Posted on 04/24/2014 10:31:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
he economy is tough, especially if you have a liberal arts degree, writes Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel. While liberal arts majors are forced to take low-paying jobs, pipeline welders are making six figures thanks to the country’s oil and gas boom.
“Too many young people have four-year liberal-arts degrees, are thousands of dollars in debt and find themselves serving coffee at Starbucks or working part-time at the mall,” Mandel wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “Many of them would have been better off with a two-year skilled-trade or technical education that provides the skills to secure a well-paying job.”
“A good trade to consider: welding. I recently visited Pioneer Pipe in the Utica and Marcellus shale area of Ohio and learned that last year the company paid 60 of its welders more than $150,000 and two of its welders over $200,000,” Mandel said, adding that the company has actually had to turn down orders because there aren’t enough skilled welders to fill them.
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YES..there is a God.
Answer: Would you like to supersize that?
Oh, come on — aren’t a few Chomsky quotes randomly to strangers or Krugman economic ideas spouted worth $20-$25 or more an hour...
Said no one ever.
I would imagine only the very best welders make that much.
The way it should be. Welders provide a commodity that is indespensible to our lives, the liberal arts majors also do; but there are way too many of them.
My daughter as a friend who, after one semester, figured out that college wasn’t for her.
So she went to a tech school and became a welder. More work for her out in those gas fields than you can shake a stick at.
Not to mention as a minority female welder, she somehow finds herself in high demand.
How long does it take to learn pipeline welding?
The only thing indespensible to our lives, in the liberal arts majors is the liberal.
Time to start taxing the ultra-rich one percenter welders to support philosophers, art historians and grievance studies graduates.
I worked as an engineer in a pulp plant in the very early 80s. Once a year it would shut down completely for repairs and we’d hire hundreds of pipefitters, welders, electricians - all trades from all over the southeastern US.
The standard pipefitter question over the phone was “What’s the takeout on a 6 inch 90?” These guys made a lot even back then.
If I could hold on to new knowledge, and didn’t mind owing financial debt to someone, and had energy, I’d learn how to weld and get out of NYC.
How difficult would it be for someone with no technical knowledge or experience to learn how to weld and weld good?
I’m not too sure I want to know, but what’s grievance studies?
If he wants warmer...
Gulf Coast set for Bakken-like boom with liquefied natural gas
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/23/gulf-coast-set-for-bakken-like-boom-with-liquefied-natural-gas/
Dozens of facilities are set to sprout up along the Louisiana and Texas coasts to liquefy natural gas from shale formations as far away as Pennsylvania and Ohio for export around the world. The energy boom, which is turning the U.S. into a net exporter, could drive liquefaction capacity to an eight-fold increase in the next five years alone, experts say. That could mean hundreds of thousands of new jobs along the Gulf Coast, by some estimates.
“From an economic development standpoint, it is going to be huge,” said Ragan Dickens, spokesman for the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. “It is incredibly exciting to know the region will see this influx of new jobs.”
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In just two years, the number of pipe fitters, welders, electricians and other skilled workers in the Gulf Coast will grow from roughly 62,000 to more than 103,000, driven in part by receipt and export terminals now under development by companies like Sempra Energy in Louisiana and Freeport LNG in Texas.
Labor leaders say the region could face a “dramatic shortage” of skilled hands, especially in the Gulf Coast. To combat that, Eric Dean, general secretary of Iron Workers International, said the 120,000-member union is ramping up its training regimen.
womyn's studies, black studies, environmental studies, etc. etc.
If it ends in "studies" and requires the students and professors to be angry, I read one author who grouped it under "grievance studies". I wish I could remember who it was but it was a great catchall for college programs like that.
Well, there IS a ‘Wage Gap’ After ALL!....................
Bookmark
one makes things and one probably wants to make people do things they otherwise wouldn’t do via government edict.
grievance studies:
How to make a college give you a diploma without really trying..................
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