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It's kind of a political meme that welding is the key to everyone getting a middle class lifestyle, because good welders get paid a good amount. The joke ofc b
by RC_ITR 5y ago
It's kind of a political meme that welding is the key to everyone getting a middle class lifestyle, because good welders get paid a good amount.
The joke ofc being that there is a 'shortage' of welders because it's actually very hard to become a good welder. If, somehow, we got a bunch of people to become really good welders, it would just go to being a low paid profession.
- subsubzero 5y agoits very hard to be become a good welder and it usually takes about a decade to master that craft, so 10 years gone. Very similar to medical school except you are making money during that decade instead of paying it to schools and residency.
- a9h74j 5y agoAnd you can fail to get a residency even after $300K to get through medical school.
- throwawayboise 5y agoThe best people in any field make the most money in general, and it takes a lot of experience and work along with intelligence and natural ability to be among that group.
- tejtm 5y agosounds just like programming ... I know! let's invent object oriented welding to lower the barriers to being able to make a weld that holds.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoIf you're welding without regard for the objects or their orientation you're probably going to have a bad time.
- lazyasciiart 5y agoIt probably won't be proper functional welding either.