kinda caps out at 80k
-layoffs common
-beaners creeping in undercutting wages
-a lot of crackheads and stupids
-long hours
not the welder but from the seam pattern it looks like they’re splicing aluminum so it gets ground off anyways. The goal is to make the profile as low as possible and not damage the base material which is tough to do when there is a probably imperfectly cut seam you’re throwing the tungsten in the middle of. I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but it looks like he understood the assignment.
Anonymous says:
The trades were kino back when people could support a whole family on one job and they could take pride in their work. Today they’re full of the some of the most insufferable dumb cunts, either old men complaining about the good ole’ days they helped to ruin or young, single men trying way too hard to look cool because today’s women don’t respect tradesmen unless they’re making bank.
>-beaners creeping in undercutting wages
They’re not undercutting the wages, the employers are cutting the ages and shafting workers. The only ones willing to do the work are replacement workers.
>+can cuss up a storm at work and generally be an asshole >+not concerned with past experience or education >+can look how you like >+mostly whites
and >-long hours
TL;DR: You work in a chaingang but it’s a career now.
not the welder but from the seam pattern it looks like they’re splicing aluminum so it gets ground off anyways. The goal is to make the profile as low as possible and not damage the base material which is tough to do when there is a probably imperfectly cut seam you’re throwing the tungsten in the middle of. I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but it looks like he understood the assignment.
Plus you can tell by the undercut on the first puddle that she’s burning HOT and if you put too much heat on the plate your pool is gonna burn in and leave undercut marks when you grind it flush. So you gotta do just enough to cover the seam and that’s it. The only wierd thing I see is, if it’s cut for a structural splice why would you seam weld it in the first place? Maybe the other side has a bevel groove and you’re just cleaning up the backfill? Either that or the bar is hollow so you really really have to watch for burn thru hence the skimpy weld? Size profile consistency and angle is ON POINT though. Props
gicve it to me straigfhjt. Is welding a job that pays well enough and can be enjoyable. How do I not heck up and be a stupid ass cracker/moron atht the bottom of the barel working for dimes on the dollar?
Pays enough. Good money means different things to different people but you won’t be broke and you’ll always have work. It’s not rockstar money but it’s a living for sure. If you make good career moves, get your red seal (or whatever your equivalent is), specialize in something, and gain a good reputation, you can make low six figures. But that takes years. The better you get the more money you can command, straight up. Nobody is gonna be asking you for references at interviews nor will they give a shit about gaps in your resume. They want to see how good you can weld and how certified you are. Certifications ie "tickets" are EVERYTHING. GET YOUR TICKETS. Get as many tickets as you can muster. Invest heavily in certification. I made 35k-ish my first year, 50-60k my second and third, will be 80k this year – now I am starting an apprenticeship with the pipefitters union, after that – I’ve heard a lot of stories of guys lining their pockets welding pipe, we shall have to see.
Realize that this board tends to attract the wealthy and LULZ in general attracts all kinds of IT-rich autists so again – good money means different things to different people. If you consider 80k a good income yeah go for it if you’re hoping to command top 1% wealth there are better avenues like IT or business management.
>can be enjoyable
As you can see there are tons of people in this thread who did not enjoy welding, and several who did. If you can get the chance, take a short course or something and see if it’s for you. I quite like it, and passion will take you everywhere. It’s a craft known to burn people out so if you are young and eager you are like gold to employers.
>How do I not heck up and be a stupid ass cracker/moron atht the bottom of the barel working for dimes on the dollar?
