Re: Job Hunt Frustration

Posted by Steve Crum on August 06, 2005 at 05:17:07 from (4.156.231.230):

In Reply to: Job Hunt Frustration posted by sdloy on August 05, 2005 at 17:17:56:

It's even uglier trying to find somebody to weld. Tig is the primary process in the shop. I tried to find somebody weld for me a few hours a day. Hours were flexable and I was offering $25 an hour as a contract rate. Would have been great for somebody retired or semi retired. Got a few real young guys that inquired, one even claimed to be AWS certified but it was obvious none even had the first clue of how to tig weld, even worse, my equipment is state of the art Miller and Thermo Dynamics. (this equipment is Cadillac style from what I started out with 22 years ago). I gave each guy 6 pieces of stainless and 1 hour to produce 2 of their best welds. Needless to say I ended up with a lot of pieces in the scrap hopper and still do all the welding myself. America is sure lacking for the arts that used to be passed down thru the generations. If it can't be done on a computer most people can't do it anymore. Note that I am slowly computerizing many of my processes I'm not trying to save labor costs, I'm forced to engineer the people factor out of the work because I can't find the people that can do the work, or are really interested in learning the work.

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