As a structural welder I've always been perplexed when people complain about how hard the job is. Welding when done right is fantastically fun and easy. You check all your connections and settings then check your machinery to make sure it's functioning properly, lay out your tools you're gonna be using after hooking all your equipment up, get comfortable and start burning wire or rod depending on the process needed for the job. The next few hours go like minutes and before you know it, it's lunch time. After lunch it's all downhill and before you know it, the whistle blows and away you go. On one job a guy was whining at lunch break that he hated welding, he'd rather get an ass whipping than weld. I commented that he must not be doing it right. Oh man, he was livid with rage and I just looked at him, I totally didn't get it. Then he asked me where I learned to weld and I replied that I had spent six months in trade school before I got a job in the trade. He busted up laughing, mocking me for paying money to go to a trade school and boasting how he learned on the job. I replied, "That must be why you hate the job so much, you didn't really learn the trade". Asshole never spoke to me again and I couldn't have cared less.