{"id":829,"date":"2009-09-29T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmenelectrode.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2009-09-01T07:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:26:45","slug":"advice-for-new-welders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/carmenelectrode\/2009\/09\/29\/advice-for-new-welders\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for New Welders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you&#8217;re having a bad day at work? \u00a0Just wait until you hear about Marty Rice&#8217;s bad days, cuz he&#8217;s had a lot of &#8217;em&#8230; \u00a0And I mean, traveling uphill to work, both ways in the snow with no shoes on, kind of bad days. \u00a0Afterall, welding&#8217;s a dirty job, but somebody&#8217;s gotta do it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Learn your trade, pay your dues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advice for new welders<br \/>\nBy Marty Rice, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>Welding jobs may not be as plentiful as they once were, but welding instructor Marty Rice believes a lot of welding work is \u201cwaiting to bust loose once the economy straightens out, and there\u2019s always work in welding, if you\u2019re willing to pack a suitcase.\u201d Rice has some advice for those embarking on a welding journey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-828\" title=\"newbie\" src=\"\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/wp-content\/newbie.jpg\" alt=\"newbie\" width=\"211\" height=\"147\" \/>I&#8217;ve paid my dues during my long and crazy welding career. I&#8217;ve had good jobs and bad jobs, good bosses and bad bosses, and I&#8217;ve met good and bad people in the field. In my opinion, one good person makes up for a bunch of lousy people. Which do you want to be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I began my welding career as a maintenance welder at an oilfield and agricultural machinery repair and rebuild plant. Actually, my title could well have been &#8220;gopher boy.&#8221; There was a bunch of older guys and I, the one young guy. The old hands were mostly World War II vets, and the only thing I had going for me was that I had just gotten out of the Army. Other than that, I was a greenhorn\u2014a newbie, a guy who didn&#8217;t know squat, and a pain in the butt. So my job was doing the hard, dirty work no one else wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefabricator.com\/ArcWelding\/ArcWelding_Article.cfm?ID=2244\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUE READING ONLINE -&gt;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=597_1003&amp;products_id=7458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Starter Welding Gear from Arc-Zone.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/images\/gearpack_starter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re just starting out, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=597_1003&amp;products_id=7458\">Arc-Zone.com&#8217;s Starter Welding Gear Packages<\/a>. \u00a0And if you&#8217;re in welding school now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=66&amp;chapter=0\">Arc-Zone.com offers School\/ Student Discounts!<\/a><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your story?  How did you get started?<\/p>\n<p>What advice would YOU  offer a newbie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you&#8217;re having a bad day at work? \u00a0Just wait until you hear about Marty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welding-education","category-welding-fun","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Advice for New Welders - Carmen Electrode\u2122 Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Advice for New Welders - 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