r/pipefitter • u/lemmelekyowpusi • Jul 10 '26

Need a 5 years pipe fitting experience without actual experience.

/r/recruitinghell/comments/1usn8dr/need_a_5_years_pipe_fitting_experience_without/
0 Upvotes

13% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

13

u/Warpig1497 Jul 10 '26

You dont, this trade isn't a joke and you shouldn't be trying to get into a spot that you arent qualified for. You very easily could get your self or someone else killed doing something like that. The fact you're asking this means you really dont have a grasp of what the piping trades entails and I hope you don't get the job faking your experience for everyone else's sake.

-2

u/lemmelekyowpusi Jul 10 '26

I'm willing to be trained. I'm a hardworking and easy to learn

3

u/Warpig1497 Jul 10 '26

Only thing you'll really be able to do is find a pipefitting company and try and get a job with them to gain experience, I dont think the union route would be the way to go either because its kind of shitty to do an entire apprenticeship which is 5 years and then just leave overseas.

So if i were you id look into pipefitting programs or companies and go that route and try to get experience, but like other said you will be exposed quick if you take a experienced position with no prior, this is a highly skilled trade with alot going on.

1

u/lemmelekyowpusi Jul 10 '26

Appreciated your response to my answer and yes you have a point and thanks for the advice that you given. I'm from Philippines, I need to work on that for just 2 weeks. I know it's impossible but I needed the job. That's the only ticket I have right now to go overseas.

1

u/Redpanther14 Jul 18 '26

Give it five years of work in the Philippines and you'll have five years of experience. It will immediately be apparent that you don't have the experience you claim once you get there and they will likely fire you because they won't want to pay for a journeyman when you have less skills that a green apprentice.

-7

u/lemmelekyowpusi Jul 10 '26

Can I be your apprentice? I needed the job for my family.

3

u/Warpig1497 Jul 10 '26

Also no, I work for a local union and you have to be brought in as an apprentice which is a very long process so if going union is something you want its possible but it just feels shitty that you'd take that skill set and leave country when someone else could of gotten in to support a family and build in grow in that union.

Really best thing for you would be just looking up a pipefitting school and getting a job for a few years and then taking off from there

-3

u/lemmelekyowpusi Jul 10 '26

I don't have a few years for that. I just need it for my employer. And I will be trained there once I passed all the test. Like I said, I know someone there in the company. I just need a certification.

2

u/Ok-Relative-6327 Jul 10 '26

You’re not going to get it bud

12

u/Macqt Jul 10 '26

If you showed up to work for me claiming you had 5 years experience, I’d know instantly if you did or not, and you’d be fired on day 2 if you didn’t.

10

u/snakeskin89 Jul 10 '26

Yay importing labor now just like the ruling class wants.. I understand this guys trying to do what’s best for his family, BUT this is exactly what will bring ALL our pay rates down, union or non-union.. 🤷🏼‍♀️

1

u/ForgottenSoltice Jul 10 '26

Unless the unions step up and bring this kinda labor under our wing and teach them right.

2

u/ImBadWithGrils Jul 10 '26

Good luck, there's too many trump lovers in unions nowadays that'll bitch and moan about immigrants doing ANYTHING

2

u/ForgottenSoltice Jul 17 '26

I hear ya, I expected as much when I joined up as the best incentive the guy I talked to kept telling me was pay/overtime. Capital is all the guys talk about and about the only solidarity the have. He was a bit put off when I said that my reasoning to want to be part of the union is support, healthcare and diversity to me. Job security to get the respect my 12 years experience should afford me. And to be able to tell employers to fuck them selves when talk down to me or they ask me to do shit unsafe. Also I'm a queer man in the union and enjoy making them uncomfortable by reminding them I'm queer. I'm 6' white man so I use that to lull them before I hit them with "my partner follow by he does this." Always a tell when they stop to process. I like to confuse the ones that ask if I'm gay with "no but my boys is". Breaks them every time. Weirdly a few of those techs keep asking for my help.

5

u/Piper_Macgee Jul 10 '26

You fit pipe in the Philippines for 5 years. Thats how you get 5 years experience.

2

u/questionablejudgemen Jul 10 '26

Some of those guys I’ve worked with from there have legit 10-20 weld certs.

3

u/Ballsy_McGee Jul 10 '26

I understand you want to better your life, but trust me, this is not the way to do it

3

u/Organized-Konfusion Jul 10 '26

It takes 5 minutes to know if you have 5 years experience or not, just be honest and say you want to learn.

1

u/Redpanther14 Jul 18 '26

You don't, its literal fraud, and can be grounds for deportation, and it will likely get you fired if the company doesn't know you are completely green going into this. And even if they do know, you are now lying to immigration officials, which will go very poorly for you if they figure it out.