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What kind of welding did you do?
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I was certified with MIG unlimited thickness mild steel flat/vertical/overhead. I got into building lift trucks and they paid for my cetification test and gave a 50 cent/hr raise if anyone passed it so I jumped on the opportunity and passed first try. It really was quite easy just time consuming to fill up that gap between 2 one inch plates that had been sliced at 45 degrees. (like this \ / ) It took about an hour to complete and now I have the cert card that never expires in Ohio.
We built custom designed lift equipment (like fork lifts but for a specific need) and some of the guys there went off and formed their own company to compete with the original place. They called me andwanted me to work there so I went to check it out. They had 2- 5,000 watt laser cutting machines, 300 ton brake presses and all kinds of new equipment to make my life easier so I took the job. I ended up being the only person in the shop to do the assembly which entailed all hydraulics (layout, routing, making hoses and plumbing it all) all electrical (layout, running all cables and terminating them properly) and also welding the chassis together. That's why I just tell people "fabricator" because it was really a little of everything. I really liked the job because I got to figure out how to solve a problem, then build it and draw it up for the engineers to document, then my design was in the books and would always be used unless there was a flaw or improvement found.
Here's a link to the second place where I was the only assembler. I did the site for them too and the cheesey flash intro since they wanted "something exciting" on the front page but I left a way to click past since those flash intros are so over used and waste dial-up bandwidth. The last truck I worked on there was a 240,000 lb capacity die-changing truck that was 12 ft wide and 16 ft long it was shipped from Ohio to Mexico by truck. It was neat, lifted 240,000 lb block of steel and could pull or push it onto the table or onto the machine that used them.
They had another guy there that did the TIG welding and I never got a chance to learn that but always wanted to.
I have a lot less cuts/burns/scrapes now just staying home.
-- itZme