Welding
Average National Wage: $50,460 | $24.26/hour
Welders working in residential construction typically enjoy more variety of projects within a year. They focus on joining steel beams for building support and pipes for carrying water or natural gas and use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
In the welding trade you will learn:
- Safety
- Structural welding
- Applied mathematics
- Ability to weld materials
- Blueprint reading skills
Important qualities for welders:
- Detail oriented
- Manual dexterity
- Problem-solving ability
- Spatial-oriented skills
- Technical skills
Once you complete training, you have a variety of employment opportunities:
- Apprenticeship programs
- Supervisor
- Instructor
- Project manager