>stay away from drugs >dont associate with drug users >if there’s more than a few drug users at your job, quit >job-hop a lot. It only enhances your skillset and you can ask for a little bit more each time. If you feel like you have nothing left to learn at a place, it’s time to move on. >be willing to eat the shit in the beginning. Guys are gonna abuse you if you suck and a lot of noobs get discouraged and end up in low-paying dead-end jobs >Know your worth. In the beginning you should take what you can get but once you git gud you always negotiate your wage up. Always. Be prepared to walk if they aren’t willing to give you what you want. >location is everything. I live somewhere with tons of industry and a few major steel mills – everyone is crying out for welders. If you live in po-dunkia or somewhere really economically depressed like the appalachians, a lot of this advice doesn’t apply and you should be happy just to get work at all. Consider relocating to a major industrial hub. >I’ve never done fly in-fly out work before – I hear that’s where the big money is at. You have to know people to get into it and when you do, work harder than you ever have in your life. I’m told the first call is the hardest to get.
depends entirely on your location. if located in the south, then no, no trade is worth it. no union strength/low wages. if in the midwest/north then definitely, but you have to keep in mind the work culture re: the enjoyability. all trades/manual labor are full of extremely bitter burnout old men who suck to be around for 8-12 hours a day
Yes, I was going to enlist and go 18X to become Special Forces, but with how woke the military is I decided on welding instead. No regrets, one of the few careers left with manly, traditional men and no women or lgbt freaks.
Same here, brother except I was considering the Corps. I talked with my pastor about how woke it was getting and he suggested I try a trade. I probably would have gotten into fights with the tranny drill instructors so it was a good thing in the end.
>Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The fact that people who do trades constantly feel the need to state everywhere how their pay is respectable and their career is nice already tells me that there is a degree of coping going on.
I think a lot of people look down on blue collar tradie types as poor unintelligent rednecks, which isn’t far off from the truth, so they feel the need to constantly prove their worth. Why, I can’t say, I’m pretty happy as a poor unintelligent redneck, life is pretty comfy actually.
no
what is?
tailor
gay as hell
fashion is pretty gay my man.
Welders are the biggest attention whores so I’m not surprised a welder made this shit thread
Only correct answer
We call you a gay because you behave like a massive gays
Shut up you stupid, go inhale more glue
t. Electromechanic
im not a welder you massive gay im a waiter trying to find some direction in my life from my little autism image board đŸ™‚
Trades aren’t /fashion/ one single bit outside or
Shoemaker is /fashion/ if it’s bespoke high quality stuff but otherwise trades are the antithesis of /fashion/
Carpentry
Cringe
I worked as a welder and it’s a living hell of a job. Unless you want to have black tar snorts for a week after you weld
if you welders used your damned fume hoods and wore your damned respirators maybe you wouldn’t have these problems
Try to work eight hours under pressure with a respirator and then you would understand.
You say that like it’s difficult
Pro tip: if the respirator is in any way difficult to breathe in, you need new filters.
Wear a n95
Nurses do it all the time.
Is welder-core the fit of 2023?
I posted my work clothes and I got called gay an unusually high amount of times so probably not.
But I’ll sell anyone my used dickies for $800
thats boilermakercore
You look exactly how I expect you to
I can smell the cigarettes, meth and domestic abuse through my screen
bro i recommend you start supplementing Zinc, Magnesium and Fenugreek NOW, drink plenty of water, get 8 hours of sleep, and do what you can at the gym. Your testosterone levels are at a critical low and you may run into health concerns if you don’t change your ways.
sorry, meant for
baahahahaha
>lung cancer for $20/hr
Someone’s got to do it, and poor low class white people are the ones that get to
But yeah, just wait for the coping LARPers to say "i make 150k a year welding and only work 4 hours a week blah blah blah" like they do every thread
You sound like such a gay right now, and I don’t even weld that shits gay
based welding thread
I’ve been welding 3 or 4 years now, it’s definitely not /fashion/ but it’s good honest work for a decent pay – it makes university educated office b***hes absolutely sperg out on LULZ for some reason. I think a lot of people end up working in rock-bottom sweatshops welding trailers for $18/hr alongside Pedro and Paco with no respirators and grow to despise it. It’s a good career if you take care of your personal health and safety and follow some kind of upward career trajectory instead of killing yourself in some bottom-scraping hellhole. Invest in training and certifications, and focus on enhancing your skill set, and it can be pretty comfy.
