mrvmax wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:49 amGet all the API certs you can and be an inspector. It’s a great technical field and it pays well, the more certs and experience the greater the pay. I’ve been in chemical plants for 24 years now and if I started over again I’d go that route. It doesn’t hurt to have welding experience either but it’s not necessary.boxermoose wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:19 pm I got my son into it after high school and he’s made a go of it working first in NDT and then getting his API certs. Works for an embedded crew in one of the refinery’s
He’s 27, with overtime he makes close to $100k a year and loves it. Took 4 years experience to get to this rate
The local college San Jac has a good program
I was suggesting the same welding + NDT to a student just last week. My older brother did this for NASA for close to 40 years.