My uncle had a machine shop in West Texas, where I was introduced to machining at a young age. I took 3 years of machine shop in high school where we only had manual equipment. I could single point thread on a lathe by the time I was 15. Then I went to TSTI in Waco where they had all manual equipment, and one bench top tiny NC mill that ran off punch tape. We had a semester of NC where we wrote NC code by hand. I have been working in machine shops most of my life. I've been a CNC programmer since 2005 with mostly 5-axis experience using Siemens NX software. I've worked as a contract CNC programmer since 2013 all over the United States, from Washington state to Massachusetts and many places in between. Every shop I've worked at is looking for machinists. We are a dieing breed, the youngsters today don't want to get their hands dirty and learn a trade.
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