Anyone have any advice on getting into a new field? Here's my situation... I'm really struggling financially because I just don' t make enough money where I'm working. It's really trickling down into the rest of my life, generally lowering my self-esteem and making it hard to enjoy any of my free time. I went to a trade school for welding and earned several welding certifications. I tried to get into the welding field, but most places are looking for "on the job experience". Now it's been about 2 years since I went to school and I'm rusty. Obviously getting some practice in is a must. But beyond that, how do I make an employer interested when I haven't been in school for over 2 years, and I've never held a job in this field? Anyone have any advice here? I really feel like a new job that pays halfway decent would really get me out of my funk. Mathius

if you applied for a job, but were told that you couldn't say anything to anyone about it, because they hadn't yet fired the current person, would that turn you off enough to not want to work there? seems kinda sleezy to me. wouldn't the right thing to do be to fire the current person and then seek a replacement? how could you ever trust that employer? if they did it once, they'd do it again. you'd never know if they were already interviewing people behind YOUR back in preparation of replacing you!