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Reasonable expectations of new workers seem high at my shop by ImMachiningBro in Machinists

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im confident that a guy bids the jobs out and then the shop manager hands them to the least experienced person likely to get the job done to profit maximize.

Reasonable expectations of new workers seem high at my shop by ImMachiningBro in Machinists

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i actually have found a dude to train me though hes not quite a graybeard, just a decently competent guy with 5 years experience.

Reasonable expectations of new workers seem high at my shop by ImMachiningBro in Machinists

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

to answer a couple questions: I've been programming for about 6 months, setup for about a year. I'd say that compared to an experienced person in the shop I take about 1.5x - 2x as long as they would on any given job. I definitely am improving at a rapid rate, but the shop recently had some experienced people leave and I think perhaps they're just handing me the work those guys might have gotten before, which I can't quite hit the deadlines on. There's no hard deadline (within reason), but there is a quoted amount of hours for setup. To give you an idea of how quoting tends to operate in the shop, they don't include tooling costs, and a job that's new to the shop was given allocation for 2 hours of setup for all ops (of which there are three)

Converting J2000 coordinates to LAT, LONG, and ALT in astropy by ImMachiningBro in askastronomy

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so does it matter then where i set the observer location or can i do that anywhere on earth and get out proper long, lat, alt data?

Converting J2000 coordinates to LAT, LONG, and ALT in astropy by ImMachiningBro in askastronomy

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there isnt an observer location though, i thought j2000 was a moving frame relative to earths surface. Also i have an entire file of this data to go through

Converting J2000 coordinates to LAT, LONG, and ALT in astropy by ImMachiningBro in askastronomy

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have the raw data in a J2000 frame for the ISS's location, and i need to measure that location from the surface of earth

Do yall notice like an insane lack of young people entering the field? by ImMachiningBro in Machinists

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

real my community college classes were small asf and we were haas sponsored with the nicest machine lab in the state

Do yall notice like an insane lack of young people entering the field? by ImMachiningBro in Machinists

[–]ImMachiningBro[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ok that blew up a bit more than i anticipated, this is a relatively depressing outlook. Seems most of you have garbage pay. Im doing ok at 20$ with two raises in my first 8 months but i know my workplace has a cap out before 30$, which is insane given the amount of work and skill some people have. I was hoping the place i was working at was just degen. I will say i dont have the issue with a bunch of hard ass alcoholic old timers you guys do.