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Depending on the method for soldering, it could be quite similar to TIG, but as for stick and MIG, not so much.

TIG has one hand using a "torch" that arcs off the material you're welding while the other hand manually dabs in a filler metal. Highly lucrative method due to the materials it can weld, but expensive and slow when compared to MIG and stick.

MIG uses a automated wire feed mechanism (think a spool of wire that has a motor hooked onto it) that runs out a MIG gun with a trigger on it. You point and shoot out the wire which is the easiest approach to welding a lot of metal in a short timeframe. However, MIG machines have more moving parts abd thus more potential to break, and are essentially limited to steel and Aluminum, and you'll be cussing the whole way through the aluminum.

Stick is kinda a happy medium IMO between TIG and MIG, where you have a filler rod like the TIG wire, but coated in a Flux that cooks off impurities on the metal you're welding. Kinda looks like a 4th of july sparkler, except you dont wanna look at the pretty colors without a hood. Some flavor of sticks are designed to cut right through paint coatings on metal, but 99% of the time best practice is to still grind off the mill scale/paint so it's a moot point. Regardless, stick can be done outside since you dont need shielding gas, and it can weld most any material you'll typically run across (aluminum too, but again, lots of cussing the fucking aluminum, because it's fucking aluminum). Stick makes a very hot weld, and it leaves behind a capping slag you have to chip off, so it's difficult to do right on thin material.

Also, fuck Aluminum, it's stupid and I hate welding it outside of a TIG rig.

Welding has many different characteristics and welding types compared to soldering. Things change based on materials, thicknesses, and type of welding. Soldering is kind of like gluing two pieces together. Welding is merging them to one.

I guess it's fine for niggers that work with 14 gauge.