Local metalworking progress

Maybe the outlook won't be so bleak in metalworking careers for our local young people here now. I even had a young waitress ask me how to get into CNC machining right before this article came out. Since she was interested, I am surely going to take her some trade magazines to pique her interest further.

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Proly some positive fallout from American Chopper, Monster Garage, etc. Until it dawns on people what a *real* work environment is like...

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"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@rcn.net:

Myself and another guy about my age happened upon a conversation about work the other day. Seems one of the anodizer operators (~22 yr old) was complaining that he his job was too hard, he had to work too much. Now his job consists of occasionally unhanging an automated machine, checking acid temps, concentration, and doing some quality checks on the parts. Occasionally he has to wet down the masks (spraying them with a spray bottle of water). And he makes GOOD money doing this, excellent bennies, etc. The other fellow and myself were discussing how this guy has NO_CLUE what _REAL_ work is. Myself, I grew up on a farm, I *know* what a hard days' work is. My first real job was with a 'landscaping' outfit, we had 4 backhoes, 4 high-lifts, 12 dump trucks, and the yard crew vehicles. We cleared lots, dug basements, footers, installed septic systems, and leveled, raked and seeded yards. I don't think I had an 'easy' day there in the two years i worked for them, and made a whopping $4.50/hr. When you shovel 2" crushed limestone all day, 6 days a week, or are on the handle end of an 18lb rock rake for weeks at a time in the 100° heat, you learn to appreciate a non-physical, indoor job. This other fellow, he was raised by his granddad. When he was a teen, his grandpappy (as he called him) asked him whether he was going to college, or going to work.....he decided school initially, so he went to the local community college for two semesters. Decided he had enough school, he wanted to work. So, his grandpappy gets him up at 4 the next morning, and takes him to one of the local furniture factories where he had a lot of friends. They put his ass to work at 5 am, feeding lumber. 5 pm he's done for the day....grandpappy is there to pick him up. Of course, he is worn slap-assed out as his friends at the plant made _damn_ sure they worked the poor boy's ass off ALL day. (Course....he didn't know this at the time, it was all arrainged by grandpappy). This goes on for about a week, and he finally says something to his gradpappy about not liking the furniture factory. So, grandpappy has another job for him on Monday. Helping his uncle in the construction business (Pouring concrete, to be precise). So, 6 am Monday morning, Uncle shows up to pick him up. They get to the job site about 7, there is already a truck waiting. His new job: Wheelborrowing concrete. They were pouring a 300'x200' commercial building floor. He said, he had to haul that concrete as fast as he could, and about 10 am he asked his Uncle when break time was. His uncle replied "Break?....Boy, we are pouring concrete, we take a break when this floor is poured and finished." Said he got a bologna sandwich and bag of chips for lunch...and had to eat them while he was waiting on one truck to pull out and the other to back in. He said it was about 10 pm when they got back home, and he almost couldn't get out of the truck he was so tired. He said he tried to not let his grandpappy know he was that dogged tired, but he didn't much more than make it out of the shower until he was dead asleep. This told on him, as he usually stayed up until 2 or 3 in the morning. He said that grandpappy never said a word, instead waiting on him to break the conversation. He decided that next day, that his best course of action was to get his ass back in school. He found out a few years later that it had all been a set-up, but he was glad his grandpappy had the sense to make him learn the lesson and make the decision by himself. He said if pappy had just preached about school, being a hard-headed teenager, things would have turned out totally different. He worked in the Foundry for several years before he came over to the machining side, and was laughing at this young lad thinking he had a hard job. Told him he needed to go over there and grab the working end of a hand ladle for a few 12 hr shifts, he would appreciate the job he has. In conversation with this young fella, seems the hardest thing he's ever done is mow the lawn. Yea, it's a job, and all jobs suck, but he could have it MUCH worse than he does now. He ought to be thankful for the position he has, not be bitching about having to push some buttons 3 or 4 times a shift.......

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Yeah, ahm sure there is some great artiste all hamstrung up inside this guy, jes waitin to eemerge....

Teutul Sr ain't no foo'... Every once in a while shit slips out.... This walrused-lipped asshole makes

15 custom bikes per month w/ another crew! So much for "custom". Pauli's shit is these occasional high-priced "theme" bikes. I guess *he* needs to express hisself...

Sr's also got a construction iron works place out back, that you see every once in a while, but which they rarely identify.

So this bullshit profilin' ain't even real at OCC.... Sr. is too much of a prick to allow DAT unpfrofitable shit to happen.

Ahm wunnering what the real story is w/ this asshole Jesse James... When his thing was more OCC-style, they were complainin bout payrole....

Reality TV.... yer better off jes gettin excited in the shower....

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Oh yeah, dat was one smart grandpappy.... :)

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