How to Become a Welder and Make It a Successful Career Posted: May 8, 2018 by Zander Buel (RSI)
The American Welding Society predicts that the U.S. will need more than 400,000 welders by the year 2025[1] for one simple reason: The work of welders plays a huge role in creating more than half of the country’s products, from cars to computers to cell phones. [2]
If you want to fill one of these jobs, you need the right skills and the training. It’s hard work, but the payoff is a job that can last you a lifetime.
Can Anyone Become a Welder?
Yes! Anyone can in fact become a welder. But like with any other trade, pursuing a welding career is a lot more enjoyable and realistic when your interests align with the responsibilities and day-to-day operations of a welder.
The Ideal Preferences of a Welder
Active Work
Operating welding equipment is active work.[3] It requires welders to stand, stoop and bend their bodies. They also lift objects a lot.
Their work may take them outdoors to different job sites, such as on the ground doing repair and maintenance or high up in the air on the scaffolding of a skyscraper.[4]
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