Lincoln welder

My very talented friend was going broke during the housing bubble burst. He is a cabinet maker. North Dakota was booming with oil. He took some college courses and certified to be a pipe welder. He bought a new Miller welder and loaded up his flatbed 2500 Chevy and headed East.
A little bit later he showed up back home with his tail between his legs. They shamed him because his flatbed was not self built, his truck was not a 3500 and his welder was not Lincoln.
This only fueled his testosterone. He bought a Lincoln welder, built a badass flatbed and we shaved off his 2500 emblems and he headed east again and made a killing.
Today is quite the opposite and his mill work is making him a killing and the oil boom is not in North Dakota any more,