How To Become A Welder

Bonder, fuser, joiner, merger, builder, or whatever you want to call it. It’s what i want to do. For a more broad name lets just say welder. There are many ways to become a welder. There are literally so many types of welding if you tried to count them on one hand it would be impossible. If you counted on both hands you could get to the number of categories there are, but still not enough. You would have to get six friends to help you to get to the number of metal fusing types of welding. With that many types of welding out there just imagine how many jobs are open for this particular field. To become a certified welder that's highly skilled in one of these select fields you will need to know three basic informative points. One of witch is

There are two main ways of doing this. The least common way of doing this is an apprenticeship. To do this you would sit under a certified welder with college education and learn from him/her. It’s almost the equivalent of a GED for college. It takes a bit longer to get certified, but it’s a bit longer to get certified, but it’s a little bit cheaper way to do it. After about eighteen to twenty-four months with a good teacher you can get certified. From there you would apply for a job, take the test for the specific certification and then your a fully certified welder. The easiest and most common option is to go to a trade school or community college. A community college takes about as long as an apprenticeship. A trade school is the fastest way to become a welder and/ or an all around general welder. At the college i’m planning to attend. The standard program takes seven months and the extended pipe fitting program takes 11 months. After I complete my schooling I would then go and apply for a job and take the test for that specified certificate and i’m good to go. By that point i’m officially a

At a 6% growth based off of a 2016 survey, in ten years 23,000 people will enter the field of welding. In Addition to the current number of people employed in the field. As far as the benefits go. It’s not like a lot of jobs where you can get healthcare, 401K, in some places your housing can get paid for, and some other amenities to. The benefits that come with welding however do include a considerably sizable paycheck and can even be based off of hourly wage if you settle into a hob at a location based company. The majority of welders go for easy jobs, that don’t pay to much so that puts a dint in the statistic that welders make an average hourly wage of $19.04 and can pull up to 60 hours a week. That’s $1,164 a week and around 50K annually. Thats literally only $20 an hour. Many welders won’t settle for those crumbs. They will go and look for that $30 or even $40 an hour job. At $30 an hour with a 40 hour week all year, that’s $87,000 annually. If you manage to get a $40 an hour with 40 hours a week as a welder witch isn’t to offly rare you can end up with a doctor's salary at 100K+ a year with a 12th of the