Welding job is the way to go!

This young man made $130,000 in his first year after tech school.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/140-000-welding-job-193900082.htm
I hope I got the address right.
John
 
I talked to a pipeline welder a while back while mama was playin' games of chance, (guess you can't use the ca$$1no word on here) that told me he made $200 bucks an hour welding. He was driving a King Ranch f-250, about 25 years old.

Dick ND
 
He made $22/hr the first year and got a raise to $25 the second. Can you say OT. 72 hrs per week is more than I will ever work.
SDE
 
He might make $200/hr. on overtime, he provided the truck and the welding equipment.

We grew up doing pipeline construction, my Dad was a heavy equipment operator. But welders were notorious for giving to much information.

Rich
 
A natural gas pipe line just came through my area. I talked to a couple of the welders, $50 per hour-72 hrs per week -time and a half over 40 hours. $80.00 a day for room and meals and all they furnished was the clothes on their backs.If I was 40 years younger I would be out there with them.
 
For awhile here we were over run with pipeline welders , they all had nice newer equipment but the one thing they did not like was our weather especially last winter . Those southern boys were freezing in Nov with the first cold snap and snow , last years it went down hill fast . They earned every dime they made . I have and still can weld pipe but there is noway your getting me out there in this weather . The oil field is paying a lot more then when i worked in the patch. I made pretty good money as i was running the operation . I was incharge of all mobile equipment including the welders . had four welders and a total of six portable machines . We paid our welders 12.75 and hour with time and a half over forty and double time for Sundays and holidays . we supplied the truck and all equipment they needed .
 
Working 72 hrs per week that money is not so great. I googled union ironworjer wages midwest USA] and they start an apprentice at 22 per/hr. After three years 35 per/hr.
 

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