What are some downsides of being a welder?

Answer 1

It's hot. Your work is not usually in a climate controlled environment The use of a fan is limited as it will blow away the gases in a mig type weld. You are breathing allot of gases and residues that are not the best for you. There is a potential for may types of job related injuries - burns, eye related injuries from grinding and the light produced from cutting and welding.

Answer 2

Dick heads thinking that we have the easiest job in the place so they try to get us to do stuff that we're unqualified to do like: labor, lifting, painting, bodywork, or even making our own lunch.

Fact is. What we do holds the world together and many people don't realize the seriousness of what we do. We weld what the engineer went to school for, we manufacture the dreams of corporations and by that mark alone we're the most underpaid trade there is. Even at $250,000.00 a year we still have the hardest job that people think is so easy.

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