Welding Tips and Tricks

Farmwelding wrote:No I am in Beloit so about two hours-but I'm just a junior in high school right now so...I have to think about what kind of work I want to do-and see what I am best at. I figure I'll do what I'm best at and make money doing a damn fine job and work on my skills at home in the mean time.

I suggest dropping "do what I'm best at" in favor of "do what I like best".

What you like best will ultimately pay you more, because your enjoyment equals enthusiasm for it, desire to improve at it, and willingness to show up every damn day to do it.

I'm good at a bunch of s@#t I don't like doing and would never be happy making my income with.

I can finish sheet-rock mirror smooth, then put a hand-done skip-trowel texture on it, and finish it in a five-color glazed rag-roll faux-finish that will make you think you're in a 1000 year old Tuscan Villa. I would be paid damn near "fine-art" wages for this. I won't do it. I stopped enjoying it a long time ago; The fun went out and it became tedious.

Steve

Yeah I know what you mean except one problem: if it involves welding and building stuff with metal I am 95% of the time happy. It just is what it is. I just get excited to weld, fix, and build stuff. And since I enjoy every process I've done so far, whichever one in best at ill do full time and always wok on the other skills if I get a small side gig going.

Another question: what exactly is metal core arc welding. I know it is a wire feeding process but one day I looked it up and there wasn't a ton on it, I didn't dig too much but regardless. I know I'll learn about it at tech school at some point(I will make sure I run every damn machine that school has and every process and wire/rod size it has). So what is it and what are its benefits and uses?