Paying for welding school is just one way you can go. Apprenticeships will pay for you to go while paying you. Also there's non union options where the company

Paying for welding school is just one way you can go. Apprenticeships will pay for you to go while paying you. Also there's non union options where the company teaches you while paying you. If you think about it, with the proper guidance and motivation it's not impossible to do both, learn the trade and take a night class or online course with your community college a term at the same time. It's really unfortunate how the trades were looked down upon in the past. I remember in high school it wasn't even an option since all the adults would kind of hide that option from students since it wasn't what "smart" people did.