I was making more money than alot of people i know who went to college. I was welding on the pipeline. I was making 3 to 5k a week depending on the company/contractor. But i had to travel all the time and the places id go wasnt luxurious by any means. Freezin my ass off in south Dakota or Minnesota. I made alot of money but its hard work and u have to know wtf ur doing the x-ray all youre welds and could be really stressful at times. Id much rather have a nice office job making 80k a year wearing nice clothes around fine honeys rather than welding and making a 100k a year dirty as fuck no bitches and stuck in the middle of nowhere freezing or about to pass out frim a heat stroke in the summer working up to 17 hours a day 7 days a week. Cool thing was i could work like 6 months strait and take off for 4 or 5 months