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Mostly MIG and Arc myself. Couldn't never get the hang of TIG- just wound up burning up my gloves. I welded from the time I was 18 till I was 24 when I joined the Army. After the Army (2001) while living in N. Ireland I did a little stint doing some MIG welding for a small manufacturer in County Fermanagh. Like riding a bicycle (you never forget) except they had these new fangled hoods that I never had worked with- you could see through the shield when you weren't welding, then when you began to arc it went dark. I didn't realize at first that it had sensors and was reaching up and over something to weld and inadvertantly covered the sensors up- face shield was no longer dark. Scratch head, try again a couple of times. Blistered my eyes pretty good- a thing I had done exactly once when younger and decided never to let it happen again (pain is a good teacher) but that new fangled hood threw me. You live you learn.

The weirdest way I ever burned my eyes was using a conventional hood. We had welding booths we worked in, and the interior was painted white. I was welding aluminum pipe, and the flash is about 10 times brighter than the one from steel. The reflection from the white walls in to my hood was enough to burn my eyes. Ouch!! After that, I wore dark safety glasses under my hood whenever I welded aluminum, rather than the usual clear safety glasses.