If you’re looking at getting into a career path,
welding is it.
It’s not going away,
it’s only getting better and it’s needing you now.
The demand for the jobs and skilled workers
are better now than they’ve ever been.
AWS, the American Welding Society,
is projecting that there’s going to be over a shortage
of 250,000 welding jobs
available in North America alone.
What we’re looking for is those top ten percenters.
Those individuals that want to
come to school everyday.
They’re eager to learn.
They’re eager to learn a skilled trade,
getting into the skilled trade to be able
to produce an income that can support their family
for the rest of their lives.
If they come in and they show up
and they do a great job, everyday,
they can become successful in this particular field.
So, we talked about skills in a skill-set
and kind of being self-motivated.
What really branches you to be,
I guess, the best of the best
and a success story past skills?
What takes it in that little ball of skill-set
to really emphasize it?
Well I think it’s the lifestyle that you choose to live.
It’s the person that is not going to make an excuse.
It’s someone that’s going to show up,
and put his whole heart effort into it.
The successes of being able to show up
and do their job and learn a craft and learn a skill.
It’s not necessarily being the best student grade-wise,
it’s about coming in and putting 110% effort all the time;
showing up, doing a good job,
being able to be honest, be efficient,
and be able to do what you say you’re going to do.
One very, very big thing that Ryan and I expect
is that you have to be an independent,
a free thinker and motivated. Self-motivated.
And if you’re not, we can help you with that
and I think everybody has that,
and it’s essential that you have those skills
beyond just the welding and the academics.
But really you’ve got to be self-motivated
and be self-inspiring.
Communication is huge,
especially when you’re working with people.
You not only have to deal with everybody
but you’re going to deal with people that you don’t like,
but you still have to work with them
to get the job done.
So it’s putting your differences aside to get the job done.
Meet a mentor.
A mentor like Ryan Eubank, who was mine,
Ryan really, really emphasized
the work ethic, the skills.
You’re going to learn how to have a work ethic.
You’re going to learn that it’s going to be dirty,
that it’s going to be a little hard,
but you know what?
It’s going to pay out extremely well for you in the next few years.
Everything is on a personal level
to where if you want to get a job,
get a better job you have to develop yourself.
You can’t expect someone to push you into a better position.
All I had was my sense of pride
and my work ethic that would keep me there.
But if you go in and you work
and you put your heart into it,
then I mean you’re going to go anywhere.
You can do anything.