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Originally Posted by Billup
If you enjoy being hands on, have you considered taking skills trade classes for welding? Had I not gotten my current career, I was certified in GMAW and GTAW and in the works of getting my journeymans card. If you get certified, you can find some pretty promising careers with pipe welding, and even better if you look into stainless TIG welding.
To this day, I still get emails from recruiters looking to hire specialty welders with some pretty damn good starting wages. You could always look into CNC machining as well.
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I met a guy a few years ago that specialized in under water welding right out of school making $100K at the time he was contracted to work at a nearby nuclear plant. The company he worked for sent him all over the world.