Not really over but I won't be working for a machine tool distributor anymore.
No more access to CNC machines to make all the cool **** I wanted to.
Oh well, on the lighter side my new job pays allot more and I get a company car to boot!!
Not braggin, just happy as hell and had to share.
Looks like no more spring clamps and velocity stack making for me.
I am kind of bummed, I really like programming these machines and making all the **** that usually cost hundreds to buy.

 

Well congrats on the new job.

Btw, whats your new job?

 

I took 2 years of machining at a vocational tech school while I was in HS....worked in a production machine shop for a few months and decided it wasnt for me. I liked doing the cool "one off" **** but its tough to make money that way. Now I do Tile and Stone.

 

just have someone you know from the inside do your dirty work
where you at now?

 

I thought this thread was going to be like one I read at another forum, where the guy lost two or three of his fingers. Glad that is not the case and the only problem is that you got a better job!

 

I'm going to be the manager for a cutting tools manufacturer in Wisconsin and the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.
Great company with excellent products. I'll be doing the management of all the accounts that sell our tooling, along with seminars, tech-support and travel to various end useres to help them with projects for die-mould, and production. Really the tools can be used for anything in metal cutting, real high end premium quality stuff.
I met with a few of their staff last Friday, great group of people, they have an impecable reputation in the cutting tool industry.
Forgot to mention, I'll be working out of the house too, I keep forgetting about that part!! Life is good these days, all the crap I've been through in the last 22 years of this trade is finally paying off. I start June 5th, so I'll have two weeks off to work on the truck and get her ready for the strip!!
Wooooohoooo!!

 

I hear you there, that's the reason I left the shop almost seven years ago and got into engineering. Unless your working rediculous hours it just doesn't pay! Plus you have to know soo much information, it hardly seems worth it.
I used to do prototyping and low volume production for Lockheed Martin.
The last parts I made before leaving the shop were F22 fighter plane air frame components. Cool stff.

 

Heres to your new job. May you be happy and profitible! *raises his glass of wine*

 

Thank you sir, your a gentleman and a scholar!!
thanks man!!

 

dang....i was just getting ready to ask for a small project to be done. good luck with the new job