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[aametalmaster]

I saw welds like that at the last place i worked too. I was giving a test to a kid i knew and he was doing real bad. I told him to just leave and stop over at my shop later and he could practice a little more which he did but they didn't hire him.
Another kid was leafing thru his textbook before he struck an arc to see how to do it.
These kids have it beat into their head at the welding school that they all will be making 30 bucks an hour when done. Hmmm i heard the same thing 38 years ago when graduating Vocational Machine Trades. 15 bucks an hour right up the street. The steel mills closed and the economy when in the sewer and you couldn't buy a job around here. Oh well found a job for $2.25 an hour and never looked back. Got lots of experience ...Bob