Just started my apprenticeship with the UA pipefitters local up in leaf land, before that I was job-hopping for a few years in different fab shops – mostly metal core with some flux core and most recently spic-tier MIG hardwire work (was overpaid, took the money and ran). I have stories, man.
will post pics from my phone shortly
sup welder bro
in the spirit of posting pics here is part of a bridge I built
How would you take care of my safety anon
Jacket looks really cool
Pretty dope man. Hey did you hit those crossbeams using vertical up stick welding, or did you flip it? Here’s my daily wire dump for some fracking pumps bound for texas… 1" deep beveled grooves… six hours of dumping wire and some double stacked cap action. hecking nuked my knuckles on this one
we’d flip it and weld in position, 1/16in flux core 100% CO2
that’s a lot of weld, do you have to worry about warping those cylinders or does it not really matter?
>3-4 years doing odd jobs
>barely doing an apprenticeship
>wonder why people call you gay when you try to pretend its easystreet to convince yourself you aren’t a loser
Bro that post says more about yourself than it does about me. Cut down on the caffeine and salt intake and focus on your breathing – cardiac issues are no joke.
You gotta realize the scale of this hecker, the size of a fridge and 1.5" steel all about, shit weighs about 5 tons. Gotta preheat just so you get your pen – warping is a non issue. Picrel for scale, that’s a quarter
That’s TIG you merciless gay wireburner
Honestly bro it has its pros and cons
+can look how you like
+always in high demand, can freely tell employers to suck your dick and negotiate up wage
+meritocracy, employers not concerned with past experience or education, just how good you are/how certified you are
+certification process is merit based IE just need to pass weld tests to get certified
+mostly whites
+can cuss up a storm at work and generally be an asshole
+potential to purchase own rig and become independent contractor (pipeline rig owners can easily make $200k+)
-wage kinda caps out at 80k
-layoffs common
-beaners creeping in undercutting wages
-a lot of crackheads and stupids
-long hours
Forgot picrel because I am dumbheck
What the heck did you do to it then, doesn’t look like any TIG i’ve seen
big steps, probably not enough filler material
not the welder but from the seam pattern it looks like they’re splicing aluminum so it gets ground off anyways. The goal is to make the profile as low as possible and not damage the base material which is tough to do when there is a probably imperfectly cut seam you’re throwing the tungsten in the middle of. I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but it looks like he understood the assignment.
The trades were kino back when people could support a whole family on one job and they could take pride in their work. Today they’re full of the some of the most insufferable dumb cunts, either old men complaining about the good ole’ days they helped to ruin or young, single men trying way too hard to look cool because today’s women don’t respect tradesmen unless they’re making bank.
>-beaners creeping in undercutting wages
They’re not undercutting the wages, the employers are cutting the ages and shafting workers. The only ones willing to do the work are replacement workers.
>a lot of crackheads and stupids
I wonder why…
>+can cuss up a storm at work and generally be an asshole
>+not concerned with past experience or education
>+can look how you like
>+mostly whites
and
>-long hours
TL;DR: You work in a chaingang but it’s a career now.
Welding’s fun but not /fashion/ at all
Spot welding? Kys
Plus you can tell by the undercut on the first puddle that she’s burning HOT and if you put too much heat on the plate your pool is gonna burn in and leave undercut marks when you grind it flush. So you gotta do just enough to cover the seam and that’s it. The only wierd thing I see is, if it’s cut for a structural splice why would you seam weld it in the first place? Maybe the other side has a bevel groove and you’re just cleaning up the backfill? Either that or the bar is hollow so you really really have to watch for burn thru hence the skimpy weld? Size profile consistency and angle is ON POINT though. Props
in what world?
Yes. Man, I miss living in Moscow and being a welder. Shit was good.
There is nothing more satisfying and more /fashion/ than melting steel together
gicve it to me straigfhjt. Is welding a job that pays well enough and can be enjoyable. How do I not heck up and be a stupid ass cracker/moron atht the bottom of the barel working for dimes on the dollar?
Be good. It’s technically a craft, it’s not like being a sparky or a plumber.
