Posted on 02/26/2017 6:22:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“I’m seriously thinking about learning CNC machining.”
That thought has hit me also. If the HPA goes through, there is going to be good money building firearm suppressors, at least until the market saturates.
At this point, I am just a hack machinist running 70+ year old machines.
“Are there really that many people who cannot pass a drug test? “
Back when the Barnett Shale was really going strong, a guy asked me if I wanted to drive a truck. He said that out of 25 or so people interviewed, he was lucky to find one who passed the drug, driving record, and would show up.
With the Navy that President Trump is going to build, many thousands of welders will be needed.
The HR mafia has the mentality that there is no four year degree involved in welding, therefore welders are stupid and worthless. WHAT! Try that reasoning with someone qualified for various grades of stainless, Hastelloy, Inconel, Incalloy, Alloy 20, and even titanium. That’s the stuff found in a refinery.
I World Strohm and Brown and Sharpes back in the day. Used some ancient Milwaukee lathes to make tooling.
Speeds and feeds...
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This whole Medical Marijuana thing will have to be addressed by PDJT and Sessions IMHO to get our GDP numbers up. It is not just trucking, a like industry gnome of mine told me of troubles getting support personnel and borrowing one from 1/2 way across the country because a large number had flunked the pee test. At some point (sadly), I expect a lawsuit to challenge the pee test and negate it and hopefully we have a few new "Supremes" because if it gets fast tracked up by the 9th Circus, safety of our daily live would be in question IMHO.
For those of us with a bit of snow on the roof, and sometimes being told we are too old don't even apply, the fact that we would show up, be reliable, and be able to pass the pee test is everything IMHO. And if the Trump Economy kicks in like I think it will, HR departments might have to rethink the get-um in young and cheap and burn them out mentality, especially when that pool is inoculated with full time or occasional stoners...
Too many people go to college, waste their time, money and energy getting educated beyond their intelligence level. Too bad many of them cannot humble themselves to skilled labor.
I’ve been in IT about 15 or so and at times I would do a lot of what the on-site machinist does. Every so often I pick up a little from him.
If I had a few G’s free, I’d take the tech college crash course on CNC or welding.
There was a speaker at company function who was addressing the pending layoffs/retirement wave.
He was a carpenter up until his early 50s then the family business went under IIRC. The guy went to law school and passed the bar.
“Speeds and feeds...”
There is an app for that...
Oil companies require pre-employment screening and random drug testing.
Did it in the early '70s and loved it. Then joined the AF and as technology evolved, got into IT...the nice thing about CNC is that if you have any mechanical aptitude at all, you can be trained form next to zero to being productive in pretty short order - if you work the machines. Programming isn't that tough either - only limited speed/feed/direction combos so if the tables are accurate, a fine finished product is a sure thing. Of course, we had a programmer that bore the moniker of "Crash Craddock" as he often had trouble visualizing things and was wont to have a tool block return to home by going through a chuck or piece - was always interesting trying out one of his programs for the first time.
Programming might get boring but would be an easy way to earn a living and some of us just enjoy turning out physical products to fine specs.
My cousin went into manufacturing. His friends thought it was beneath them, but he loves it. He is 25 and he owns a house and he went to a votech school instead of a regular high school...
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