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It might be fun to tell or show off your recent shopping trip finds. I love hearing about new gadgets, and great bargains, steals, or splurges!
To start us off, I just broke down and bought a pink glitter Le Creuset spatula with a wooden handle. I don't need it, but it was crying out to me!
Also my friend and I went to an estate sale last weekend and I found a collection of beautiful and fun wine bottle stoppers. Some were clear or colored crystal, some were pewter, others were metal or ceramic. I got two different hearts, a fleur de lys, a little ship, a bejweled looking pineapple, and a pink flamingo for 8 bucks. Quirky and cute!
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I had to chuckle when I read your post CG. . . I too am the proud owner of a pink glitter Le Creuset spatula with a wooden handle!! I don't recall when or where I purchased it but I do know that it still makes me smile every time I pull it out of the drawer!
I went to the Le Creuset outlet last weekend just to check it out. I had been thinking of getting a dutch oven for a little while.
Well, I ended up getting a 5.5 qt round in Kiwi because they had some 1st quality stuff in that color. I sort of wanted a Signature one because of the bigger handles, but I couldn't justify paying the extra money at W-S just for that. I also got a stainless steel knob, large gratin dish (lilac), square ramekin (cobalt), and a large silicone trivet (kiwi). Getting 5 items total got me 40% off, which was cheaper than buying the oven alone with my 15% off one item coupon. Altogether it was just under $200.
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What's an active cooling ice cream maker??
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An icecream maker which has an builtin cooling compressor compared to a passive one where you have a cooling component which has to be cooled in the freezer. Active cooling allows you to run unlimited batches and gives you smoother ice cream
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Thanks. I have a "passive" one. But gotta say that the French vanilla one I made today (from a cooked custard base) was very, very smooth.
re: c oliver
There is no doubt that you can make excellent ice cream with a passive cooling ice cream maker but we want to make more ice cream batches with different flavors at the same time which is nearly impossible (you would need multiple cooling components) with a passive one. Active cooling also helps to have consistent low temperature whereas a passive one slowly gets warmer which can be an issue depending on your style of ice cream and ingredients (e.g. small amounts of alcohol etc)
re: honkman
That could be a definite advantage for many people. Thanks for the education.
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I just saw this yesterday and have been in serious wanting mode since. Look, it's almost 50% off!
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I have one and LOVE it, just made 2 batches of Coconut Milk ice cream. One with coco powder, coffee powder, vanilla, and white choc chips. The other with fresh strawberries, both Delicious. The machine is a dream to operate and the finish product gets gobbled up quickly. Cantalope sorbet later in the week.
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That doesn't tempt ME as ice cream is a pretty rare thing in our house. But I have duly noted their $2.95 flat rate shipping on everything!!!!!
re: c oliver
Nice, isn't it!
re: buttertart
That's pretty much the everyday price at Amazon, so I wouldn't get too excited.
re: ferret
Good to know, I hadn't been following the price of them closely.
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They make a "Pro" and a "Junior" at Amazon. The link is for the Pro.
I bought this several years ago when it was $399, but they had a special for $349 -- not much more than the Cuisinart. However, the machine is VERY heavy, an noisy. I think I have two bowls. I just read in some of my correspondence a guy said he bought the smaller unit and loved it, but wished he had bought the larger one.
This purchase was one of those luxury items that I thought I'd never purchase. I had used all of the "put the bowl in the freezer" ones since they first came out with the one with the crank many decades ago.
The cows on the farm aren't giving much cream now and I use it all up for coffee cream so I'm in a quandry. I've heard that the heavy-duty pasteurized cream just doesn't cut it.
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Thanks. I'm still resisting because it's really only I who would be eating tha major part of the output...I've made ice cream with the UHT cream before and liked it, but I bet it wouldn't be anywhere near like farm-fresh cream. I still have extremely fond memories of Jersey cream I had a long time ago.
