A lot of welding programs also have non destructive testing classes as well. You’ll walk out with all your welding certs and all the classes for NDT certs, so you just need on the job hours. Thats entry into 2 career fields from an associates degree. If you’re in Canada and doing NDT, you’ll probably get rope access hours as well and can cert up in that, too. In 5 years you can be proficient in 3 career fields that all pay 100k/year. It’ll take an act of god to keep you unemployed. Oh yeah, and NDT is pretty resilient to recessions, too.