Thinking on your feet and on the run....thats your game bud...the welding is the easy part!!!  Jeez i remember my very first run for this guy running one of his trucks....

Steam tube coming of a boiler ....repair job they had already cut out the bad part and placed there fitting and had the joint pretty much ready (trying to save a buck of thier low *(&^ bid)) thing is it was about 2.5 inches off the wall...ok screw it no worries.   Got all my lead strolled out (driving time+ set up about $120 into it before I even cranked up the machine).  Ummm wheres my hood???? not in here not on the truck   oh crap I am gonna get fired first day on the job!!!!  Found a 2X4 lens in the glovebox and I used the rearview mirror on the wall......rolled back in to the shop with my boss standing outside with my hood up on a piece of pipe in front of the shop with a real (**&*) look on his face.   He just said they planned on shooting that today...my reply was "good cause the jobs done!  it will shoot fine"     I never told him nothing!!!!   I got a lot of interesting jobs from him after that.    I miss that kinda work.....it created it a lot of war stories.     At the same time watching this guy who hired me keep it all going....its a rough game man...my hats off to you for being able to put up with it all number one and number two  being so successfull at it!