Interesting article about welding as a career, particularly for women

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Thought you might like to see this article about welding as a career, particularly for women:Seems there are always questions on here about welding and prospects for the future, pay, education, etc.http://www.nbcnews.com/#/business/ca...-welder-n26426Burt _____________________Miller Syncrowave 250Millermatic 211Miller 375 Plasma Cutter Hobart Handler 12010FtDrillBit.com
Reply:It is probably just me, but I am always mildly amused whenever I see a person (or a job title) stated as "WELDER".  Back in my day, it was hammered into us at school by the old fart instructors that a WELDER is a machine used to produce electrical power for arc welding. And that the person doing the job of welding is known as a WELDOR (using any welding process) and his job title is also WELDOR.The old instructors may have just been using the distinction between the two spellings to further their own amusement when they would criticize us newbies for pronouncing it wrong or spelling it wrong for the context it was being used in, but it was a distinction that meant you had paid attention to the fine details of a craft/vocation and recognized the subtleties of the trade jargon.To that effect, I would have been greatly surprised if I had found a journalist using the correct spelling of weldor in a story about jobs and people.On that same note, I think the spell check folks need to update the software so that it recognizes weldor as a correct spelling.  They seemed to have gotten it right with the words "instructor", "doctor", and "professor" (amongst others), but every time I spell "weldor" it flags it as misspelled.