Passed my CWI exam! Pretty stoked.

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I read this forum everyday, comment when I think I have something to add if it hasn't already been stated, and have learned a lot from all of you.  With that in mind I thought it fitting that I share a personal milestone with you all.  Found out today that I passed my CWI exam! Took the test about 3 weeks ago along with the seminar.  I felt confidant before attending the seminar on the fundamentals portion, the practical I felt ok about, but the code was pretty daunting.  The seminar reinforced my confidence on fundamentals, I felt real good about the practical, and the code book was much easier to digest after we were shown how to tab and navigate it.  I don't know my actual score yet (I just received an email today from AWS that I passed), but I should get them in the mail soon.  No one walks away from that test saying "I nailed it!", after that test you feel thoroughly examined.  Actually testing time was 6 hours, but was there a total of 9 including the breaks, etc.   I highly recommend the seminar.  If you take it in another city, leave the wife and kids at home!   There were 8-12 hour day in class, and then a MINUMUM of 4 hours of studying on your own.  It's a full immersion and you have to eat, drink, sleep, deficate this stuff.Again, just thought I would share and say thanks for keeping welding interesting.  This field is so broad that I will be learning the rest of my life...what a challenge!Jay DavisAWS-CWIC-60 Specialty Welding ContractorLoving husband, and father of two boys (
Reply:Jay,  Congratulations!!! What code did you test to? jrw159
Reply:Congratulations Jay!  Good to hear that in the 'Real World' where Safety is a key issue non-competent welders can and will be left behind!I'm certain that forum members here are quite proud of you!Way-To-Go!!Rick V 1 Airco Heliwelder 3A/DDR3 CTC 70/90 amp Stick/Tig Inverters in Parallel1 Lincoln MIG PAK 151 Oxy-Acet
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Reply:Thanks guys!  Pretty excited at the opportunities this will open up.  JRW, I tested to D1.1.  It was the code that I had the most familiarity with professionally to begin with.Jay DavisAWS-CWIC-60 Specialty Welding ContractorLoving husband, and father of two boys (
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Reply:Originally Posted by jbyrdThanks guys!  Pretty excited at the opportunities this will open up.  JRW, I tested to D1.1.  It was the code that I had the most familiarity with professionally to begin with.
Reply:congrats!!!!!
Reply:Congrats man!!Ya gotta spend money to make money!
Reply:Have a virtual beer on me!Congrats!Yakdung
Reply:Grats!Buy American, or don't whine when you end up on the bread line.
Reply:Congratulations!... so where do we send our unbent test coupons and beer with a self-addressed stamped envelope for certification papers to be mailed back?
Reply:Way to go jbyrd. Excellent accomplishment.I know I look forward to reading about your new experiences and successes. When people get into the industry with the passion and excitement required and achieve the steps they've laid out toward their goals it encourages all including us armchair, backyard, garage monkey welders to do better, learn more,and for sure do it safe.Good luck going forward.
Reply:Welcome to the brotherhood. Congrats!!!!!! I went through my about 5 yrs ago.....API 1104.A young green pipe welder asked an old salt one day...How can I make the weld on the bottom of the pipe look like the top.......The old salt replied....Screw up the top......
Reply:Congrats!   do you mind if i ask where abouts you took the test and seminar?Vantage 500's LN-25's, VI-400's, cobramatics, Miller migs, synch 350 LX, Powcon inverters, XMT's, 250 Ton Acurrpress 12' brake, 1/4" 10' Atlantic shear,Koikie plasma table W/ esab plasmas. marvel & hyd-mech saws, pirrana & metal muncher punches.
Reply:That's awesome Jay! City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:Good job. I passed mine last year. Rich Depue was my AWS instructor and he did an excellent job. I know what you mean about tabbing the codebook. Take out all the metric BS and it's cut in half. I took mine for my existing job so I didn't have all the excitement you have about starting a new career. I must admit I'm a little jealous. Any ideas about where you'll try to work?
Reply:Thanks again everyone.  I took the seminar with David Diaz in Sacramento, and he was also great.  Kept it humorous and as exciting as possible.  I got my scores back.  I got a 94 percent overall, 91 on fundamentals, 96 on the practical, and a 96 on the code.  I did not go into the seminar cold so that helped alot.  I also got my welding contractors lic over the summer.  I don't ever want to move away from welding completely but I hope to expand the business opportunities into inspection, qualifications, and procedures while stil contracting.  Trying not to have all my eggs in one basket.On another exciting note I start as a parttime welding instructor at the local junior college next semester.Jay DavisAWS-CWIC-60 Specialty Welding ContractorLoving husband, and father of two boys (
Reply:Most guys fail the first time,i failed twice on api 1104,,there are 3 variations of each test,,i was in a semenar with over 100 guys for 10 days,most would beleive AWS is a money racket,part b is normally the hardest but when i took codebook the 2nd go round it all came out of appendix a and b,,in service welding and we spent little time in seminar navigating the back of the codebook
Reply:Why would you waste time with D1.1,,are you a bridge inspector,,API 1104 is far broader and supercedes the prior,,congrats anyway though!!
Reply:Originally Posted by jbyrdThanks again everyone.  I took the seminar with David Diaz in Sacramento, and he was also great.  Kept it humorous and as exciting as possible.  I got my scores back.  I got a 94 percent overall, 91 on fundamentals, 96 on the practical, and a 96 on the code.  I did not go into the seminar cold so that helped alot.  I also got my welding contractors lic over the summer.  I don't ever want to move away from welding completely but I hope to expand the business opportunities into inspection, qualifications, and procedures while stil contracting.  Trying not to have all my eggs in one basket.On another exciting note I start as a parttime welding instructor at the local junior college next semester.
Reply:Congrats,  got my CWI 22 years ago, Senior CWI 6 years ago and Section IX, B31.3, B31.1 endorsement last year.  Knowledge is everything.