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The second episode in the series focuses on welding, highlighting the variety of careers available from the viewpoints of artistic welder Mike Patterson, an alumnus of Williamsport Area Community College (a Penn College forerunner), adjunct faculty member and entrepreneur; and Jennifer Brinkley-Cruz, a 2005 Penn College alumna and manufacturing specialist for Toyota. The episode chronicles Patterson crafting a life-sized Great Blue Heron weather vane for a Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen show and follows Brinkley-Cruz on the floor at the Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing plant in Georgetown, KY, where she oversees 40 robotic welding cells. In addition, the episode illustrates the basics of welding with David Cotner, instructor of welding, and Martin Denault, a welding & fabrication engineering technology major, and features interviews with industry representatives at the Fabtech International and American Welding Society Welding Show in Chicago. The show’s website is: www.degreesthatwork.com

Oil rig jobs may be your answer if a thirst for adventure is driving you to look for a job more exciting than your average nine-to-five; offshore oil rigs may be just the option for you. You might think that since the paychecks in this industry are so huge, then there would be many people applying for these jobs in the oil industry. Now, if you are interested in a job on an oil rig, then you should take some time now and be sure you have got what it takes to work in this line of work.

Oil and gas companies may be desperate for people to crew their oil rigs, but this does not mean they are going to relax their safety standards.

In 2009 the oil and gas companies are spending around $400 billions to look for oil, so getting a oil rig job is not at all hard if you’re prepared.

If you are willing to learn and keep yourself motivated, then you can earn lots of money in the offshore oil industry. But, offshore installations are dangerous places, safety and safe working practices is what they all live and breathe.

If you have not worked with oil before, these are some of the jobs you can expect to get:

- Maintenance Roustabout ($47,000); Doing manual duties like general maintaince, cleaning, painting and moving equipment around.

- Roustabout ($54,500); Main duties is cleaning the pipes, guiding cranes as they loads and unloads and supplying the rig floor. You should also expect to assist Roughnecks on the drilling floor when they are to busy to get a lunch break. In this case, the roustabout will go have his meal, then go to the drill floor and give one Roughneck his break. Then each Roughneck take turns in having a meal break. Ruostabout are members of rhe strechers..

- Welder ($62,000); There are two kinds of welders, the rig welders are takes care of small day to day repairs on the metal work. They are always busy. When there is a big project often a squad of welders are hired to finish the job quickly. These guys move from rig to rig wherever their company has a contract.

I have a Welder that requires a 230 V 25 Amp power source and wanted a Generator that could supply that without going over board in price or excess power.

As someone experienced in this area, the answer is to work at home. I have been a stay at home mom for eleven years. Many of them successfully employed at home adding to our family’s income. But what does one do to work at home? There are so many work at home scams that just waste your money. Why not take advice from someone who is successfully working at home?

I have found building websites to be the perfect job for a stay at home moms. The hours are flexible, I can work while my children are napping or after they go to bed. Now that they are in school I can work while they are at school and still have time to volunteer in their classrooms and be home after school for them. You no longer need advanced computer skills to build websites with the programs they have available today. If you can read and follow directions, you can do it.

An information website provides an unlimited income potential. You do the work once and get paid over and over. You can sell products or sell advertising on your website. One thing I love about building websites is, when summer comes, I put my website on autopilot and can enjoy time with my kids and the income keeps coming in. When school starts again I can continue to add content and improve my sites.

It is also important to not completely loose yourself in your role as a mom. It is important to connect with other adults and have something of your own, instead of always just giving to others.