Welding Journal

Sixteen years ago, I walked into a damp and dark warehouse where I was introduced to welding education. The Nixon-era warehouse was the now-defunct Center of Industry and Technology (CIT). I also met Elaine Waters, who had been teaching welding at the school since 1986, and she wasn’t too impressed with a naïve 29-year-old who had failed at two previous corporate jobs. For my part, after looking at CIT’s facilities, lack of business plan, and overall experience, it didn’t take long to deduce why the school only had..