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You can check this kind of stuff out by looking on your local Craigslist postings. Machinist wanted (with decent level of understanding multiple machines, read
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
You can check this kind of stuff out by looking on your local Craigslist postings.
Machinist wanted (with decent level of understanding multiple machines, reading blueprints etc.) - 5 years experience - $25/hour in the Denver/Boulder area. e.g. http://boulder.craigslist.org/trd/5902683986.html http://boulder.craigslist.org/trd/5902683986.html (and you have to supply some of your own tools) ... this is not a cheap area to live in BTW. $50-60K is barely middle class for this area.
We've been praising the guy who hires 10 plumbers and then automates his back office (he is scaling), while looking down on the plumbers who do the actual work. Then we wonder why it's tough to find plumbers...
- sgnelson 10y agoI sometimes see job placements come in for machinists which demand almost every machinist skill one can have. Manual machining on every available type of machine, CNC machining on every type of machine, CNC programming, CAD and CAM Design in all the main software, GD&T, Blueprinting, etc. And for a list of requirements that takes up a full page, and frankly sometimes even requires skills that you would earn with a bachelors in mechanical engineering. All for $10/hour. And they wonder why no one has taken them up on their offer. And this is also in a major Southern city, with an ever increasing cost of living.