>Is welding a job that pays well enough
Pays enough. Good money means different things to different people but you won’t be broke and you’ll always have work. It’s not rockstar money but it’s a living for sure. If you make good career moves, get your red seal (or whatever your equivalent is), specialize in something, and gain a good reputation, you can make low six figures. But that takes years. The better you get the more money you can command, straight up. Nobody is gonna be asking you for references at interviews nor will they give a shit about gaps in your resume. They want to see how good you can weld and how certified you are. Certifications ie "tickets" are EVERYTHING. GET YOUR TICKETS. Get as many tickets as you can muster. Invest heavily in certification. I made 35k-ish my first year, 50-60k my second and third, will be 80k this year – now I am starting an apprenticeship with the pipefitters union, after that – I’ve heard a lot of stories of guys lining their pockets welding pipe, we shall have to see.
Realize that this board tends to attract the wealthy and LULZ in general attracts all kinds of IT-rich autists so again – good money means different things to different people. If you consider 80k a good income yeah go for it if you’re hoping to command top 1% wealth there are better avenues like IT or business management.
>can be enjoyable
As you can see there are tons of people in this thread who did not enjoy welding, and several who did. If you can get the chance, take a short course or something and see if it’s for you. I quite like it, and passion will take you everywhere. It’s a craft known to burn people out so if you are young and eager you are like gold to employers.
>How do I not heck up and be a stupid ass cracker/moron atht the bottom of the barel working for dimes on the dollar?
>stay away from drugs
>dont associate with drug users
>if there’s more than a few drug users at your job, quit
>job-hop a lot. It only enhances your skillset and you can ask for a little bit more each time. If you feel like you have nothing left to learn at a place, it’s time to move on.
>be willing to eat the shit in the beginning. Guys are gonna abuse you if you suck and a lot of noobs get discouraged and end up in low-paying dead-end jobs
>Know your worth. In the beginning you should take what you can get but once you git gud you always negotiate your wage up. Always. Be prepared to walk if they aren’t willing to give you what you want.
>location is everything. I live somewhere with tons of industry and a few major steel mills – everyone is crying out for welders. If you live in po-dunkia or somewhere really economically depressed like the appalachians, a lot of this advice doesn’t apply and you should be happy just to get work at all. Consider relocating to a major industrial hub.
>I’ve never done fly in-fly out work before – I hear that’s where the big money is at. You have to know people to get into it and when you do, work harder than you ever have in your life. I’m told the first call is the hardest to get.
depends entirely on your location. if located in the south, then no, no trade is worth it. no union strength/low wages. if in the midwest/north then definitely, but you have to keep in mind the work culture re: the enjoyability. all trades/manual labor are full of extremely bitter burnout old men who suck to be around for 8-12 hours a day
Yes, I was going to enlist and go 18X to become Special Forces, but with how woke the military is I decided on welding instead. No regrets, one of the few careers left with manly, traditional men and no women or lgbt freaks.
Same here, brother except I was considering the Corps. I talked with my pastor about how woke it was getting and he suggested I try a trade. I probably would have gotten into fights with the tranny drill instructors so it was a good thing in the end.
your pastor? did you make sure to consult your magic 8ball too?
Have fun burning in hell, gay.
>Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1:3-5
>/fashion/ – Welding & Bible Study
no
welders are all gays
fur trapping is the most /fashion/ trade.
every single welder i know is a heroin addict.
t. fur trapper
If you want to age and disability max then yes welding will get you there
is filth the cornerstone of your aesthetic? then welding is /fashion/, yes
if i gave a shit i’d post my leather jacket as proof
The fact that people who do trades constantly feel the need to state everywhere how their pay is respectable and their career is nice already tells me that there is a degree of coping going on.
I think a lot of people look down on blue collar tradie types as poor unintelligent rednecks, which isn’t far off from the truth, so they feel the need to constantly prove their worth. Why, I can’t say, I’m pretty happy as a poor unintelligent redneck, life is pretty comfy actually.
You are not wrong, I could see myself easily enjoying being a redneck