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You anywhere near Montreal, buttertart? I graciously volunteer to help you eat your ice cream made with fresh cream. Seriously, I would pay ridiculous amounts of $ to anyone who wanted to sell me that.
re: montrealeater
Would that I did, montrealeater. NJ is a wee bit far from la belle province.
re: ferret
That price is the same price everyday almost everywhere year 'round. That is the sale price set by Cuisinart. You are not gettiing a deal. It is a game lots of mfg's play.
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You are quite welcome. Buy the machine, it is great but don't think you are getting a deal. Maybe BB&B would let you use one of their ubiquitous coupons. I just got one for $25 off any purchase of $125 or more.
You will love the machine. I love good ice cream and it is the best IC machine I have ever had.
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I have that and I love it. But, Suzanne, don't kid yourself on that price. That $299 is the real everyday price. Trust me. It is a ploy.
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How are you liking the SVS?
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We got it very recently and didn't have really time to play around with it yet but since our copy of Modernist Cuisine will arrive soon we will use it quite a lot in a few weeks
re: honkman
Just dive in, no need to wait for your copies of modernist cuisine to come in. You have to try really hard to screw up food when cooking sous vide :P Its going to take you at least a month to give modernist cuisine a quick browse anyway, I was quite shocked at the amount of information in the books.
Cowboy, Im using a sous vide supreme as well, but if I had it to do all over again I would purchase one of these
and sous vide in an icechest simply because you can cook so much more food.
re: twyst
I think it was unclear from my writing that I agree that it is not necessary to wait for MC to cook with sous-vide but just looking at the egullet MC discussion I am sure that once we have our copy of MC we really can dive deep into sous-vide.
I kind of agree that it is hard (but not impossible) to screw up sous vide but if you are planning to cook close to the danger zone (what we are planning for some stuff) I highly recommend to get either the Baldwin book or online tables about how long to cook what to pasteruize/kill all bacteria.
re: twyst
How do you like the SVS? Anything that's not obvious from their sales pitch/product description?
Twyst, it's interesting how freshmealssolutions keeps developing their sous vide technology. They keep on adding components to their basic PID until what they've got is basically an inelegant immersion circulator that costs under $300.
I've been using their basic Sous Vide Magic for a year and a half now. Good piece of equipment. I recommend it. Made a post about using one after I first got it.
I have a pretty big slow cooker, but on the very rare occasions where bath size has been a problem, I've resorted to what I started out doing - a 16 quart stockpot over low heat on the stovetop.
I am eagerly waiting for my set of Modernist Cuisine (a birthday present from just about everyone I know). If anyone knows when Amazon is expected to restock finally, I'd be glad to hear it.
re: cowboyardee
According to Nathan they expect that the second printing will slowly starts to get send to cusomers end of July. It's currently on thr way to the US (at least the first shipment). So it will depend when you ordered your book if you get it end of July or much later
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How do you know you paid too much? Plus, if you did, the deal you got on the All Clad cancels it out ;-)


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The best chocolate chip cookies I've ever made. A little bit of an oatmeal taste/texture compared to regular cookies, but so good. My husband actually finished off the first batch!
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These cookies are so yummy . If you want to make them more chewy you can substitute your butter for the same amour of apple sauce. It taste just the same if you would of added butter. It also makes it a bit healthier.
2 things to make them less crumbly and more yummy:
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I recognize these changes make the cookie slightly less healthy, BUT they taste a bazillion times better and are still a much healthier alternative than traditional chocolate chip cookies
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Is faith of our fathers living still in US?
When the murdered U.S. ambassador and three Navy SEALs came back to Andrews Air Force Base, the messages by the secretary of state and the president were very moving. However, I was even more impressed by the hymns, "Nearer My God To Thee," and "America — God Shed His Grace on Thee."
Especially so, since it was only a few days ago when the delegates at the Democratic Convention stood and shouted, "No" three times to God. You will remember that the liberal wing of the Democratic party took the words "God" and "Jerusalem" out of the platform, and the delegates were called to order to put them back. The vote was taken three times, and it sounded like the no's had won, and goodbye God. However, the chairman, rather than throw the convention into utter confusion, gave a questionable ruling on the third voice vote that the "yea's" had it, and it passed.
