Re: To all you shop owners out there...

milgil@xxxxxxx wrote:


Why would anyone want to get into this trade?

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I can tell you why I still do it. I still get excited setting up machines. Take a a chunk of metal, a blue print, a cnc lathe or cnc mill, a few hours and you have a 1st article. I still get a buzz from that. Learning to do it faster, better, more efficient is the challenge. I am not limited by any one software package. I can write programs with graph paper, protractor, scale, and calculator or any half dozen of the fillintheblank software. Whatever they have or don't have in house. I do what no one else wants to do. Set up the machine to first article and optimize the process. No operators? no problem, I'll train them. Got a sharp operator and you want make a setup man out of him? I'll train him too. Taking people from knowing nothing to being able to increase their market value by learning this trade gives me tremendous satisfaction as well. I teach at one of the local colleges at night. I teach manual programming 3 nights a week and my classes are packed. One thing I emphasize is to learn something new every day. There are 2 types in this trade; those with 10 years experience or those with 1 year experience 10 times. The difference is how you perform. This is a performance art. A true meritocracy. The better you perform the more you get paid. That is all most employers want anyway. Someone with half a brain, that half gives a shit, with half a work ethic, that is halfway trainable. If you show up with the whole package an employer is foolish to let you go or not pay you as much as they can afford.


To be a machine operator/specialist at 10/hr?

If you want 1 year experience 10 times, sure. Why limit yourself? The more you learn the more you are worth.
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