On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:18:14 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:47:49 -0500, HK wrote:


I suspect neither of you know what a steamfitter does. He doesn't
replace sewage traps.

I know what a steam/pipe fitter does.

It's a five year apprentice ship program - just like a freakin'
plumber.

The only difference is steam/high pressure welding.

Most of the union qualified welders flunked our basic vacuum welding (TIG)
test.

And, (scaringly) some held a "N" code for nuclear related welding.

What annoyed me was the whole equivilency thing.

What the job requires is a basic high school education - nothing more
or less. The rest is all OJT.

It took me 8 years after I graduated with a degree in math to finish
out my education and I was working the whole time.

Ain't no way a freakin' plumber's education is equivilent to that.