What are the pros and cons of being a welder?

Answer 1

there is alot of cons if you ask me, to name a few: Breathing toxic fumes and dust, loud noises, lossing eye sight over time, heavy lifting, getting burns, smashing fingers, welding in some very awkward positions that are hard on your body.

Thats just to name a few that come to mind and that is specific more to my personal experience with my current job in a fab/repair shop. We do pretty much everything here. There are alot of welders out there that just do the same thing over and over agin and those are relatively clean enviroments.

Some Pros would be: the satisfaction in building something that will last years and years and take a lot of abuse in some cases, generally good pay, the satisfaction of doing something most people find simply amazing, being able to save the day for people in dire need sometimes, I think of myself as a metal docter. Also there isn't a place in the world that you couldn't go with this trade.