Shades of William Jennings Bryan! He must be spinning in his grave! Oh, you don't know who he is? He ran for president three times, and was defeated by McKinley twice and Taft once.
Similar to President Obama, he came out of nowhere when he concluded his speech on free silver at the Democratic National Convention with the words, "You shall not press down on the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." The convention went wild, and although Bryan was only 36 years old, he was nominated. Through his newspaper, the Commoner, he spoke for many reforms: popular election of senators, prohibition, creation of the Department of Labor, the federal banking system and women's suffrage. They were all accepted.
If he were living today, he might well ask, "What happened to my Democratic Party?"
Someone said, "Liberals have gone through Heaven and taken the gold out. They have gone through Hell and taken the fire out. The have gone through our hymns and taken the blood out. And they have gone through our nation and tried to take God out."
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In Cindy Larson's column, "Local women voice views on reproductive rights debate, 'war on women,' (Sept. 28)" she writes, "When laws regarding reproductive rights are written, debated and voted on in this country, men still largely make the rules." Pro-choice men make the rules, too. Remember, it was nine men who exclusively decided the fate of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton: Warren E. Burger, William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William Rehnquist.
Should we overturn those decisions because nine men made these rules? Are we to exclude the opinions of all men or just those standing up for the lives of pre-born boys and girls? Issues don't have genders, people do.
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Hank Achor apparently doesn't understand the economics of business building. Like President Obama he believes businesses are built by the government. He uses investment from NASA in the 1960s as an example of how Steve Jobs was able to ultimately create the Apple company.
First of all, NASA is funded by federal dollars. Where does the federal government get their funds? Out of the pocket of taxpayers, including small businesses. Those same taxes that fund government programs that enable other companies to create technology did produce jobs. The taxes those companies paid to the federal and state governments also pay for all of the roads they use. The government also takes taxes from employees who work at those companies. So essentially businesses did build themselves while also financing the layers of waste and fraud in D.C., including government programs.
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In this entertaining feature for the 3- to10-year-old set, the wicked witch Hydia (voice of Cloris Leachman) and her two nasty daughters, Reeka and Draggle (voices of Rhea Pearlman and Madeline Kahn) are scheming to flood Ponyland with a strange liquid called Smooze. The ponies find allies in the Grundles, who have already been made homeless by the Smooze. The challenge is to stop the witch and her daughters, send them back into their volcano, and retrieve the lost land of the Grundles from under its cover of Smooze -- not to mention protecting Ponyland from the worst. Not an easy agenda, even after several adventures gear everyone up for the grand finale.~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Cast: Susan Blu, Michael Bell, Charles Adler, Tammy Amerson, Sheryl Bernstein
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Date: 4 Oct 1957
The Sputnik 1 (PS-1) satellite is shown here on a rigging truck in the assembly shop in the fall of 1957 as a technician puts finishing touches on it.
When the development of the first advanced scientific satellite, Object D, proved to be more difficult than expected, the Soviets decided to launch a simpler, smaller satellite. PS-1, or Sputnik 1, began development in November 1956.
On 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Sputnik shocked the world, giving the USSR the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space and putting the United States a step behind in the space race.
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Kjetil Jansrud was just edged out of the win in the first of two World Cup Super G races in Kvitfjell, Norway by a mere three hundredths of a second. With Beat Feuz and Klaus Kroell tied for the win, this matched Jansrud's best result in a World Cup Super G, from Val Gardena earlier this season. Behind him came Didier Cuche, Aksel Lund Svindal and Matthias Mayer in places four to six, with Mayer just half a second from the win.
With Jansrud in great form having won both training runs for the downhill down the 1994 Olympic course, Jansrud took the lead from fellow HEAD World Cup rebel and another man in form, Matthias Mayer. With this result Mayer has moved up level with Bode Miller in twelfth place in the season long standings. Miller is still recovering from his injury and has announced that he will take the rest of the season off.
