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How Did You Get Into CMM Programming?

ALousyUser
Just as the title says - how'd you first make your stake as a CMM programmer?

For me it was when a recruiter on LinkedIn randomly reached out to me asking if I was interested in being a Metrologist for an international company while I was working as a Quality Inspector at a job shop in 2020, just before the pandemic. I knew nothing about Metrology/CMM programming until I blew the technical portion of the interview process and got hired anyway haha! Ended up being mentored by a professional for 2 years before moving onto a specialized CMM programming gig at another company in 2022.

I figured - as it seems like a lot of us got on-the-job training for CMM programming, you guys/gals must have some interesting stories to share about how you got to where you are now, as CMM programmers.
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  • I was working on the production floor. About a year after I started they had a second shift programmer position posted, so I applied. I operated the CMM a few times for some projects, but did not know how to program. It took them about 4 months to finally get me in there as their programmer put his 2 weeks in. So they threw me into the fire with him for 2 weeks and then I was by myself for about a month until they hired a QE that had programming experience. I worked with him for about a year until he moved onto a different role within the company. At that point, I was proficient in programming to handle it by myself. That was 11 years ago. I do not program all the time anymore as my role has evolved into mainly a QE role.
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  • I was working on the production floor. About a year after I started they had a second shift programmer position posted, so I applied. I operated the CMM a few times for some projects, but did not know how to program. It took them about 4 months to finally get me in there as their programmer put his 2 weeks in. So they threw me into the fire with him for 2 weeks and then I was by myself for about a month until they hired a QE that had programming experience. I worked with him for about a year until he moved onto a different role within the company. At that point, I was proficient in programming to handle it by myself. That was 11 years ago. I do not program all the time anymore as my role has evolved into mainly a QE role.
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