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Originally Posted by jasonturbo
Good luck getting an entry level job in inspection/qc, that market is so flooded with people wanting to join the gravy train it's crazy. You pretty much need a great collection of tickets and a stellar resume, or be related to someone to have any chance of getting hired. Typiclly the entire spread is already full of people "wanting to move into QC", so it's tough.
Mind you, could always just get lucky!
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If you actually have your welding ticket, and then move into QC you have an enormous advantage over the other 90% of idiots who just studied B31.3 and went and passed a test. A lot of those guys get run off job after job cause they have no idea wtf they are talking about when it comes to actually telling a welder whats going on.
They have the technical knowledge, but not the practical application.
I would take a b-level welder who is fresh on the inspection side, rather than most inspectors with no welding experience.
My justification of that is how can you tell someone how to do their job if you have never done it?
Either way though even if I was only looking for welders having that inspection ticket is a huge bonus, and its just one more thing to make you that much more valuable to any potential employer.