Airen Hale
About welding
Lon hale
4/7/15
Careers 7

Why I Chose This Job
I chose this job because I wanted to learn more about welding. I wanted to know what they do because I had no idea what they did. I also picked this job because my dad ( the one who I interviewed ) does this and I wanted to know more about where he works.

Continued.
I would also describe this job as dangerous because your going to be working with fire so you need to wear protective gear. In this job you have to be careful or you might screw up. This job might be hard to you but it depends on your work backgrounds.

How I Describe This Job.
When I describe this job I would say it's when a person welds two things together welding is when you take almost like a torch and metal and they react and stick together but you usually use machines to do this and connect the metal. After you just build what you have to.

About The Interviewee and Education.
The person I interviewed (my dad) is a welder and he builds ship for this job you should have two years of technical school but he got in from prior experience of working with ships and boats. But he does have an associates degree.

INFORMATION SLIDE 1 - CAREERS

• He was introduced to this career by a headhunter in other words they found him.
• He works second shift.
• He started this job about a year ago.

INTERVIEW SLIDE 2 - EDUCATION

• You must be eighteen years of age to start this job.
• My interviewee usually welds steel, Tidwell, aluminum, and stainless steel.
• He works with a lot of equipment but here are some metal forming equipment and welders.
• He works as an outfitter they fabricate and install everything in a ship and occasionally he makes things for the ships.
• He works for the company called Marinette Marine Corporation.

INFORMATION SLIDE 3 - CAREER

• He does have on-the-training and he gets sent to college classes to do them.
• He works a total of 40 hours a week which is 8 hours a day.
• He likes his work shift because he says there's fewer people around and it's less crowded.
• I asked him how much money he makes annually and he said it changes day to day because sometimes he gets a raise but around 40-90 thousand annually
• What he likes most about his career is being active and looking at the finished project.

INFORMATION SLIDE 4 - CAREERS

• He does wear safety gear such as steel toed shoes, safety glasses, a hard hat a face shield, welding helmet, protective jeans (no shorts) and a leather jacket
• What he doesn't like about his job is working in crowded spaces and catching on fire every now and then.
• He works on Literal Combat Ships in his job.
• He like to weld whatever needs welding.

INFORMATION SLIDE 5 - CAREERS

• He works 3pm to 11pm and he gets a break to eat dinner at 7:00 pm
• He would recommend this job to people because even if you don't know how to weld they train you.
• I asked him if he would like to tell me anything else and he said in his job he builds ships for the U.S Navy.

Interview Slide 6
I still like this job and I feel like I like this job more because I learned more about it. I feel like this job is fun and suits me pretty well so I like this job but it does have a lot of challenges like there's always that chance of catching on fire and that's dangerous and it looks like a pretty tough job to go into but I still like it.

My Reflections
I feel like this interview went really good because he answered all the questions without any doubts. I don't think it was challenging at all. I think the simple part was listening to the answer and writing it down.

My Reflections
If I were to pick something to do differently I would say repeating questions because when I was writing down the questions I repeated a lot of them. I would also make him answer the questions more thorough because they were kind of short.

My Reflections
I am still interested in this career I think I am more interested because I learned more about it. Another reason is that I got to learn what kinds of ships they build and what kind of jobs they place you in like my dads an outfitter. I still want to learn more about this job so I can learn more about it.

WORK CITED

• Hale, Lonny. Personal Interview. 7 Apr. 2015