Just looking for a little advice here. A guy at work and I where talking last night and I mentioned I wanted to go to welding school. He said his brother just graduated and it was a 15 week course and cost about $15k. The school has a 100% success rate in finding you a job right after graduation starting at least $16 an hour. I was just wondering if anyone has ever done this or if they have a better idea for welding school. Figure this would be the place to ask since there are many skilled trades people here.
are you looking to go into it as a career or just screwing around on personal projects. thats allot of money to drop if you arent looking for a career.
my dad is a certified welder/master auto body tech. my grandpa was a union pipe fitter welder.
I however, am an IT guy. I love to weld though. My welds sometimes are pretty. wont fall apart but I cant compete with my dad. only reason I dont say my GPA is because he cant see anymore and lost his steady hand.
my point is if only doing it as a hobby there are much cheaper ways to become efficient... you can get a damn nice welder or two for that kind of money.
You will be welding on ships for the rest of your life! To graduate to a successful welding job you must be able to sucks Steveo off or weld plate glass.
did the marines, car sales, and engineering school not work out? :teehee: I'm not trying to be a dick with this comment, but with the way you follow through with things, I think I'd suggest a basic welding class at the local community college to get the basics down and see if it's actually a career you'll want to spend the money on to get properly trained for.
ask steveo, he seems to enjoy welding.
I know a few pipefitters that seem to make real nice money and enjoy doing what they do.
Talk to some iron workers too, many of them are welders and make good money.
Union Sheetmetal worker here, got into a shop 8 years ago that specializes in custom fab and food grade stainless. (No ductwork) they put me thru a 4 year apprentiship and learned welding along the way. Now i can mig, stick, and tig just about anything. Work is steady and benifets are great. Close to 30 bucks an hour so if i were you try to get into the trades.
I'm speculating that if you are searching for a more lucrative career, I.e. post-$16/hr, then you will not be able to handle a 15k education bill without some sort of aid. And nothing as far as employment is guaranteed so if it doesn't work out, you still have to pay it back. Also, going by your other posts, youre an idiot and I am being a dick.
Schoolcraft college has some great welding and manufacturing programs. We recently got a new welding department head who came from wcc that really knows her shit. The school also invested in a ton of new machines and some sweet equipment. It will be a lot less than 15k too
Schoolcraft would be a great place for you to get started in welding. Not so expensive and instructors with plenty of knowledge. Smaller class sizes and more one on one instruction.
I did Welding school a little over a year ago. Went to Kirtland Community College and since I had never been to school I applyed and received a pell grant. It's about $3600 a semester(3 semesters total) and the pell covered 2500 a semester and I made monthly payments on rest so I never had to take a loan out. Guys I work with went this other school in onaway and paid 15k to gets certs straight out of pocket and had to take loans out at their banks. So my advice is plan ahead so it costs you way less. I enjoy being a welder and it was worth it for me anyways.
Y know, I like giving AJ shit as much as everyone else, but I'm convinced he has the worst case of ADD ever. Never seen anyone who operates on pure impulse like AJ
Those trade schools like to promise big things with little return. In my industry it is the same way, I'm a Commercial Diver, and all these schools say "Spend 35K here but make 100K your first year!"
Fortunately I knew that was complete bull and just needed my certs. Best advice anyone gave me was an old Navy Diver I worked with before going to school. "Find the quickest and cheapest place out there". I did, and am very happy I went that route. I've been semi-steadily employed in this industry ever since.
I got lucky enough to get some good welding training while in high school through a career center and the local pipe fitters Union. Spent time working as a welder fabricator after high school and then got into the union as an apprentice pipe fitter/welder. I've since moved to HVAC within the same local, but if you are serious about welding as a career your best bet is going to be pipe welder or ironworker. Unions are willing to train you for no out of pocket cost, although a degree from washtenaw certainly wouldn't hurt your odds of getting into an apprenticeship as they work closely with the UA to provide training our members. Please don't turn this into a big Union vs. non Union argument. Just offering my opinion based on my experience.
Aj, not sure why you didn't stick with car sales. You build a clientele and boom you're successful.
Take Dave Kerwin for example. Prior to selling cars he didn't wear a plaid jacket. Now he looks good in one and can easily support his soccer team. He stuck it out and persisted.
If you persist in random searching you're going to have a hard time getting ahead.
Aj, not sure why you didn't stick with car sales. You build a clientele and boom you're successful.
Take Dave Kerwin for example. Prior to selling cars he didn't wear a plaid jacket. Now he looks good in one and can easily support his soccer team. He stuck it out and persisted.
If you persist in random searching you will never get ahead.
Or you tube videos of getting hit in the balls with random stuff.
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