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I answered an ad for a welding job.
The asked me to demonstrate my skills assembling a (tower pic related)
I could tell immediately that these boneheads had tried to do it, and didn't know what they were doing. I looked around, and this was the only Aluminum job in the whole shop.
So I asked is this the only job, you need done? They had 6 welders fresh out of tech school, with no TIG training, and they were all standing around to watch me. They admitted that there was no full-time job, this was a one-off. I'm not gonna "demonstrate my skills" doing a job, with 6 noobs looking over my shoulder. If you wanna pay me to do the job, I'll do that. If you want to pay me to train 2 of your guys for a couple days, we can do that. What they really wanted was for their guys to learn. They gave me $2500 for 2 days, teaching.
Don't let people take advantage of you, but at the same time don't burn bridges.
2 weeks later they call me back and had steady Aluminum jobs coming in.