Machining jobs on the rise?

I was fascinated this morning when I opened the Cleveland paper to the want adds. (No, I'm not looking...but very tempting!) There were at least 15 machining related jobs available, and good ones; from CNC operators/programmers to foreman. And this is the usually light Friday edition. I'll check-out the Sunday want-adds. I wonder if an upswing is coming? My local mill supply is also getting a little busy, more cutting tools being sold. Anybody else notice a surge in related jobs?

Reply to
Tom Gardner
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Where have you been for the last 8-9 months? I can't speak for CNC, but sheet metal has been good for at least that long. So many marginal shops folded that there's barely enough capacity left to meet the current demand in one shift.

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Jim Stewart

Upswing coming? A majority of my customers are putting on second or third shifts and have been doing so for several months.

Gunner

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Gunner

Nah, couldn't be. The economy's in the tank. Don't you read the New York Times? ;-)

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MKloepster

It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what Gunner foisted Sat, 07 Aug 2004 08:05:04 GMT on rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:

Depends on where you are. Today's Seattle Sunday paper has about five column inches of ads for machinists of various stripes. The Portland Sunday paper, in May, was about five inches short of two columns. (Okay, so one was for Idaho, and one for Kalamath Falls. Any farther south and it would be California.)

And the big company I worked for during the winter, closed its doors "temporarily", trying to get a line of credit to make sure they meet payroll, etc. Another company I used to work for, that is closed :-)

tschus pyotr

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pyotr filipivich

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