In this week’s episode, Beau Wigington chats with Miguel Millan, aka Datboimiggz, a tank welder, about essential advice for stepping onto welding jobsites, key insights into tank welding, common pitfalls to avoid to keep your job, and how networking can lead to new opportunities. 

Key Takeaways:

• Getting Started in Welding: Miguel's journey from roofing with his father to discovering welding and transitioning into tank welding.

• Jobsite Essentials: The importance of awareness, trust, active listening, and managing complacency to stay safe and valuable on a jobsite.

• PPE Requirements: Critical PPE items you must have and why safety compliance is essential for your long-term health and employment.

• Jobsite Conduct: How improper cell phone use, failing to follow site rules, and lack of awareness can quickly end your career.

• Finding Welding Jobs: Practical tips for finding new jobs, networking effectively, and presenting yourself professionally to employers.

• Tank Welding Insights: Unique challenges, required skillsets, typical schedules, and practical welding test expectations for tank welders.

• Increasing Your Jobsite Value: Miguel’s tips on how to stand out positively, help your crew, and adapt to your foreman’s preferences to become invaluable on the job.

• Entrepreneurship in PPE: Miguel shares his journey of launching his PPE brand, handling challenges with logistics, and his personal inspiration behind the designs and color schemes.

Miguel Millan’s Advice for Welders:

• Always be ready to adapt; flexibility is crucial.

• Be proactive and helpful to keep the job moving forward.

• Make safety and proper PPE use a top priority for long-term career sustainability.

Miguel Millan's Contact Information:

• Instagram: @datboimiggz https://www.instagram.com/datboimiggz

• TikTok: @datboimiggz https://www.tiktok.com/@datboimiggz

• Website for PPE Gear: https://datboimiggz.com/

Related Courses From The American Welding Program

Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding - https://foxly.link/xelOeb

Basic Wire Process Welding - https://foxly.link/XXJUk1

Connect with Beau Wigington:

• Instagram: @beaudiditwelding https://www.instagram.com/beaudiditwelding/

• Email: [email protected] 

• WELD App: @beaudidit

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