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copperaccents dot com wrote back on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:36:44 -0800 in
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"Ernie Leimkuhler" wrote in message
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Seattle's problem is Boeing.
They have laid off so many machinists over the last few years that
there just aren't any machining jobs in the whle Northwest.
With no job prospects, there is little insentive for kids to go into
the field.
It is the same reason they shut down the Avionics program and the
Automation Controls program over the last 5 years.

The guys coming out of Boeing have many years of experience and kids
fresh out of school can't compete.

That is not entirely true. I see machinists jobs listed in the paper and the
internet job sites all the time here. They are looking for experienced CNC
people however, and I don't qualify. Its the age old saying that it is hard
to get experience if nobody will hire you to give you the experience.

Yep.
And three axis CNC experience isn't something you can "run up" in your
garage.
Well, maybe if you have a source for a three axis CNC machine "cheap".
:-)
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."