Today I believe there are no jobs just for men or just for women but in the common register some jobs are, until a few years ago for example there were very few male nurses and care work was considered exclusively female, few women they drove buses or taxis etc... Some jobs are considered more masculine or feminine because we have been used to considering them as such, in Italy there is still a bit of this mentality but fortunately less and less.
When I decided to learn to weld, intrigued by a manual profession that I had never done but which I would like to learn, various people told me that it was strange because it is not a female profession. Luckily I didn't listen to their opinions! For many, welding remains a male profession and in fact the majority of welders are men, I myself am currently the only woman in the saladutara course but in reality it is a profession that men and women do and there are excellent women welders! At the moment I'm learning to electrode weld, it's not easy but I enjoy it, the first cords I made looked like long rows of boogers but now I'm learning to be more precise, I've learned to file the pieces, use the grinding wheel and the cutter, I still have some difficulty filing by hand though! As for welding, I'm slowly getting better at welding, at the moment we're welding angular pieces and the objective of this first part of the lesson is to electrode weld a small stool, then we'll also learn to weld with wire which everyone says is easier than with electrode. And then at the end of the course we will do an internship in the workshop, during the course almost no one makes me feel judged because I am the only woman.
Of course there may be a few jokes but nothing serious. Little by little I will learn to solder well too and who knows this might become my job, why not? I leave you with some photos of my welding "outfits" (we have all the right protective equipment, shoes, overalls, laps and hand masks, unfortunately we don't have helmets) and of the laboratory where I practice!
Hoy creo que no hay trabajos solo para hombres o solo para mujeres pero en el registro común sí hay trabajos, hasta hace unos años por ejemplo había muy pocos enfermeros y el trabajo de cuidados se consideraba exclusivamente femenino, pocas mujeres conducían autobuses o taxis, etc... Algunos trabajos se consideran más masculinos o femeninos porque estamos acostumbrados a considerarlos como tales, en Italia todavía existe un poco de esta mentalidad pero afortunadamente cada vez menos. Cuando decidí aprender a soldar, intrigada por un oficio manual que nunca había hecho pero que me gustaría aprender, varias personas me dijeron que era extraño porque no es una profesión femenina. ¡Por suerte no escuché sus opiniones!
Para muchos, la soldadura sigue siendo una profesión masculina y de hecho la mayoría de los soldadores son hombres, yo misma soy actualmente la única mujer en el curso de ensaladautara pero en realidad es una profesión que hacen hombres y mujeres y ¡hay excelentes soldadoras! Actualmente estoy aprendiendo a soldar con electrodos, no es fácil pero lo disfruto, los primeros cordones que hice parecían largas hileras de mocos pero ahora estoy aprendiendo a ser más preciso, he aprendido a limar las piezas, uso la muela y el cortador, ¡aunque todavía tengo algunas dificultades para limar a mano! En cuanto a la soldadura, poco a poco estoy mejorando en la soldadura, de momento estamos soldando piezas angulares y el objetivo de esta primera parte de la lección es soldar con electrodo un taburete pequeño, luego aprenderemos también a soldar con alambre. que todo el mundo dice que es más fácil que con electrodo. Y luego al final del curso haremos unas prácticas en el taller, durante el curso casi nadie me hace sentir juzgada por ser la única mujer.
Por supuesto puede haber algunas bromas pero nada serio. Poco a poco aprenderé a soldar bien también y quién sabe puede que esto se convierta en mi trabajo, ¿por qué no? Les dejo algunas fotos de mis "trajes" de soldadura (tenemos todo el equipo de protección adecuado, zapatos, monos, cubrebocas y mascarillas, lamentablemente no tenemos cascos) y del laboratorio donde practico!
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What kind of welding work do you prefer to work in? Structural Steel/building, Automotive, ship building/repair, heavy machinery, other?
Actually I will be happy is I can adjust a a gate or create a stool or some piece of furniture, but I would like to learn how to precision weld on copper and bronze. At the moment we are beginners they only make us solder small pieces of iron.❤️
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Good for you! I have been around welders all my working life and yes there has only been a handful.
Solderers on the other hand is mostly women, at least here in Scotland. Both my wife and I can solder and that is work at the moment, and I can say that in the last decade it is mostly females that I have come across!
So cool in Italy the situation unfortunately it's different 😭
Me encantó conocer a una mujer que no se limite por nada, y que cualquier trabajo o proyecto no sientas limitación felicidades por eso. Saludos
Soldering is good both for a hobby, or simply for a household activity (fixing/making something for yourself, or for your loved ones/friends), and it is also good for a job/profession too.
Welding is very good for a job/profession.
Both of these things are paying well, if you do it good/properly.