"From the middle section and down I skied well," said HEAD World Cup Rebel Jansrud. The Norwegian recovered from a shaky start and then used the speed he generated to good effect on the run in to the finish. "Really, it's a privilege to be on the podium. The three hundredths are frustration, more than anything. I'm certainly not the first guy to lose by those numbers."
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The voters have spoken and we have to respect their will, Hickenlooper said. This will be a complicated process, but we intend to follow through. That said, federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so dont break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.
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Representing the Institute at Laser North was reality-television star Nathan Fast. Saturday brought heavy rain, wind, and thunder to the USMMA waterfront. During the only race held on Sunday, Nate was all alone in the boat when his boom failed catastrophically. Luckily, it wasn't his boat and they gave him another one to sail on Sunday.
Sailing conditions were light on Sunday, similar to Cornell. Nathan managed to get around the course three times, defeating armies of Laser sailors from colleges called Hobart and USMMA. Nate sailed consistently to a 4th place finish out of 15 competitors, qualifying for the next round of Laser action!
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Snakebite Cortez Demo 2012
Humbly submitted for your enjoyment and education on who I am and what I do. Certain people tend to think I just work in comics. Well, thats just wrong. I do it all. I'm an artist and here's my demo to back my word.
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Try it again, the video's not showing up.
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I'm bummed out. its not linking. I checked my privacy settings and it should work...hmmm, maybe you try embedding it using the link.
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Looks like it's a problem on Vimeo's end. They must've changed something. People are complaining in the Vimeo forums. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. It's working in some cases but not everywhere. Depends on how you're embedding it? Strange.
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Wow...I'm honored bro. that was huge! thank you so much for the words! I really appreciate it and it's been an honor to be associated with you, The Animation Academy and AnimationNation! FIST HIGH!
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By November 24, when this year's Formula 1 World Championship ends, it will be seven long years since Fernando Alonso Diaz claimed the second of his two titles.
'O duelo final' was the Brazilian billing for the 18th and final race of the 2006 season, because it pitted F1's new young lion Alonso of Renault against the retiring king, Michael Schumacher of Ferrari. In the end neither man won at Interlagos that October day: an incredibly youthful-looking Felipe Massa, clad not in Ferrari red but in special green-and-gold Brazilian overalls for the day, did the job instead.
But second place was more than enough for Alonso to secure his second straight title, and his post-race words make it clear that the thought it might be his last never entered his own young head.
"It has been a fantastic weekend and now I probably need some time to believe that I'm champion again," he said. "I'm 25 years old, two championships now and two constructors' as well.
Last race for Renault after five years, fantastic way to finish the relationship with this success."
Bubbling with as yet unquenched ambition, Alonso was off – temporarily.
McLaren was his next destination, and an ill-starred one it was. Teamed with the incoming Lewis Hamilton, Alonso never gelled in the Woking team – think square pegs and round holes – and that makes it all the more ironic that current McLaren chief Martin Whitmarsh should have publicly courted the Spaniard during the recent Singapore Grand Prix.
McLaren's 2007 season unravelled under the 'spygate' scandal and the team's access to secret Ferrari technical data; ironically, Alonso's return to Renault in 2008 was followed by his involvement in an equally damaging episode, the so-called 'Crashgate' incident in that year's inaugural Singapore Grand Prix when teammate Nelsinho Piquet's accident contributed to the circumstances that allowed Alonso through for an unlikely win from 15th on the grid.
By the end of 2009 Alonso was on the move once more, this time to what seemed like a much more natural environment for a fiery, red-blooded Spaniard: Ferrari.
Four seasons later, despite 11 victories for the Scuderia, Alonso and Ferrari are empty-handed as a partnership. Even he has acknowledged that while he will never stop trying, he needs an enormous slice of luck if he is to hunt down Sebastian Vettel for the 2013 crown.
