ummmm not out of weld school yet and you landed a job at a repair facility? Be a little more patient and you might be suppressed at what "might" land in your lap. If you want critical ...wait till a $150k compressor gets pulled and they said you can have it ready for inspection and NDT by tomorrow because they promised the aircraft back by wed next week and the manufacturer will not have a replacement ready till next month.....no second chances without a walk on carpet. Maybe that will be less boring. Or maybe you will just be welding up a leaking coffee maker that day.......
The point I am trying to make to you Joe is if you stop and pay attention there is something going on there everyday that gives you an opportunity to learn something you do not know yet.......If its slow and your piddling around building stands or shop tools then try to learn better ways to fabricate them...or go hang out with some machinists or A&P guys whatever strikes your interest where you have opportunity. Because I absolutely GUARANTEE you, you will pick up some skill, trick, or knowledge that will help you later. Can you fabricate, do layouts, use shears, brakes, saws, forming dies and presses, saddle horns and hand form tools, can you design a fabrication from simply a stated need or purpose and have it work first go round as well as join a couple of pieces of metal together??? Chances are you have veteran skilled tradespeople of many disciplines around you everyday.....steal whatever knowledge you can from them and soak it up.
When you have absorbed all you can around you and the work stays mediocre ....well then you try to move up the ladder with a better job/opportunity. Your work experience is like building a brick house around you in the middle of a field getting one brick a day.....you get one wall done and you can hide behind it when its blowing that direction and so on and so on....one brick at a time....all of the sudden you can't hear the wind anymore and you realize you are using each one of those slow hard earned bricks all at once...and you can charge a fine price to all those outside with no bricks to use your house. Your in a unique opportunity to pick up some skill sets that you will not find anywhere else as far as welding goes....do not waste it...or at the very least use it to move into something a little tougher in aerospace because it can be difficult to break into aircraft work and right now its hard to find.
Just think you could be running a MIG welder all day on pallet truck parts in an assembly line, or using all those welding school skills to heave a wildcat grinder on some farm tank for days on end.......yea that's where its at aerospace sux!!! (i am sorry I could not help that last bit) Some of the shops really are DEAD END junk jobs, I would say as a rule they are the ones not getting very much work...
Please do not take the post the wrong way, I mean it to help you not be hurtfull.
Sincerely
Tommy