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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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  • That's what I had going on. I would find an issue that would require about 30 min of downtime to fix. Instead, we would keep running nonconforming parts for a day and have 2 people rework everything for 2 days. Then he would get mad at quality because the parts were 2 days overdue and would override quality again and ship the remaining bad parts. When the customers complained they insisted that we increased inspections. That was unacceptable because it slowed down production. So we didn't do it and just told the customers we were. I quit when I was written up for insubordination for refusing to lie to the customer.

    That is one of the few places where I would draw the line. I also will not sign off on non conforming parts. I have been asked to do that before (not at this or my previous job) and I flat out refused. I take pride in my job and I value my integrity as an inspector too much to do that.
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  • That's what I had going on. I would find an issue that would require about 30 min of downtime to fix. Instead, we would keep running nonconforming parts for a day and have 2 people rework everything for 2 days. Then he would get mad at quality because the parts were 2 days overdue and would override quality again and ship the remaining bad parts. When the customers complained they insisted that we increased inspections. That was unacceptable because it slowed down production. So we didn't do it and just told the customers we were. I quit when I was written up for insubordination for refusing to lie to the customer.

    That is one of the few places where I would draw the line. I also will not sign off on non conforming parts. I have been asked to do that before (not at this or my previous job) and I flat out refused. I take pride in my job and I value my integrity as an inspector too much to do that.
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