Ferrari team chief Stefano Domenicali himself admitted that fact when he said, with an ironic shrug, that the wrong Red Bull stopped in Singapore. That would be Mark Webber's #2 car, not Vettel's #1, and Alonso knows it better than most because he gave the Australian the lift back to pit lane that incurred the wrath of the Singapore stewards.
His story and Webber's have gone almost hand-in-hand since they came into F1 in successive years in 2001 and 2002. They both drove first for Minardi, making their debuts in Australia; this year they both celebrated their 200th race start in Bahrain. And they have provided us with the most breathtaking moments of recent years in their side-by-side battles at 300kms per hour, each trusting the other implicitly in manoeuvres like the Australian's breathless passing move on the Spaniard at Spa's Eau Rouge.
Alonso took great delight in posting a picture of the two of them at dinner together before that Bahrain milestone, and they even interviewed each other for BBC Sport. "It's good to battle with someone you respect and the battle can be fair," said Alonso. But his most telling comment came when he thought F1's pressure had altered their relationship, especially in the momentous 2010 five-way fight for the title.
"I wanted to win; second choice was Mark," he said. "Nothing changed in our relationship. It was even better, I think. I think at the end we were even closer than at the beginning." Now Alonso is citing Webber, along with Michael Schumacher, as examples of competitive longevity in the sport as he seeks an extension to his Ferrari contract – which already runs to the end of 2016, by which time the Spaniard will be 35.
Like Webber, he is a rounded individual, one who makes his own contribution outside sport, particularly as a national Ambassador for UNICEF. 'Wet, rub, rinse' is not the sort of mantra you usually hear a Grand Prix driver intoning; they were the words Alonso was trying to drive into young people's heads in India last year as he helped publicise the campaign for simple hand-washing among that country's young, five of whom he also personally administered with the oral polio vaccine.
He has his own Foundation, as so many sportspeople do, as a source for good in the world, but he was disappointed recently when his bid to rescue the Euskaltel Euskadi cycling team came to nothing.
As well as age, personal happiness may have something to do with the relative serenity we see in Fernando Alonso today. Divorced from his Spanish pop star wife last year, he has clearly taken great delight in the youthful company of Russian model Dasha Kapustina, holidaying with her in Mallorca and elsewhere.
The only unfinished business for the man who practises magic tricks, follows Real Madrid and drives rather fast appears to be on track. If he is starting from zero in his personal life, perhaps that will be the key to professional success as well.
"Our opponents are doing a better job," he admitted after another brilliant – but vain – pursuit of Vettel in Singapore. "In sport the best one wins and we are not the best ones at the moment, so we will keep working."
Next season, however, everyone starts with a clean sheet of paper – or a blank computer screen. The radical switch to turbo-charged engines means the fight for competitive advantage will be more intense than ever, and Alonso is pinning his hopes on Ferrari to rise to the challenge.
As at Singapore on September 22, eight races had come and gone without a Fernando Alonso victory. His first Ferrari season yielded five of them; since then it's been just one, three and, this year, two. Sometimes starting from zero is the only way to go…


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It's not only welding. This trend goes on everywhere. I am in an odd age bracket of 22-25 I started welding and wrenching professionally when I was 16 so I have 8 years experience. I have seen so many guys come and go. No one wants to labor whether they are a welder, carpenter, bricklayer and so on. There is a overwhelming attitude of entitlement in the workplace nowadays. I am currently working for a smaller shotcrete / iron worker outfit in a rural area outside Detroit. I have noticed the Workforce in this small town is better than when I lived in the city bit not by much. In my opinion the problem is to much had been given away for free.
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Too much for free?
I think the issue is more complex than that. The people in Western Societies have had their value system skewed over the last 50+ years. We have been convinced that a paper framed on the wall is more valuable than 20 years of hands on experience in the real world. Why do we think an accountant with a pencil and a cheap computer is worth 100+ dollars an hour and an experienced welder should work (in many places) for less than 20?
