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Originally Posted by 11567403
Some good advice!
I’ve considered the blue seal but based on employers I’ve talked too and what I’ve seen in industry it seems like it won’t necesarrily get you off the tools any faster than just being good at what you do. I could be wrong on this also but it doesn’t seem like it’s really respected as a business degree equivalent outside of industry either. it’s worth looking into again though I really haven’t given much thought since the start of my apprenticeship.
The getting trained to be a trainer advice is something I’ve never considered
But thinking about guys I’ve worked with that had various tickets to train are definitely a bigger asset to the company and more employable.
Haha searching indeed for jobs right now is rather depressing.
Didn’t realize how few helicopter jobs existed in Alberta.
Not much for power linesmen either.
And university scares me, I don’t even know how many similar stories I’ve run into about people going into all kinds of debt and graduating to mowing lawns for years after. Seems like it’s shoved down your throat so much in high school that a lot of people just assume it’s the next logical step.
Seems like it takes 8 years of schooling to matter in a lot of careers with a few exceptions. A BSc in any of the sciences could be useful later on down the road though and might making moving into management as a welder easier in the future.
I appreciate your post, do you regret going to university in hindsight?
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Do I regret it? Yes and no. It's a ton of money and time that I invested, only to not end up where I had hoped. But education is something that can never be taken away. What I learned in University has helped me tremendously in my new career path. Not many welders know calculus applied quantum physics, or statistical analysis, etc. etc.
It gave me a huge advantage getting to where I'm at now. Office job, doing QC/QA. I look over drawings, have pre-fab meetings, document things, track things, create graphs and trends, design jigs, look at stuff, teach. Redseal, B-pressure, CWB W47.1/W59 supervisor, MHSA crane trainer, ULC Gatekeeper, are the bigger credentials, plus lots of other little ones. I only do maybe 20hrs of actual welding a year now, on the really critical things and for training. I'm 36 now, and managed to get off the tools about 4 years ago. You sound ambitious, just start looking into things, and it will fall into place. Good luck! You have a 5year ticket already, it would be a shame to waste that.... I would look at building upon it... Just my 2 nickles