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Crazy Job Market

What's the CMM job market like near you?

I live and work in the far northern outskirts of Chicago. There is a fair amount of industry around me, but there are typically only two or three CMM job openings at a time within my commuting area. Most of them are normally the same few jobs that nobody wants or they just don’t pay enough.

However, right now it seems like there are quite a few jobs available near me that I'd be happy to take if I didn't already have a good thing going. Also, where I work we have been down a CMM programmer for many months and recently lost two more who left for greener pastures. HR tells me that no one is even applying, let alone anyone with good qualifications! We are working to build talent from within, but it's going to take some time.

How about you?
Are you currently understaffed? Or should I say, more understaffed than usual?
Do you see a lot more job openings near you?
Am I the only one dumb enough to do this for a living? What am I missing here?
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  • Probably no one withing 100 miles of this company would know what CMM stands for these days.... Based on the situation I walked into 15 years ago, no one working at the company knew either.....


    It's funny how many people have never heard of a CMM. I find it really hard to describe one to someone who hasn't been in manufacturing. I have just decided to make it sound as cool as I can. "I program super precise robots to measure stuff". Hmm, even when I'm trying, I can only make it sound so cool. I gotta work some more on that.

    I had a similar experience. I no one at the company I worked at had seen or heard of a CMM until the day the Quality Manager asked if I wanted to take a week long class and become the programmer for a new measuring machine the company was buying. In those early days my only saving grace was that no one else knew anything about that machine, so it didn't take much for me to be the resident expert.

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  • Probably no one withing 100 miles of this company would know what CMM stands for these days.... Based on the situation I walked into 15 years ago, no one working at the company knew either.....


    It's funny how many people have never heard of a CMM. I find it really hard to describe one to someone who hasn't been in manufacturing. I have just decided to make it sound as cool as I can. "I program super precise robots to measure stuff". Hmm, even when I'm trying, I can only make it sound so cool. I gotta work some more on that.

    I had a similar experience. I no one at the company I worked at had seen or heard of a CMM until the day the Quality Manager asked if I wanted to take a week long class and become the programmer for a new measuring machine the company was buying. In those early days my only saving grace was that no one else knew anything about that machine, so it didn't take much for me to be the resident expert.

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