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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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  • There are a few places I'm going to submit my resume to tonight and I have already contacted my old boss at my last job. It $ucks cause I've only been at this job for 4 months but the director of operations is a production guy and does not care at all about quality and knows NOTHING about dimensioning (wantsa to check complex profiles on the comparator). They have, and will continue to run 400+ piece orders without a buyoff and that will not change. I am the 3rd person to hold this position in the last year and the previous 2 have quit. I know one of them is on here (not that often) and the other may be as well.


    I know the feeling. Where I was before, the operations manager referred to quality as a "no value added" department. We were constantly assigned tasks to "provide value to the company". I would spend half my day running presses or driving a forklift loading and unloading trucks. He literally implemented a policy where we would ship bad parts and, if the customer had an issue, they could just send them back. They lost a major customer a month after I left.Smiley
  • The reduction in warranty work does justify a quality dept.
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