Welding: $15 an hour or $30 an hour?

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ppine

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A guy answered an ad for a welder. The pay was listed at $15-30 an hour. The employer asked him to make two beads with a mig welder.
The first one was ugly with a lot of splatter.
The second bead was perfect in a straight line with equally spaced weld marks.
The employer asked "What gives? Your beads are totatlly different."
The guy interviewing for the job said "The first one is a $15 dollar weld. The second one is a $30 weld."
 
ppine said:
A guy answered an ad for a welder. The pay was listed at $15-30 an hour. The employer asked him to make two beads with a mig welder.
The first one was ugly with a lot of splatter.
The second bead was perfect in a straight line with equally spaced weld marks.
The employer asked "What gives? Your beads are totatlly different."
The guy interviewing for the job said "The first one is a $15 dollar weld. The second one is a $30 weld."

THAT is priceless.
 
Thanks gnappi. If only one person gets it, then it was a successful post.
 
I don't think it is funny at all.

If you can constantly turn out perfect welds in a timely way with little or no filler take pride in your skill.

Don't sell your skill short, when the guy offers you a job at $x / per hour speak up and ask for pay that is commensurate for what it is worth.

If you don't agree with him or her, thank him or her for the opportunity and move on.

I have worked for a company who hired pipe fitters that consistently fitted and tig welded 6" stainless steel pipe with NO filler at a rate of 4 to 6 welds an hour. Their sample welds were xray and sag was measured even before they were allowed and the job site. They were retested annually.

These guys could make over $100,000.00 a year on a good year.
 

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