Welding would be a great job skill for training prison inmates in the last couple years of their sentences.
Might provide many with a chance at decent employment upon their release.
The career and technology school where I work is doing training for recently released convicts under a grant for transition/re-entry training. I get to interact with the instructor quite often as I have employers inquire about how to get the skilled bodies they need to manufacture their product. The instructor tells me most of them work out really well, some become excellent in just the short training course. I’ve been shown some excellent test weld samples by these students. He starts the training with the student doing a MIG weld in the 3G uphill weld position.
The welding schools around me stay jammed.
I would like to go. Back in high school, auto mechanics touched on it. I was so near sighted with thick glasses though. A welding helmet wasn’t that practical.
Life after lasik changed a lot for the better.