There was an article in the local news today…our town’s work developement force is going to pay for a six week afternoon course on welding for any person interested. Apparently there aren’t enough welders locally to meet the demand. I’m seriously considering it, it sounds fun. But I’ve no experience with welding. My current profession is as an apartment complex manager. I have no carpentry building experience at all and where so? Is it worth the effort to do the course? Could I use the skill somehow professionally? I’m asking if being a welder is a worthy interesting cause or not. The idea of using fire on metal to meld two pieces seems really creative and interesting to me. Any thoughts? I am a woman if it effects your opinion in any way. There may be an unspoken ‘thing’ among male welders against female welders. I’m shooting blind so bare with me.
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Welders make decent money. It’s a nice skill to have - especially one to fall back on.
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Women make better welders than men for some reason.
Ditto: A nice skill to have. In fact, I’m wishing I had a welding rig right now.
So I could weld like a motherfuck!
Go for it. I did one of those free classes years ago and never regreted it. Everyone in the class was a little POed when it became obvious we would mostly be fabricating lawn furniture for the instructor.
I agree: Go for it. What’s the worst that could happen? You’d learn a new skill?
Good heavens!! No! :eek:
Another go for it. I am a female and I know how to weld. I am not certified to weld in commercial projects but was trained when I went through Theatre School. It was so cool when I first learned but I soon realized that welding is a very small piece of the puzzle. It takes so much more time preparing and jigging everything up, and only minutes to actually do the welding.
The only downside is the black boogers. I’m serious there is nothing worse that blowing your nose after a day a metal working. :rolleyes:
Oh I forgot to mention, if you are planning on doing this as a career look into the health risks of constantly inhaling the gasses released from the welding process.
Guys, what if she menstruates all over the welding equipment?!?
Seriously, go for it; you never know when a skill like this could be useful, and to be able to acquire it for free is not to be passed up, and I see no particular reason why gender makes any difference at all to whether you should do it.
I wish I could get a free welding class or an inexpensive welding class. It’s a wicked useful skill.
I can tack like a motherfucker!
Before you begin, I think you might want to view a documentary about the life of a typical female welder.
Where is this taking place?
Wisconsin. Thanks for the input guys. I’m going to the informational meeting next Tuesday and the course starts at the end of January. 6 weeks. I’m actually really excited by this!
Does this mean I’ll have her body too? Alright!!! 
There’s also this documentary.
Yay, welding! I wish I knew how to weld.
One of my teachers back in college told us a story about when he was in trade school, learning how to weld. His mom walked through the garage carrying a load of laundry, saw what he was doing, and said, “Hey, no, don’t do it like that; it’s easier this way,” and tried to show him a better way of doing it. He was all “shyeah, right, Mom, you know how to weld. Show me.”
Turns out that she paid the bills during WWII by getting a job as a welder… once the war was over, she went back to being a homemaker and never mentioned it.