This week, Jessica Considine – a welder, fabricator, and artist based in the Detroit-area – joins The Fabricator Podcast. She's the creative force behind Sculpted Roots and a full-time fabricator for the Department of Defense with Navistar.

In short, Considine exemplifies what a metal fabrication career can look like for the next generation of skilled tradespeople.

Also joining the podcast as co-host is Darla Welton of Brown Dog Welding and the Still Building America Series on thefabricator.com. This is the first of four podcast episodes she'll sit in as co-host with Dan Davis.

Considine talks about her path from jewelry maker to metal fabricator in her still young fabrication career. She also discusses how her carpenter father taught her how to work with her hands, how making jewelry honed her attention detail, the importance of an organized workspace in a fab shop, leveraging social media to grow her professional network, and learning to work a press brake.

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