Skilled Trade Industry Articles

While our program is named “pipefitting,” the skills detailed in this 6.5 month course may also be applied toward careers as pipelayers, boilermakers, plumbers and steamfitters. All of these fields are interrelated but contain their own specialties and areas of expertise. During your training, you may find that you gravitate to a specific portion of […]

Certain trades offer workers incredible opportunities in terms of transferability. Because commercial welding techniques are the same across the globe, welders may find work in a number of countries outside of their native homelands. Instead of being restricted to a certain location, experience in welding grants practitioners the ability to travel to essentially anywhere there […]

Plumbing and pipefitting are often put into the same category in terms of career classification, but within the trade, there are a number of differences that distinguish one title from the other. Tasks and Responsibilities Plumbers install, repair, and assemble systems for heating, drainage, and water transportation. These systems will usually be connected to public […]

Where Can You Find the Work of Welders? Welding has many applications in many different fields. For thousands of years, metals have been joined together to create basic structures and tools. In the 21st century, where some machines are smaller than the size of a fingertip, welding work may look different, but the basic principles […]

Women Should Consider a Career in Welding Whether you just graduated from high school, recently ended your service with the military or simply want to find a new career, the Tulsa Welding School in Tulsa, OK and Jacksonville, FL has programs that can have you trained for a new career in as little as seven […]

Welding in the 1940s In 1941, when the United States sent her men to war, literally millions of women stepped up and successfully filled those vacated work places in what were very non-traditional roles for them. Rosie the Riveter became the symbol of these women tackling jobs such as welding, running heavy machinery, and building […]

People who like working with their hands and who don’t necessarily want to work a traditional desk or office job may want to consider studying welding. Welding is a skilled trade with diverse career options, and while some trade schools offer welding programs, Tulsa Welding School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, focuses on welding in our professional […]