The metal industry is particularly bad at valuing themselves in my opinion. Why does a plastic signal light housing retail for 130$ and a brake rotor sells often below 25$? Overall there is a lot more capital expense involved to produce the rotor than there is to produce the light and likely more labor and higher skilled as well. I am often surprised at how cheap we produce metal parts and how expensive plastic is. This is only one example you see many others every day.
I put the cause of this on too many lawyers in government and an education system that has developed a serious rot at its core. To put it simply, lawyers like to make laws(even where a little common sense would do) it is what they do, The educational system is advanced to the point where it is feeding on its self and has driven the public to believe that you can't safely pick your nose without an advanced degree in nose pickery and three government certifications with monthly inspections by inspectors with multiple doctorates in quantitative and qualitative theory and procedures of pickery.
Anyway I love a little rant with my morning coffee. Enjoy the season everyone(gotta stay politically correct).
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There have been several threads on the lack of _skilled_ workers here over the last couple of years. I seem to recall reading (in other words, I probably am completely wrong :-) somewhat frequently that there are something on the order of 1 million open jobs in manufacturing/etc that companies can't fill because they can't find the skilled workers ... in other words, if they just wanted to hire weldors who could stick plain ol carbon steel together with mediocre results there are plenty of folks to hire but they want someone who can do tig joints on some superdooper s.xy alloy, while hanging upside down in a hurricane and have it meet clean-room specifications ... and all those guys already have jobs.
This is not just a problem in manufacturing or trades ... it hits engineering, science, etc jobs as well too. I work for an R&D company with about 500 employees. We have 68 openings, of which 60 are for technical people (everything from summer interns to senior research/experimental physicists). I've done college recruiting in the past, lots of new science & engineering graduates named Chin or Srinivasan ... not so many named John or Jane. John and Jane party for four years, get degrees in Medieval Flute Playing, wonder why they can't get jobs, and then go occupy Wall Street. Chin & Srini study for 18 hours a day, get advanced degrees in engineering or science, start a company and make big bux (or their visa expires, go back to the old country, and start the company there).
I expect it's the same in welding and other trades ... the guy who stopped learning when he found out that 6010 was a decent all around rod is probably not finding as many jobs as the guy who knows stick, mig, tig, different alloys and positions and ... well, you get the idea.
Sorry for the rant ... but I'm feeling much better now.
Merry Christmas to all (and to all a good night?)
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Sounds as if this problem is everywhere. I have been welding since 1968. Had my own rig since 1975. Company I am working through right now has a huge list of people who can pass a test but have alot if problems in the field. Anyone that can purchase a truck n a welder n a few tools and pass 1 test can get hired, no precious experience required. It's really sad that our trade, in some areas, has been brought down to this current situation. I personally worked as a single hand for approx 6-7 years, learning the way to do things correctly. If I didn't know how to do something, in my spare time, I would get the book out and learn it. Just not that way anymore. They see $$$$ signs only.
I blame the dot com era. I went to vocational school and learned to weld in 1984. Then the internet started taking off and the dot com era was born.
So many people made money doing nothing really. They sat in their Silicon Valley start-up office playing pool and eating free bagels. (I know because I did it for a few years)
For the last two decades, college has been jammed down our throats. Our kids have been taught they can have an easy life if they get a degree. Trade schools aren't viewed as important anymore. Now we're short on welders and other skilled trades. People don't know what it's like to work hard. These kids today don't even have to walk down the street to see if a friend wants to play. They sit on the couch and text 5 different people in 20 seconds.
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I am in my mid-20's and I have a BSF, that is for Forestry. Turns out I don't want to work for the Feds so where does that leave me? I love working with my hands and being outside. Currently working on mastering stick and learning tig so I can start a career in welding and fab. I ran machinery for a while and that was sweet, but I had more fun fabricating stuff for the machines when they broke.
I might be young, but I have a pretty diverse background. Another thing that sets me apart is that virtually my entire family is involved in small business, mostly owning and running. I see what taxation, regulation and more government does. And it is not any good! If I want something I am going to work my a$$ off to get said item. People my age are a bunch of pu$$ys that need to shut up and try to work for something. It pisses me off.


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