>>518543287
I am a machinist(set ups, some programming, mills, 2
Axis lathes, 5 axis turn mills) it’s a poorly paid vocation at least in this region. I am taking classes to get into the medical field.

Shops will not pay more than $25 an hour, benefits usually suck as well.

I have never met a wealthy machinist, plenty of wealthy plumbers and electricians though. The only machinists I have met who have any degree of financial stability have wives who have better careers.

>>518545564

I don’t even trust engineers to design proper parts, I have often had to ask them why their designs have specific features(features that make machining that part difficult) sometimes they realize the error in their ways, but some of them are daft. Like why put a .006 radius for one edge and a .008 radius on another? Just use the same radius.