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[Anonymous No.18726437]

is CNC machine operator a decent trade with good future pospects and pay?

[Anonymous No.18726443]

>>18726437
I would think so, yes

[Anonymous No.18726451]

>>18726437
metalwork in general will probably be real big in the coming future.

[Anonymous No.18726503]

>>18726437
I did it. It sucks honestly at the beginning. But if you like it you can definitely go far, they usually will pay for you to get educated and fill bigger roles. Once you learn enough the trick is to buy a few used bar feed machines and let them run in your garage while you're at work. Then you can be the guy hiring the operators. Doesn't take that long to scale up either. Just gotta hire people to run the machines every time you get a few more.

[Anonymous No.18726505]

I'm a technical drawer and cnc operator in wood working, carpentry, retail... Sometimes i work in luxury decor for hermes or lvmh...
If you know well how to draw plans, and if you know how to use a cnc you can make good money, yes.

[Anonymous No.18726568]

>>18726503
that sounds like a pretty good plan for sure.

>>18726505
is drawing plans a big part of it cnc operation in general or more once you get more advanced?

[Anonymous No.18726835]

>>18726437
CNC operator/machinest and future programmer with 25% share in a local machine shop here
Yes

[Anonymous No.18726861]

>>18726835
damn that sounds legit as fuck, did you know how to code at all before you got into operating the machines?

and is programing basically similar to coding websites type of stuff or is it more just like math geometry and trigonometry

[Anonymous No.18726924]

>>18726861
I started knowing absolutely nothing just pushing buttons, we were getting bent over by chinks paying ya shit to work with titanium
Currently we made connections with a dude who now gives us lock heed, Boeing and Raytheon work, but we mostly work for some Californian aerospace company with not so good pay but massive workload.
Coding CNC is a very different language than computer, it’s mostly done for you you have to use other programs to translate it from Gibs Cam (what we mostly use) or other similar programs
It’s the designing and corrections that’s difficult, then when you go and test the programs have to make sure everything is exactly what it’s supposed to be

[Anonymous No.18726995]

>>18726437
What's the cost of a decent cnc?
What kind of fields you can work in?

[Anonymous No.18727855]

>>18726437
bump

[Anonymous No.18728209]

>>18726437
>>18726437
>is CNC machine operator a decent trade with good future pospects and pay?
Where I live and work (A very large city somewhere in the midwest) literally everyone and their grandmother runs either a trucking company/warehouse, a dealership, a machine shop, or a construction company. Multiaxis CNC shops are cancer that are destroying the potential value of doing any sort of real business in manufacturing. Here is why:
Let's start off with the fact that they are EVERYWHERE. Like mushrooms after a rainstorm everywhere. I measure the viability of a business by looking at whether or not you can buy equipment for it on Craigslist: if you can, don't bother unless you have a real shoe-in.
There is NO potential for any sort of economically viable long production runs with any sort of potential optimiziation, inevitably your interesting and cool prototyping shop turns into a cookie-cutter tool-and-die works: that shit gets old real quick when you have to compete with chinks halfway across the world for a contract by someone who is literally your neighbor.
Working as an operator is literally cancer: they usually make you work like this for six months to a yea r when you start, working setups is only slightly better. The smell of the fucking coolant, nastiest shit I have ever smelled next to burning melted plastic at another factory. It is the epitome of wagie-ing; just putting in parts, tightening them down, pushing a button and waiting. You literally feel your life slip away form you. Even truckers have more interesting jobs, especially when working a cross-country crew cab, or working a hot-shot delivery.
The only time any sort of shit like this remotely approaches any sort of comfortable profitability is when you are a contractor for a larger company making parts to maintain larger equipment for a bigger process, but that shit usually takes personal connections to the owner or some other shit; you are then usually just an in house employee.

[Char No.18728350]

>>18726437
Yes CNC machines are only getting better. Pretty soon you will be getting paid big bucks to cnc cyborg parts on a sick 5 axis no joke.

You can't expect chinks to do precision work anon. There will always be a place for machine operators if not humans in the future.

[Anonymous No.18728444]

>>18726861

Get your self a cheap 3d printer that runs marlin like a monoprice and learn how the G code works to move the arms around and stuff also how the g code operates with things like end stops.

Then move on to more advanced stuff like designing a model in fusion 360 and convert it into g code.

3d printers are amazing similar to actual CNC machines it's just addative inatead of subtractive. They both run on Gcode.

But ya 3d printer and fusion 360 will let you know if this is for you or not before you actually invest into it. Good time though CNC machines are cheap AF on ebay. I been thinking about a used HASS myself.

[Anonymous No.18728577]

>>18726437
I don't know, this piece of paper i hold since the end of school says i have enough knowledge to use one of these lathe.

[Anonymous No.18728935]

No, you have no power to make good money in that position, any rube can be taught to do it to an acceptable degree.
I design, engineer and program and its great. I've got a bit of a name and people want me to design and produce their products. I spend a few extra hours at work every week designing, engineering and programing what they want, then I go to my boss and get him to quote it, I mark it up and I have a cheeky $10-20k in my pocket for a few hours work. I charge $45/h for my time as well. I'll make an nice extra $15k in a few weeks.