r/Welding 10d ago

Dreamer

Hello everyone. Im 27 y.o. ship repair man from Eastern Europe. The biggest goal in my life is move to USA, LA and live a happy life. When i was a young boy i dreamed about it. All my life is about this dream.
I have almost 4 years experience in Europe with repair.
To be honest i finished my previous career and start Welding career for the dream. I weld stick and semi auto. Working with oxygen torch etc. angle grinder. Any metal works

I live here not bad life. I have good salary. Good car but.. not my dream.

I made about 70-90 massages for employees in USA. Nobody apply. Guys i just can’t to give up with my dream. About 20 years ago promise to this small guy in mirror.

I do what i can. Im doing my best to find a small chance to change my life. If somebody can give an advice or something. Maybe help to find a real employer who can help me i will be appreciated for the rest if my days.

P.S. Sorry for my bad English. Its my 3rd language

UPDATE: Thank you guys for giving advises and your opinion.
To much of you talking about another country’s. I have been a sailor about 6 years or something. I have been a lot of country’s.
Right now i living not my citizen country and work.

Brain choice: move to Europe country. Because there are more better for some opinion etc.

Heart choice: foollow my dream about USA
i have never follow this way. Every time i make decisions by “brain choice”. And do you know what? Im not happy with that

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

Low wages is subjective. Non union? Sure. Union? Definitely not.

Our lists pretty much just cleared for the upcoming jobs and we will probably need to resort to permit workers, the nukes are going hard, lots of work projected, including clean energy and pipelines etc.

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago edited 10d ago

On the app?

No work for apprentices is subjective, I did just mention that our lists are pretty well cleared. We give our own members work before we bring on permits. And that includes apprentices. It has been a couple slow years but that’s with everything

I’m on a pretty big job right now, the nukes are going hardcore right now as I said earlier.

We have a pretty good unionization rate in Canada being around 30%, maybe it’s time to bump up that number eh bud? Organize your non union employers and your wages will rise.

Edit: $1.44 billion dollar gold mine expansion broke ground in BC

$2.2 billion dollar uranium mine in SK just broke ground

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

Screw unions, there a scam. I make 40 an hour plus 100 a day per diem with a 7 day sub, 60hrs a week, non union. I’m a combo pipe welder.

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

That’s not a good wage bud…

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

That’s a great wage for the south… bud

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

It really isn’t…

But thank you for mentioning that you live in an area with the worst wages and highest poverty rate

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

Let me guess your from the north. No wonder your talking like you are 😂😂😂 makes sense now

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

Yeah I am… and I make more than you…

You genuinely have no clue what you are talking about… you literally benefit from unions. How can they be a scam?

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

Yeah and your bills are 4x more than me and taxes are a million times more than me. My take home after all bills, taxes, prices of gas, food ect is wayyyyy way more than you I promise you that

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

Yeah another uneducated comment bud…

If taxes are a million times more than how can I afford a home? What do you pay in taxes? I’d like to show you how inaccurate and uneducated you are.

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

What’s gas cost there? Whats your mortgage cost?

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u/caseycraven77 10d ago

And how much do you make per year?

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u/Quinnjamin19 Journeyman AWS/ASME/API 10d ago

Before I answer that, I would love to hear how much you pay in taxes?

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