Most People Have No Clue or Simply Don’t Understand How Important This Is

Trevor gives insight to what it took for him to achieve a higher status in his shop, and become an all around asset to the team.

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[varmintdavev]

Add to that; When you aren't getting what you want, don't be afraid to jump. That employer does not have a lock on you.

[hyrdocomputing]

You also need to keep moving companies.

[sethsamuel]

Holding managers accountable too.
You made me a promise and I held up my end of the deal. Just because they are a manager doesn’t mean they get to walk all over you. Continue to grow and take on more new tasks, but also let them know that if they don’t hold up their end of the deal, you walk. Period.

[garygriffin]

Very good advice about keeping at it. My advice as an old man if you work at a company that does not appreciates you with a fair pay don't hesitate look elsewhere while your young. There is another company looking for you and the door will open if you knock. I work for a company with good people but I watched the company go from friendly to cold new upper management become paid well and the hands on workers become unimportant. Too late for this old man to go elsewhere.

[JSomerled]

You’re valuable when a company can count on all your skills.. Number one skill - always show up on time ready for anything.

[barrysetzer]

As a fellow Titan, I gotta say I laughed a bit when you said “one day i’ll be more valuable.” And knowing you now, i gotta say that you achieved that goal, Little Chip. Smart, skilled, funny, thoughtful, humble, and funny looking. Glad you put in the effort and ended up with our beast mode team of machining MONSTERS

[samuel]

In real machine shops you're working on broken equipment that your bosses do not allow you to fix. While many of your machines are at least partially manual. Not to mention all day engineer change requests for the 90% of the time that your prince information are not correct. Then as you're correcting the prints in engineering you get hassled by the owner because you get blamed for the time it takes to correct the information.
Anyone else getting tired of being given advice from people who have multi-million dollar equipment and setup machines that take all the thought and effort out of Machining?
Yeah it's great, but most people are using Mills and lathes from the '50s and '60s.
Would love some advice for saving time and fixturing for old manual machines.
It's sort of a slap in the face to have million dollar machines and the best CNC software. It's like setting everything on easy mode when you have millions to blow on equipment and software!
Btw I'm calling BS young people aren't getting into Machining because what's shown here is not a normal place with massively unnormal budget.

[deweyblanton]

Hey, hey, hey, I’m 52 and out work any of these 20 year old knot heads. 😂 I was working at a machine shop here 25 years ago and moving up quick through this shop from cutting stock, to running manual laths, then CNC, and finally they put me in a new shop with big equipment and I was by myself by the way. These parts were rough cast and weighed 2-300 pounds a piece. I’d cut one end and the flip the part around to cut the other end. Well my inexperienced dumb self being already stressed running these parts by myself and getting in a hurry didn’t blow the jaws out good a pesky chip wedged in the corner of the jaw kicked the part out just enough to be out of tolerance and I scraped a couple of the castings, which me and the guy above me ( cool guy) had found the problem and talked it out, the new guy over him made a big deal about it and in front of the whole shop like a anus ! Hot tempered back then which ended my machinists career. I was getting married two weeks after I left that shop too.🤷 Been beating on car fenders ever since .

[roamer]

This is excellent advice for anyone working in industrial production. Never be afraid to learn new things and machines! I've been in several industry trades in my life, including CNC machining and tool making, and on top of that having a keen interest in 3D-printing and such as a hobby. All those experiences, especially having run so many different machines, have now helped me land a job in the R&D experimental prototyping and model-making for a huge company, which comes with a nice pay raise and plenty of opportunity to continue to grow, both in skill and pay check.

Never stop learning and growing, folks. Your life and career depends on it.

[ovx]

This industry just became a joke to me
Some guy that has never ever touched or even knew about a CNC machine came into the shop I'm at making 20hr while me a guy of 10yrs knowing 2 axis lathe and live tooling lathes and 4axis mills is just making 5 dollars more than that guy.
I swear the cost of living went up and my pay hasn't gone up as much to keep up with it

[supremecommander]

Your Videos helped me understanding a bit more about modern capabilities in the machining world. As a product designer for injection molds, i am trying to design stuff in a way thats easier and faster, and cheaper to machine. I often struggle with the lack of information i get about what machining capabilities our clients actually have, due to the lack of willingness of my bosses to actually ask them.

[cheater]

How to get a raise at 99% of all companies: get a job elsewhere

[davinwatkins]

I'm just like you I went into areo space as a welder .then became a painter wire edm od grinding lathers mills cnc ., everything in the shop.plus quality..I like knowing everything where I work

[adammiller]

So my place of work we have a lvl system 1-5 based on experience but experience can be waived by skill, ‘I started at a lvl 2, I had this one supervisor at this place that refused to give anyone raises there was even a guy had worked 5 years and basically did everything and couldn’t get a raise, well he went behind his back to the VP, and basically got an 8$ raise instantly. The supervisor was so mad he tried to fight him, got fired instantly. Turns out when they were arguing he said he didn’t want anyone else to be paid as much as him since machinists can make more than supervisors if you are lvl 4-5. (Supervisors do almost nothing here not exaggerating) now that he’s gone Iv gotten 2 raises myself. This supervisor literally did not want anyone to learn anything different in fear they would get ahead of him. Now Iv had a chance to run every machine and actually get to problem solve.

[cpmcs]

Great video. "Risk is the downpayment for growth" is such a great quote. How many times have you heard someone complain that they can't do it because no one sent them to training or gave them an opportunity? When you see an opportunity or a task no one wants to do, put yourself out there and offer to try. Having such a diverse skillset allows you to look at problems differently and come up with innovative solutions because you are now looking at things as a mould maker and an EDM machinist.

[paladiumearth]

an other thing that i feel that really kills people's willingness to try new machines or new techniques is the risk of failure, and some shops strongly discourage you from making scraps, wanting that you take it slow to make it right rather than make it fast and rght.

[ramonstvol]

Well this keeps me thinking, great words. Im at a similar situation right now, Im working on a 5 Axis Mill at the moment with parts up to 300kg. 3 Weeks ago my boss came to me and asked me if I want to work on our biggest 4 Axis Mill that we have where we make parts up to 8000kg heavy because we only have 1 Guy working on this machine and we cant find one who wants to work there. And I was like na I dont like working on such huge parts, but now after hearing this, this could be the opportunity for me to keep raising up. Thank you for those words!

[tdg]

Awesome advice. Much love and gratitude

[RHCPFAN-yksw]

I’ve accepted a machining journeyman apprenticeship at my work. It’s a 4 year program where I work in every department for 1 year while going to school. 1 year in grind, Swiss, polish, and mills. Im excited because I have been stuck in 3 axis lathes for a couple years. Thank you for your content! Keep inspiring!

[ProjectShopFl]

I always wanted to learn anything and everything. Even if someone did not want to teach me I would sit back and watch.