We’ve all seen a bajillion of the “leaving the office life for welding” questions. Let’s hear how it’s turned out for those of you who have done it.

For those of you in here that left your corporate office world and come to the dark side, you now go home dirty, probably poorer, and definitely more sore. You’ve probably had more coworkers and bosses yell and swear at you than ever before, had an actual injury or two or at the very least a close call.

Let’s hear it, do you still love it? Is it everything you thought it would be? Any regrets? Anything you wish you’d known? Tell us the good and bad.