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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?
  • I work for a pretty small company (~35 people) and they have been living in the stone age as far as CMM programming (and really quality/QMS) for the last 15 years.
    I am not reinventing the wheel or anything but it has been really fun to bring a company from garbage programs from the revolving door of garbage programmers to having proper setups that are modeled and organizing their program directory where it actually makes sense and just raising the bar in general in the entire quality lab.

    The leadership of this company sees the value in my work and lets me do pretty much whatever I want in the quality lab.
  • 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.
  • Good Topic! Kinda therapeutic to type that up.


    Not gonna lie, I have had six job offers in the last year (2 within the last month) with all but one being for more money and I turned them all down. Writing and rereading what I wrote in my first post reminded me why I turned down the first four and were major contributing factors in turning down the last two. I get a lot of freedom at my job, am highly regarded and someone the rest of the department looks to for answers. I love career and like my job so I am staying where I am at. It was nice to write the original post and remind myself why I have chosen to stay here.
  • Keeping it after another round of guys laid off today.
  • in reply to UKCMM
    Ouch! Sorry to hear about the layoffs, certainly not a comfortable place to be mentally. It's hard to predict what these bean counters next move will be... sometimes they make sense other times they don't. You just don't know who's going to the chopping block next!
  • in reply to UKCMM
    Bummer! Well, um, congrats on being a survivor, but layoffs always suck for everyone involved. I hope things turn around for you soon.
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