Welding Jobs: Ideas You Can Use At Home To Make Money Welding (No Boss While Earning $100,000)

What if you could make $100,000 a year welding from home?

What if you could earn even an extra $500 a month from home, using your current skills? If you are a welder with basic welding skills and are between jobs or underpaid at your current job, this article might be worth reading. Let’s think outside the box for just a minute about how you can do money welding from home.

From homemade solder #1:

Teaching or tutoring any skill is a very profitable business. In any city of any size, you will see at least one tutoring business in a strip mall brick and mortar location. In that same town there will be at least a dozen other tutors working from home, earning good money.

Yes, most of the time they are teaching math and reading to the students. Sit back and think about what skills you have that can also be used in a tutoring business that you can set up and earn cash like milk from a cow.

Let’s say you’re good enough with TIG to weld razor blades or soda can butts.

If you can teach someone who is not a welder to operate a TIG torch well enough to go ahead and practice on their own at home in about 3 hours from your hands to theirs, you will pay up to $100 per hour for 3 hours of instruction. TIG. Just 2 students a day would bring you $100,000 a year. If you think I’m kidding, I’m NOT! There are many reasons education is so valuable, and that includes intense, focused welding tutorials.

6G pipe welding is the highest paid of all welding certifications (most 6G welders earn between $100,000 and $300,000 a year) and the demand is incredible. However, if you’re a 6G welder and want to stay home, you can set up and teach 6G in your garage. Let’s say you do this with 7 students, each of whom pays you $10,000 for a 3-month course. Yes, they will pay for it, especially if you show them how they will spend more time with your hand over theirs (the #1 secret to learning 6G fast).

From homemade solder #2:

I was in Palm Springs the other day. I’ve been in the trades for 30 years…and when you see a dealer’s truck and it’s late model with no dents or many scratches, clean, organized and well equipped, it means (99% of the time) that guy is winning money.

I stopped at a traffic light behind one of those trucks: “Joe’s BBQ Service and Repair.” That’s all, that’s all Joe does. He will weld cast aluminum or steel. He will clean and polish. He will replace a burner or a control. Either he will buy the old unit from him and sell/sell you a new one.

Yes, you need a city with a lot of high-end barbecues. Other than that, go find him.

From homemade solder #3:

Large steel cuts. In art of all kinds, size matters. For example, 20 years ago we purchased two 4′ long coat racks – each is a 4′ long 1.5″ x 1.5″ x 1/8″ angle piece with 6 horseshoes welded to the angle for hanging coats.

On the horizontal surface of the angle is welded a scene made up of 7 horses and 7 trimmed trees. We paid $185 for each of these 20 years ago…that would be about $300 a piece in today’s dollars.

The problem with making these is that the 14 cuts on each unit are too small to cut by hand; you need a computerized plasma table to make them.

This is where the magic of size makes a difference.

The artist who drew the cutouts on our coat rack was nice. Each of the 7 horses is different and beautiful, just like the trees. Any or all of these cutouts can be chalk scaled onto a sheet of steel, say 4′ x 8′ x 3/16″. Now all you need is a plasma or oxy torch to create the large version .

What price would a horse cut from a 4′ x 8′ sheet sell for?

$300 to $700. It would depend on where you are and how you market it. Marketing is an important part of any business. Good marketing is not difficult, you can do it.

As you can see, if you could get a “deal channel” full of inventory and sales and were delivering 2 horses a day, you could easily make $100k. The other big opportunity with big cutouts is the doors. The key to all of these things in the art category is the beautiful line drawings. If you are not an artist, hire one on the condition that they sign the copyright to you.

There are endless ideas for using even your most basic home welding skills to make a great living or just earn extra money. The trick is:

Step A:

Find what will work best for you.

Step B:

Write a simple plan of attack. Don’t put the cart before the horse. Many small businesses fail because the owner gets wrapped up in the details and loses sight of what’s important. Here’s what’s important: Don’t spend money – MAKE MONEY!

Step C:

The first rule of business is to BE NOTIFIED. That is also the ultimate goal of all marketing: once you have enough eyes on you, you will be successful. The common mistake is to leave marketing for last while you focus on every little ruler and piece of paper. A business license won’t do you any good if you don’t make any money! Save your money and get it (if you really need it) when you win some money. Towns and cities will simply say, “do you have a business license?” When asked, say, “I’m going to get one now.”

Conclution:

You are lucky to live in a country where you can go from nothing to something in a hurry. However, getting anywhere in a hurry requires a lot of running. You’ll never regret.

What should you do next?