I am in welding school and have 10 weeks left. I live in western Pennsylvania. My goal is to get on the pipeline, but I realize that is very difficult. After reading on here becoming a welder helper on the pipeline is the way to go, but that is starting to seem like an impossibility because I do not know anyone, and there are absolutely no jobs like that posted online. I just talked to this one company who is looking for a TIG welder and they sound like they want to hire me. They make fittings for the pipeline. So I would be in a shop all day tigging up these fittings. the pay is not good, but I thought that if I were to be good enough to make the fittings they are using on the pipeline that I would also be good enough to weld the line itself, plus I would get a few years of experience. I also thought that would be a good job to meet people in the field if I were to ask the sales reps at that company some questions. Is this a good way to get started if I wanted to eventually find myself on the pipeline, or am I thinking wrong? thanks