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With all the money that I would have used to buy a van, gas, motel room, and tuition, I could afford to pay a highly skilled, local welder to come to my garage and look over my shoulder and give me tips.
I was almost certainly never going to get a job in the welding industry, so I don’t need the diploma. UPS takes great care of my family and I will work there 11 more years until I retire at age 65. I was just going to the school to develop skills, so I will just have to do this without that school.
I really hope that one can develop a high level of welding & machining skill by spending a large amount of time on the machines, even with little formal education.
So there is some failure in this story, but I will try to glean whatever lessons there are to be learned from this attempt at a formal welding education and try to make the most of working at home.
I was almost certainly never going to get a job in the welding industry, so I don’t need the diploma. UPS takes great care of my family and I will work there 11 more years until I retire at age 65. I was just going to the school to develop skills, so I will just have to do this without that school.
I really hope that one can develop a high level of welding & machining skill by spending a large amount of time on the machines, even with little formal education.
So there is some failure in this story, but I will try to glean whatever lessons there are to be learned from this attempt at a formal welding education and try to make the most of working at home.
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