How do you tell people what you do?

When people ask me what I do for a job I always say I am a CMM programmer. This always leads to confused looks. So I usually follow up with "I measure stuff." If they have further questions I hit em with "essentially I perform complex measurements using the science of manufacturing (GD&T) by programming a machine to measure parts." After that there are no more questions.

What is your go to description of what you do?

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Cris_C over 3 years ago

Which war machines in particular? I spent some years in the Air Force working with explosives. But I worked close to the flight line. Got to see the F-35 take off and land when it was first introduced. Its a surprisingly quiet bird when it wants to be. I also sat right next to the guy that got picked to "test" the new flight simulator of the 35(lucky SOB). He crashed the thing into an aircraft carrier on landing.

I'd love to see the F-35 taking off or landing. That has got to be pretty awesome. I'm surprised that there is anything quiet about that.

As far as what stuff I'm working on at the job, I'm not cleared to know. We just make and measure the stuff to the specs. I like to pretend it is all really cool stuff, but I'm sure I'd be pretty disappointed if I knew the truth about a lot of it.
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Cris_C over 3 years ago in reply to Cris_C

Thanks louisd. Man, looking at the map, you can really get close to that runway. I see from the street view that there is even a little place of the road to spectate.
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Cris_C over 3 years ago in reply to Cris_C

Thanks louisd. Man, looking at the map, you can really get close to that runway. I see from the street view that there is even a little place of the road to spectate.
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