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I've been working at a tire plant 33 miles away for around 8-1/2 years now, Continental Tire's Mt Vernon, IL plant, ~60 acres under roof. A help wanted ad came up in the local paper, a local plant, less than 7 miles from home, was looking for maintenance workers that could run mills, lathes, weld, and program PLC's. I had an abundance of about every required and desired skill, so I applied. I started last Monday, the new job makes electrical cables, drawing copper or aluminum wire and making cables, 2 Awg to 1500MCM. The position just seems to be a good fit, they are in need of someone with my skill set and the tire factory outsourced the work that I could have done for them. I feel uneasy about changing jobs at this time, going from mid seniority to bottom man, but in the new position my skill set most closely matches the top mans skills, they hired me to help because they had no one else that could upgrade obsolete equipment and change the program as required. So I save 52 miles a day in driving and have a job that should fit my interests and skills better. I'm enjoying learning the new processes anyway, drawing and annealing the wire at least has some metalworking! RogerN |
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On 2011-03-06, RogerN wrote:
I've been working at a tire plant 33 miles away for around 8-1/2 years now, Continental Tire's Mt Vernon, IL plant, ~60 acres under roof. A help wanted ad came up in the local paper, a local plant, less than 7 miles from home, was looking for maintenance workers that could run mills, lathes, weld, and program PLC's. I had an abundance of about every required and desired skill, so I applied. I started last Monday, the new job makes electrical cables, drawing copper or aluminum wire and making cables, 2 Awg to 1500MCM. The position just seems to be a good fit, they are in need of someone with my skill set and the tire factory outsourced the work that I could have done for them. I feel uneasy about changing jobs at this time, going from mid seniority to bottom man, but in the new position my skill set most closely matches the top mans skills, they hired me to help because they had no one else that could upgrade obsolete equipment and change the program as required. So I save 52 miles a day in driving and have a job that should fit my interests and skills better. I'm enjoying learning the new processes anyway, drawing and annealing the wire at least has some metalworking! RogerN You will LOVE working close to home! i |
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RogerN wrote: I've been working at a tire plant 33 miles away for around 8-1/2 years now, Continental Tire's Mt Vernon, IL plant, ~60 acres under roof. A help wanted ad came up in the local paper, a local plant, less than 7 miles from home, was looking for maintenance workers that could run mills, lathes, weld, and program PLC's. I had an abundance of about every required and desired skill, so I applied. I started last Monday, the new job makes electrical cables, drawing copper or aluminum wire and making cables, 2 Awg to 1500MCM. The position just seems to be a good fit, they are in need of someone with my skill set and the tire factory outsourced the work that I could have done for them. I feel uneasy about changing jobs at this time, going from mid seniority to bottom man, but in the new position my skill set most closely matches the top mans skills, they hired me to help because they had no one else that could upgrade obsolete equipment and change the program as required. So I save 52 miles a day in driving and have a job that should fit my interests and skills better. I'm enjoying learning the new processes anyway, drawing and annealing the wire at least has some metalworking! RogerN The new job sounds good. Don't believe all the doom and gloom reports on the economy pushed by the pathetic media. The economy is improving slowly and the issues with it are far from uniform. There are areas that are indeed in bad shape, but there are plenty of areas that are relatively booming and many more that are only minimally impacted. I know a few folks who changed jobs in the past year or so and all are quite happy with their new jobs. |
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"Ignoramus1280" wrote in message
... On 2011-03-06, RogerN wrote: I've been working at a tire plant 33 miles away for around 8-1/2 years now, Continental Tire's Mt Vernon, IL plant, ~60 acres under roof. A help wanted ad came up in the local paper, a local plant, less than 7 miles from home, was looking for maintenance workers that could run mills, lathes, weld, and program PLC's. I had an abundance of about every required and desired skill, so I applied. I started last Monday, the new job makes electrical cables, drawing copper or aluminum wire and making cables, 2 Awg to 1500MCM. The position just seems to be a good fit, they are in need of someone with my skill set and the tire factory outsourced the work that I could have done for them. I feel uneasy about changing jobs at this time, going from mid seniority to bottom man, but in the new position my skill set most closely matches the top mans skills, they hired me to help because they had no one else that could upgrade obsolete equipment and change the program as required. So I save 52 miles a day in driving and have a job that should fit my interests and skills better. I'm enjoying learning the new processes anyway, drawing and annealing the wire at least has some metalworking! RogerN You will LOVE working close to home! i I know what you mean, I'm going to have to consider the shelf life of gasoline :-) In the position I am taking, they only have one person that configures drives and programs PLC's and operator panels, I will be the 2nd with this capability. This most likely means I will be called out when they have a problem if the senior guy doesn't want to be on-call, so close to home is nice! RogerN |
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