Job App - Bricking it

[Fairies attack]

Today I sent off the application forms for going to Kuwait, to be a welder.

It's not the job that is getting to me it is the welding test the I need to pass to get the job, and fly out there.

For the past 5 1/2 years i've been welding, the first 8months was just practice to get up to Asme 9 standard, in MMa and TIG. Then I left to be a Fabricator and spent the rest of my working time doing structural stuff in MIG, MMA, TIG. All of it was tested to coded standard and all passed easy as piss.

But when at college getting the paper work to be a Fabricator, all my welds kept failing to be up to standard, then back at work the next day they were back to my normal standard. I think it is the mind set of it isn't important, so I don't really try to keep up with the standard required. And that is what is getting to me right now.

If I go into a welding bay with 2 plates and get told to blat them together, then it will be a half arsed attempt because to me it won't be anything important and if it gets messed up it won't matter, because they will just go in the bin. But if I was given a stringer or strut to do under test conditions then all would come out fine.

I might just be sounding silly right now and making a mountain out of mole hill, but it really is getting to me.

How do you get in to the mind set of test conditions and loose the head that it doesn't matter because it can just be thrown in the bin?

[thegubner]

Err its for a job you WANT, so fucking grow up and realise it DOES matter.

Thankyoupleasecuntchops.

[Fairies attack]

Cheers for the advise Guv, plain and blunt like always.

It is more the mind set than anything else. IF it isn't holding up a building, then it doesn't really matter to me. IT has sort of been drilled into me from my last job, where if it was just a bracket for a handrail panel then it could be blatted on but if it was load bearing, then it had to be done properly.

[potato]

You only got to do it once, whats the big deal.

If it was a daily/ weekly thing then i would understand.
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[thegubner]

Blunt for a reason. I have no idea how old you are but I'm 27, I fucked around with my youth, fucked up all of my prospects and just swaggered around being an arrogant little cunt.

From what I know of you online I think you're a twat, you may be different in real life I don't know.

But the thing is if you've been telling the truth all these years about your work then you have a set of skills I'd fucking kill for! So to see someone saying it doesn't matter angers me, it matters!

I got turned down by a fucking chip shop for work the other day!

Make it matter you cunt.

[potato]

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[thegubner]

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[The Shaggy D.A.]

If I was employing a chef and told him to make me a top quality meal, do you think I'd employ him if he presented beans on toast where the beans are cold and the toast burnt? And his attitude was one of "It's ok, I can cook much better things, it's just that you weren't going to eat it so it doesn't matter"? You've got one shot to prove you can walk the walk, treat it like your job depends on it.

Oh hang on, it does.
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[Chinaboy]

I tried to give you advice before, so you have to see what happens.
If you ended up with crap results in your tests at college, then I think you need to learn a little more about setting up a welding plant. Setting up a MIG is not as simple as you might think.
You would not have finished your college course if you were not able to complete the welding unit to the course's syllabus, so what happened? did you give up on it?
The machines you use every day in your work will already be setup for your conditions so you know how it handles, setting thew one at college that everyone abuses on a daily basis takes a bit more skill.

Good luck with the app though you'll fucking need it !!!.

edited: because I changed my mindset to 'can't be arsed'

[MattJ]

Not completing a test to your full capability because "it doesn't matter, I can do it at work" is like me going into my A level exams, putting half-arsed answers but at the end writing a little note to the person marking the exam saying, "I can do it much better but I just couldn't be bothered because it's an exam. Give me an 'A' please."

You have to pass one exam to get a job you really want, where you know that you can do it easily, but you can't be bothered because it's 'only' a test.

Fucking grow up.

[sickpup]

[Chinaboy]

After re-reading....... I think you must be a prick, and I cant be arsed to help or advise you ....... just my mind set

[P.addy]

It doesnt matter, because they wont want to keep you once you start chatting some form of bollocks over there too

[Chinaboy]

[Fairies attack]

Maybe I should have worded it better.

And I do honestly love the fact that most of you lot think I talk bollocks all the time. When infact it is all true.

[P.addy]

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I got some fleets in the kitchen and plate in the garage. Only thing i'm missing is the welding plant.

[Phoenix]

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[Deckx]

only got it now that 'Snow rider' is 'Warped' ... what a surprise

Keep us updated on the outcome

[kestrel]

[mistergixer]

Do they have the interwebs in Kuwait?

If not, i sincerely hope you get the job.


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