Assholes like to jack off about how if you just learned a trade like welding you'd be rich but honestly unless you're on an oil field or a bridge doing licensed structural welding it isn't that fancy. Getting certified? 6 months training and several thousand dollars. And that's on top of the trade school you're supposed to go to instead of college. Also oil field work will seriously make you die younger.
I'm in New York and I see ads looking for someone with 10 years experience in brass steel and aluminum for $10/hr and it's like really? I got suckered into an Ironworks job and found out the owner paid new welders $350 a WEEK. No wonder my coworkers were all lunatics, even by welder standards.
You get what you pay for, look up a place before you hire them to do work for you. Im not shaming poverty and people can have substance problems but I wouldn't trust a company that pays so low, they're abusing vulnerable people to keep wages down.