$82k
Sorry anon I make about 50% more sitting behind a desk and playing Lego with web services
He’s probably driving around in rural areas though. What’s the cost of living at your place? Not Silicon Valley, I hope?
You have to do your work outside and either standing or kneeling, and it gets hot as hell because of the heat of the welding. Sometimes you’re in vessels. It seems miserable. 82K isn’t even that much money for the work, in my opinion. Specialty workers can make more but still…
Not to mention 82k isnt the average. There’s plenty of work inside but it’s still loud, dirty, construction air nasty eating packed lunches on a bucket bullshit. Trade jobs can make you great money… huge caveat being it’s only when you’re working for yourself.
one of the highest workers in demand
A lot of workers are in higher demand, but most of them don’t smoke anywhere near as much weed at work.
That’s probably why he’s not getting paid much. That kind if skilled work is easily in excess of 100k/year
Mostly depends on if you want to do shift work. If you do, easy in most places.
welding > wedding
Webster’s dictionary defines wedding as “the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.”
that’s quite perfect ^^
in German they use the word for assembling 2 big mechanical parts together, like the carriage and the body of a car
I don’t know German but i love its penchant for just welding words together seemingly more often than other languages
it’s the same in English
And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband?
It reads as the background story of the enemy “The Welder” in a horror video game that you would find through scattered notes.
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Sounds like weak-ass version of Dogwelder to me.
Dogwelder welds dogs to people.
I mean, at least he’s aptly named 🤷😄
Sounds like it’s up the Amnesia series’s alley. Victims are all welded inside a box while alive, and left to die.
I finished Outlast recently, and it made me think about The Groom who mutilates male patients’ sexual attributes to turn them into his ideal wife, but keeps failing and trying again.
Doesn’t welding fuck up your eyesight when you get older? Maybe that’s why it’s in demand?
Only if you don’t use proper shields.
And give you a higher chance of getting Parkinson’s from the manganese in the welding fumes.
Just looked it up and N95-P100 masks/respirators cover most exposure that welding should create. I’m a hobbyist welder, but wear a P100 respirator 95% if the time (100% indoors).
From NIOSH:
RESPIRATOR RECOMMENDATIONS
NIOSH
Up to 10 mg/m3:
(APF = 10) Any particulate respirator equipped with an N95, R95, or P95 filter (including N95, R95, and P95 filtering facepieces) except quarter-mask respirators. The following filters may also be used: N99, R99, P99, N100, R100, P100.
Click here for information on selection of N, R, or P filters.
(APF = 10) Any supplied-air respiratorUp to 25 mg/m3:
(APF = 25) Any supplied-air respirator operated in a continuous-flow mode
(APF = 25) Any powered, air-purifying respirator with a high-efficiency particulate filter.Up to 50 mg/m3:
(APF = 50) Any air-purifying, full-facepiece respirator with an N100, R100, or P100 filter.
Click here for information on selection of N, R, or P filters.(APF = 50) Any supplied-air respirator that has a tight-fitting facepiece and is operated in a continuous-flow mode
(APF = 50) Any powered, air-purifying respirator with a tight-fitting facepiece and a high-efficiency particulate filter
(APF = 50) Any self-contained breathing apparatus with a full facepiece
(APF = 50) Any supplied-air respirator with a full facepieceUp to 500 mg/m3:
(APF = 1000) Any supplied-air respirator operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure modeEmergency or planned entry into unknown concentrations or IDLH conditions:
(APF = 10,000) Any self-contained breathing apparatus that has a full facepiece and is operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode
(APF = 10,000) Any supplied-air respirator that has a full facepiece and is operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode in combination with an auxiliary self-contained positive-pressure breathing apparatusEscape:
(APF = 50) Any air-purifying, full-facepiece respirator with an N100, R100, or P100 filter.
Click here for information on selection of N, R, or P filters.Any appropriate escape-type, self-contained breathing apparatus\
Up to 500 mg/m3
I kinda want to know how thick that smoke looks
I think it splits hydrogen off of water molecules too, so if it’s at all humid in there, it might be explosive too.
Only if you don’t wear a respirator to filter that shit
Well where the fuck do you think we live? America. Ain’t nobody getting that shit here.
Good employers will pay for it or provide it, even in the US.
I wear a respirator while welding, but it’s only really a hobby for me so far. But now I’m curious, which filters actually catch manganese?
I’m usually worried about accounting zinc (on galvanized steel), because it can make you ill for a couple days, unless you drink a glass of safety milk.
I have literally never seen a welding mask with either a built-in respirator or enough room in front of the mouth/nose to accommodate a separate one. Do such things even exist?
https://www.millerwelds.com/safety/respiratory
Sorry for your condition, must be hard not being able to do a web search :(
