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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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  • What I like about working with CMMs in general is the variety. It really is a multi-disciplined line of work. You folks all know that to do a good job of it requires knowing at least a little bit about a whole lot of things. CMM programming, fixture design, CAD, math, scripting, technical writing, manual measuring with all sorts of tools, blueprint/mind reading, etc. I’m the sort of person who gets bored doing too much of any one thing, so working with CMMs seems to suit me well. I’m also an introvert, thus it is nice to spend more time working with machines than with people.

    What I like about my current job is that I’m a full time programmer. I do all my programming offline and work with large/complex aerospace parts that each take weeks to program. It can be a bit tedious, but it is quite satisfying to execute a measuring routine for the first time and see all that work pay off at once. I take a lot of pride being known as the one who makes programs that [normally] work flawless the first time.

    Aside from that it is the little things I like. My own desk, a sweet computer with far more cores than PC-DMIS knows what to do with, a decent chair, a standing desk (it helps to stand most of the time), a paved walking/bike path nearby, I can use headphones, I can eat at my desk, and the company has a reasonable attendance policy (no fuss if I’m a minute late or need to go to an appointment).

    Good Topic! Kinda therapeutic to type that up.
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  • What I like about working with CMMs in general is the variety. It really is a multi-disciplined line of work. You folks all know that to do a good job of it requires knowing at least a little bit about a whole lot of things. CMM programming, fixture design, CAD, math, scripting, technical writing, manual measuring with all sorts of tools, blueprint/mind reading, etc. I’m the sort of person who gets bored doing too much of any one thing, so working with CMMs seems to suit me well. I’m also an introvert, thus it is nice to spend more time working with machines than with people.

    What I like about my current job is that I’m a full time programmer. I do all my programming offline and work with large/complex aerospace parts that each take weeks to program. It can be a bit tedious, but it is quite satisfying to execute a measuring routine for the first time and see all that work pay off at once. I take a lot of pride being known as the one who makes programs that [normally] work flawless the first time.

    Aside from that it is the little things I like. My own desk, a sweet computer with far more cores than PC-DMIS knows what to do with, a decent chair, a standing desk (it helps to stand most of the time), a paved walking/bike path nearby, I can use headphones, I can eat at my desk, and the company has a reasonable attendance policy (no fuss if I’m a minute late or need to go to an appointment).

    Good Topic! Kinda therapeutic to type that up.
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