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Bumped into a friend of mine who was doing some welding related courses and stuff at the same time as me a while back. Got to talking about what we were up to, he mentioned he spent about 3 months up in Ft.Mac, made enough money, now he has his own welding rig all setup and he travels in and out of FSJ and some other BC industrial sites in the comfort of his own vehicle, has all his own tools with him, can mobe and demobe in a matter of hours.

He just started contracting out like this and is already making 15k a month. Albeit you guys have to understand he works 25 days out of a month, has his rig expenses to pay as well as insurance, and even years ago when I knew him, he was one of the best welders I knew. But still if I were to ever go back to the tools thats the route that I would go. Nothing beats having your own welding machine and tools with you, and if shit ever gets ugly, you can just drive off into the sunset.

EDIT: Wow just reading through this thread, more industrial workers on RS than I thought. Catching up on this thread, and i'm reading a lot of familiar job sites. Good to see more people not afraid to stray from the pack and pursue in this field. There's A LOT of money to be made.