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What do you like about your job?

A-machine-insp
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?
  • Uh...they let me do what I want and it's impossible to get fired? I have learned a lot while I was here though, I will give them that. We're just lacking in any kind of management and I'm being pushed into that role unwillingly.
  • - IT has given me full admin rights. I have been dubbed the IT guy of our Quality Department.
    - They are good with family things, appointments, short notice time off
    - I have 3 monitors
    - I can have a coffee maker and fridge in my cubicle
    - 10 days paid holidays, 4 weeks vacation
  • After 24 years with this company I have been in many departments, worked with many people and now I have an office with everything you could ask for, including solitude Slight smile . I listen to whatever I want, I am IT in here haha. We make Industrial Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Size Reduction equipment. 111 years in buisness. We are the top dog in our field. Global, one manufacturing facility, We are an ESOP. Its super clean and safe.
    A-machine-insp - We manufactured the Norden Bomb sites for the bombers in WWII.
  • Where do I begin...
    * It's in weather mecca of the world, San Diego!
    * Has multiple cafeterias
    * Has a multiple gyms, pools, and parks
    * parking is great
    * We make a great product (mostly in house)
    * good and affordable benefits
    * environmentally controlled and spotless
    * good bonus/raises, good 401k match, pension
    * you will lack nothing, everything that's needed its purchased
    * in-house built product sold directly to the end-user (best part right here! No need to reach out as everyone involved is in-house.)

    I work on an automated cell so it's never a dull moment. I get to play with it all. I came in as a CMM dude given the opportunity to learn it all. After four years I've developed skills in PLC programming, SQL, HMI, 6 axis Robots, and a few other pieces of equipment. My leadership has given me the resources and support all the way thru. I've hit the lotto of jobs, truly blessed!
  • 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.
  • in reply to Kp61dude!
    How many employees do you have under 1 roof to have multiple cafeterias ? Hope no disgruntled employee pees in the pool.......
  • in reply to Kp61dude!
    It's about 40 buildings and not all have cafeterias. Employee count, shoot I don't know a couple grand split into a few divisions. It's family owned and feels like a bigger "mom and pop" shop vs a corporation (nothing wrong working for the corporates). Pee in the pool...as long as humans go in it you bet your as.s!
  • 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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