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What do you like about your job?

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Lets be honest here for a second, no one likes going to work. We have things we dread doing, can't wait to go home, can't wait for the end of the week, ect. That being said, what are some of the things you actually like about your job?

For me, I love working in aerospace. I am a huge aviation geek so working on parts for fighter jets (my favorite type of plane) is a big motivator for me. I have turned down four local job offers making more money because they were not aerospace. My boss sees what I have learned, how fast I have learned it, and me continuing to push myself so he has unofficially made me the head CMM programmer (all of us program and run parts). He also gives me the special projects, hot jobs, extremely complex parts, and large parts (usually needing an equate alignment). Aside from that, he lets me pick the parts I want to work on. The only CMM here (we have 5) that has scanning capabilities is mine. I am the only person here who has learned how to utilize it so that machine and computer are mine. I am the one who everyone in the company goes to for CMM inspection questions and I also handle in house CMM training, maintenance and upgrades. I am also the only one allowed to do the DMIS technical previews and have done every one of them since I started working here. Honestly, this company has done a lot for me at my request: the scanning head, new computers (at $5k each), changing how we program and more. Also they let me get on here during the day and let me listen to my headphones so that's a bonus.

The biggest thing though is my chair! SecretLabs Game Of Thrones chair with the dragons on it! Sunglasses

So what do you all like/love about your jobs?
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  • My job pays me well and did so all through a pandemic. I am very grateful for that.

    We are on some cool weapons programs, I love supporting our military while working with state of the art technology.

    The owner of my company has a story that I respect. To me, it really sounds like "America".

    -Large aircraft companies used to make their high precision gears for their engines in Connecticut. Approx. 30 years ago they sent the work overseas for the cheap labor & laid everyone off. This created a situation where...1) local banks had gear making equipment for sale...and...2) a lot of people with specialized skills now needed work.

    -Sensing opportunity he created a business. He bought the machines for pennies on the dollar at auction. He slowly started getting customers thanks to his small footprint/low overhead. He slowly assembled a team. As time went on, terrible part quality forced the big guys to bring the complex gears back to the US and my boss was there to help/dominate the market. Time and time again, the big guys have tried to send work BACK overseas but they always end up returning to us. At the end of the day, the complexity of the work provides us our job security.

    -He started out making just gears. Nowadays we make every component for, assemble/test in house, and sell finished gear boxes direct to the big guys. We're the only company in the world doing this and we make better parts than the OEM(s) we sell to.

    -We've grown from a single man shop in '82 to having ~200 employees. He runs the company with his two adult sons who are proud of what they do and who will carry on after Dad retires.
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  • My job pays me well and did so all through a pandemic. I am very grateful for that.

    We are on some cool weapons programs, I love supporting our military while working with state of the art technology.

    The owner of my company has a story that I respect. To me, it really sounds like "America".

    -Large aircraft companies used to make their high precision gears for their engines in Connecticut. Approx. 30 years ago they sent the work overseas for the cheap labor & laid everyone off. This created a situation where...1) local banks had gear making equipment for sale...and...2) a lot of people with specialized skills now needed work.

    -Sensing opportunity he created a business. He bought the machines for pennies on the dollar at auction. He slowly started getting customers thanks to his small footprint/low overhead. He slowly assembled a team. As time went on, terrible part quality forced the big guys to bring the complex gears back to the US and my boss was there to help/dominate the market. Time and time again, the big guys have tried to send work BACK overseas but they always end up returning to us. At the end of the day, the complexity of the work provides us our job security.

    -He started out making just gears. Nowadays we make every component for, assemble/test in house, and sell finished gear boxes direct to the big guys. We're the only company in the world doing this and we make better parts than the OEM(s) we sell to.

    -We've grown from a single man shop in '82 to having ~200 employees. He runs the company with his two adult sons who are proud of what they do and who will carry on after Dad retires.
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