I HERE WELDING IS REAL EASY TO LERN. how do i become a welder?

Question

I WANNA LERN HOW TO WELD. I HERE ITS AN EASY JOB THAT DONT REQUIRE MUCH TRAINING. IM OUT OF WORK NOW BUT I GOTTA GET A JOB BEFORE THE WELFARE RUNS OUT. WERE Around FLINT MICHIGAN can i lern this welding. I AINT GOT NO GED. I NEVER FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL BUT IF I NEED A GED I SUPPOSE I CAN PICK ONE UP BUT WHAT FROM I HERE THIS WELDING JOB YOU DONT NEED NO DIPLOMAS OR DEGREES. HOW DO I BECOME A FACTRY WELDER WORKING IN A PLANT SOME WERE.

Answer 1

Welding requires tech school which requires a GED. Which is a good idea any way.

Answer 2

Welding can be a learned trade, then you can take a test to become certified in whatever type of welding (there are tons of categories and the tests themselves are expensive, normally at a Vo-Tech school). However, welding is NOT an easy job. It is dirty work and one that involves a lot of skills. Welding involves being able to mark up and fit pieces together, as well as the actual welding part. That involves math. Also, it takes a lot of practice and patience to become a good welder. There are many people who say they are welders, but not a lot that are good welders. There is much to be said about a good welder as laying a bad bead can lead to injuries or death (you or innocent people)depending on what you are welding on.

Answer 3

I saw this school - M-TEC - Michigan Technical Education Center

Here the address and telephone number.

LIVINGSTON REGIONAL M-TECSM
1240 Packard Drive Howell, MI 48843
517-548-4589

They offer a CONCENTRATED WELDING TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATE PROGRAM.


THE FASTEST PATH TO A SECURE, WELL-PAYING JOB AS A WELDING TECHNICIAN BEGINS HERE.

We heard what you said. You don't have time to wait around to complete the traditional one and two-year certificate programs offered by most training institutions. You need to get trained and get to work.

We put together what you need. Livingston Regional M-TEC's concentrated welding certificate program is designed to get you the skills you need to go to work as a welding technician in the fastest possible time. You go to school full-time, eight hours a day, five days a week.

You decide how much training you want. Welders are employed in a wide range of occupational areas, from manufacturing, to construction, to service work. According to America's CAREER INFONET website, the average pay range for a welding technician in Michigan ranges from $10.05/hr. to $28.50/hr., the median being $17.60/hr.

The Livingston Regional M-TEC's Concentrated Welding Certificate Program is comprised of two levels in two tracks.

Here are the courses with the date and the prices. Hopefully you can get some financial assistance. Speak to them about this when you register for the courses. Don't think just because you might not have the money that you shouldn't attempt this trade. There are many people who need welders and I'm sure the school will help you find financial assistance.



Basic Welding Shielded Metal Arc Welding (ARC) 2/13-3/1 6-9 pm $440 $75 18 T-R

Basic Welding Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) 3/6-3/15 6-9 pm $295 $75 12 T-R

Basic Welding Pre-Heat & Post-Heat Metals 3/20 6-8 pm $90 $20 2 T

Basic Welding Reading Welding Drawings 3/22-3/27 6-8 pm $115 $32 4 T-R

* Price includes books, hat, gloves, safety glasses and lab consumables

Good luck! Did you see the average rates for being a welder? That's great money and I wish you the best of luck in completing your training and getting PAID!!!

Answer 4

Your best bet is to go and get your GED. Also enroll in evening school to better your education. Being a welder does require you to read and understand instructions and blueprints. Not every dummy can weld.It requires skill to be a good welder. remember, many lives depend on the weld job a welder does. Good luck.

Answer 5

hi, hope my ansawer is not too late. i would defently agree with "live75" seems like she/he have an expiriens. as a welder i can tell you that if i dont weld for long time i realy miss it. but after i get back to work after few howers of doing the same thing over and over, standing in position that you did not be aweare of theire existance befor. having to work faster and faster in order to make your boss satesfie and still keep it in good quality.
you will be luky to find someone who will pay above the minimu for a beginer. and a beginer can be few mounths to even years. am not saying all to make you fear of that, but as "live75" says, it is a dirty job.

however i know that there are many pepole who realy like to weld all day. and some of them even become realy rich from that.

so what i would sudjest you is first find some litle metal shop, and ask the owner if he can teach you a few basic "pasess". and ask to pay for that. but not too much, just try to be fair with hime.
if he will be nice he will agree, and then you should have basic idea of what welding is all about. and you may discover that this is the last thing you want to do, or you may really like it.

if you do dicide that welder is what you realy want to be, then go for it.

choosing wich process to learn, will might be the most important thing at this point. so i will give you a few advise, but only in general.


MIG/MAG (GMAW) is the most comon welding today, and it seems to be the most easy to learn.
but it is actuly the most complicated to deeply understand becuse you have to set most of the things befor you begine to weld. so you have less control then. that process is usaly in every wehre today and is the most fast/efficient, in most of the cases.

TIG (GTAW)
seems like the hardest to learn (if you dont consider OAW)
becuse you have to take care of almost evrything and all the time, not like MIG her you can change some of the setting during the weld, so it is realy hard for the first times, but after a while you will find it as the most easy one to control. that process is used in places wehre you need the highest quality, and the time is less a factor for you. there are more expesive process then that one but they are very reare.

(SMAW)
might be the lowest compare to TIG and MIG,
but has one major advantage that both of them can hardley deliver. and is the abilety to bring a good weld even under reletivly derty matirials and out dor welding wehn the wind can disturb.
so you will basicly find it only with firms that dealing with counstruction, small shops that never heard of somthing else, and farmer/maintnince that needs to do the work out dor.

then choos your school carefuly, if you will have bad teacher/instructor, then you will be a bad welder. so look out for things that seems
"good to be true". you dont realy want to fail again in your life.

i would also buy some good video or book. so you can have some difrent point of view then your teacher.(it is very important)
her you will find a verry good stuff to read.
http://www.millerwelds.com/education/library.html

think twise befor anything you do, and good luck with your next career.