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Welding Narrative

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It all started in High School. At first I wanted to be a mechanic all through Middle School and my first year of High School. My first year in High School I took a Mechanic’s class. And then I found out about a welding class that I could take. I took the intro class for the first semester of my 10th grade year. Because it was only a semester long class. My 11th grade year I took level 1 Manuf & Eng witch was half of like a machining class and the other half was a welding class. The Machining part of the class was ok but the welding part I was better at. By the end of my 10th grade year I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to be in life. At the beginning of the 11th grade I was in level 2 Manuf & Eng in the Welding program. All through my 11th grade I got better at welding and I was also in a program that was called Skill’s U.S.A. that took place at my school on tuesday nights. Through my 11th grade year I got not only better at welding but I got to make things that not everyone in my class got the chance to make. I got asked to make a metal fence for the school that only 4 other students got asked to make. And the reason why we were asked to make it was because at some point in time someone drove back to where all are scrap metal was and …show more content…

For an example 3 days ago being march 30 2016 I spent my day welding. But later that night I woke up in a lot of pain and I knew exactly why I was in pain. Its called flash burn. It happens when your welding or someone else is welding around you and your not wearing a welding helmet. The symptoms of flash burn are pain that may be mild or very severe, usually starting a few hours after the incident Bloodshot eyes, light sensitivity, watery eyes, blurred vision, the feeling of having something in your eye. And this I can say is the worse pain I have ever been in it is like your eyes are being set on fire and it won’t go away. There are a lot of other things that

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