weld. different kinds of welding, what you can expect to make? do you have a pretty secure job path ahead of you? yeah. look. it s hard to be glib and just tell you. i mean, i can tell you what the statistics say but the truth is, you know, there is a geographical component, you know, a welder in newport news is going to do very different than a weldner san diego and a welder up in north dakota right now basically write his or her own ticket. it depends on where you are willing to go but my foundation has trained kids to weld who have gone through maybe an 18 month certification program. i heard from one of them not long ago in north dakota. his family is in kansas. so he does the commuting thing. and it s not ideal and it s not forever but they just paid off their house. they are having a second kid. and he is making 140 grand a year. working when he wants. yeah. that kid should be on a poster. that guy, you know, in fact, there was an article in the
weld. different kinds of welding, what you can expect to make? do you have a pretty secure job path ahead of you? yeah. look. it s hard to be glib and just tell you. i mean, i can tell you what the statistics say but the truth is, you know, there is a geographical component, you know, a welder in newport news is going to do very different than a weldner san diego and a welder up in north dakota right now basically write his or her own ticket. it depends on where you are willing to go but my foundation has trained kids to weld who have gone through maybe an 18 month certification program. i heard from one of them not long ago in north dakota. his family is in kansas. so he does the commuting thing. and it s not ideal and it s not forever but they just paid off their house. they are having a second kid. and he is making 140 grand a year. working when he wants. yeah. that kid should be on a poster. that guy, you know, in fact, there was an article in the
much i appreciate that, and i came to washington not because i wanted to be secretary of education, that was not my lifelong ambition. i simply wanted to be part of president obama s team, and i can t tell you how proud i ve been to have the chance to serve with him, and to learn from him, his values, his commitment to helping those who need the most help. every hard decision, reverend, every hard decision having to do with education he simply said what s the right thing to do for children, and he would handle the politics. what s next for arne duncan? it s bittersweet, really sad to leave this work and to leave washington but as you may know my family moved back to chicago this summer and it s been very hard on all of us, my wife, my kids and i, trying to do this commuting thing, and so i m going home to chicago at the end of the year. i m going to desperately miss our work here and our team here but it s the right thing for my family and i ll figure out what to do next as we go i