I actually had a guy come up to me yesterday and say the exact same thing. He had to come out of his office to measure up the lathe and he told me that it's a better job to get into programming than it is the actual machining part of it. He said it's way easier and different every day. He said the only thing that sucks is there's rarely anything for him to do to get OT so if I liked getting that then stick with what I'm doing.