thanks for all the feed back, im making 23.76 an hour at the moment doing maintenance work 40 minutes from the house, my job at the moment the way the management are running it i don't think it can last much longer, that is why i am kind of looking, my brother n law is the one that was telling me about the work in the searcy area, he builds and installs some kind of valves, and his client was telling him how short handed they were up there for welders, i don't know the name of the company but he said they had to hire a contract welder and was paying him 60.00 an hour, that guy wants me to build that company some kind of a smoker so they can eat, so that might be the key to get the door open