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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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  • I work in a medical machine shop making surgical instruments and implants that is family owned and occasionally help one of our sister plants (die stamping design/assembly and a large stamping facility)

    - I like working with the people on the shop floor, most of them are easy going and open to input.
    - I can pretty much come n go as I need as long as my work is caught up
    - I had created my own work schedule until our other programmer left, now I start between 5-5:30am and try to be gone by 3pm. We are seeing new orders coming in so this may change
    - I am the CMM IT guy also. Our IT guy doesn't like messing with the CMM computers because he thinks they are proprietary but we have replaced all of the PCs except for one (bought the CMM new in 2018)
    - I make good money and the bennies are fairly decent for being a family owned business

    The only that I don't like about the company is that the office politics are horrendous and the back-stabbing is notorious. I have learned in my 3 1/2 years that you say everything through an email and BCC everything you think that could be misconstrued to your private email.
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  • I work in a medical machine shop making surgical instruments and implants that is family owned and occasionally help one of our sister plants (die stamping design/assembly and a large stamping facility)

    - I like working with the people on the shop floor, most of them are easy going and open to input.
    - I can pretty much come n go as I need as long as my work is caught up
    - I had created my own work schedule until our other programmer left, now I start between 5-5:30am and try to be gone by 3pm. We are seeing new orders coming in so this may change
    - I am the CMM IT guy also. Our IT guy doesn't like messing with the CMM computers because he thinks they are proprietary but we have replaced all of the PCs except for one (bought the CMM new in 2018)
    - I make good money and the bennies are fairly decent for being a family owned business

    The only that I don't like about the company is that the office politics are horrendous and the back-stabbing is notorious. I have learned in my 3 1/2 years that you say everything through an email and BCC everything you think that could be misconstrued to your private email.
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