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4 Benefits of Choosing a Skilled Trades Career

Deciding what you want to do with your life can be daunting and scary. It’s a big decision. The first step in the right direction is to figure out things you like to do and then see if you can make a career out of them. You may feel pressure that the career has to come from a traditional 4-year ...

Where A Career in Welding Can Take You

Does anyone know of someone who has seen the Seven Wonders of the World and then some? Been in the most desolate lands on the planet, whether hot or cold? How about someone who escapes death day after day due to specific safety training only select groups of people receive? Do you know anyone who makes 3,500 degree molten metal ...

Reviving Blue Collar Work: 4 Myths About the Skilled Trades

What do you think about when you think about skilled trades or blue-collar work? A thriving career that allows you to get your hands dirty and do what you love to do? If that’s not what you think of, it should be. Blue-collar is defined as “a descriptive used to describe a manual worker, ” aka workers who aren’t afraid ...

The Wide World of Welding | Welded Art

When you think of welding, what do you think of? The process used to build bridges, repair fences, construct skyscrapers? The answer really is infinite. (You can see our previous post to get a picture of where we’d be without welding) Welding opens up a world of possibilities, even artistic ones. Many sculptors turn to welding to construct their works of ...

A World Without Welding

Whether you want to admit it or not, everyone has used something created by a welder. You handle things created by a metal craftsman regularly. When you get up and start your car in the morning, or when you have friends over for a bar-b-que, you have utilized something created by a welder. Or when you look at the weather ...