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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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  • Around here it's the same 4 companies that have had the same jobs posted for a couple years. Not looking too hard, I'm completely and utterly burned out and sick of the quality bullsh!t, I say with all sincerity I'm considering driving Uber for the summer and seeing if I get the spark back. If not... who knows. Opening a B&B is sounding better everyday, or maybe I'll be a budtender when retail stores open. Maybe I'll open a weed club. All I know is I just don't want to do this anymore.

    Oh, this place is massively understaffed. There hasn't been a QE or QM in over a year, and they seem to think it's something I want to do. Even if I weren't burned out there's no way - people don't get that I only program these things coz I enjoy programming, but quality is a cesspool that I unfortunately have to be associated with coz of the job.
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  • Around here it's the same 4 companies that have had the same jobs posted for a couple years. Not looking too hard, I'm completely and utterly burned out and sick of the quality bullsh!t, I say with all sincerity I'm considering driving Uber for the summer and seeing if I get the spark back. If not... who knows. Opening a B&B is sounding better everyday, or maybe I'll be a budtender when retail stores open. Maybe I'll open a weed club. All I know is I just don't want to do this anymore.

    Oh, this place is massively understaffed. There hasn't been a QE or QM in over a year, and they seem to think it's something I want to do. Even if I weren't burned out there's no way - people don't get that I only program these things coz I enjoy programming, but quality is a cesspool that I unfortunately have to be associated with coz of the job.
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