I start work Monday morning. :bowingsmilie:
After 20 months of unemployment I now have a job across the street from the factory I was working at. :shrug:
I had actually gotten two job offers in one day :yoyo: and after deciding which one I would take I received another phone call for another job oppertunity :biggrin:. Going to check that one out cause they offer a better benefits package.
I will be working in my chosen profession as an industrial maintenance tech. Good money and I get to go back to school so I can receive my journyman certification.
That's great slag. How is the knife coming along?
Great news Bear! :highclap: :highclap: I'm glad that it has finally worked out for you. Good luck with the new job.
Pat
Glad to hear you got a job. 20 months without one is a long time. cc
Congrats !! :congrats:
Quote from: pitw on August 17, 2010, 08:55:57 AM
That's great slag. How is the knife coming along?
Well it looks nothing like a knife right now. In fact right now it looks like about 2 quarts worth of black sand. In fact this new job will be a godsend for help in making that knife as it is a sintering facility. I can temper it a lot easier in an electric furnace than I can in a coke fired retort.
I even have another job interview Friday morning. Going to see what kind of benifits they have.
It is always easier to find a job when you have a job.
Are either of these jobs going to cause a problem for your coming to the LBL? If so quit now so you don't have to agonize over it later :wink:.
Sure glad you got the job Slag!! Congratulations!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
When I was offered the job I told them that I needed the first weekend in Feb off and they said "that wont be a problem" so I am covered.
Quote from: slagmaker on August 17, 2010, 03:11:42 PM
When I was offered the job I told them that I needed the first weekend in Feb off and they said "that wont be a problem" so I am covered.
:yoyo: :yoyo:
Quote from: slagmaker on August 17, 2010, 03:11:42 PM
When I was offered the job I told them that I needed the first weekend in Feb off and they said "that wont be a problem" so I am covered.
Good thinking to put that in :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie:.
Glad for ya! :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
Very cool !!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Congratulations Slag !! :highclap: :highclap:
Congratulations Slag, I sure am happy for ya. :thumb2:
Congradulations Bear !! :highclap: Them Lucky Charms finally came thru for ya. :wink:
thats great news, congrats !!! :yoyo:
That is real good news, Slag! :congrats:
Welcome back to the rat race. :wink:
WTG!
Jim
Congrats Slag! :congrats:
Quote from: slagmaker on August 17, 2010, 03:11:42 PM
When I was offered the job I told them that I needed the first weekend in Feb off and they said "that wont be a problem" so I am covered.
:whew: Good thinkin'!
Well I have now compleated 3 whole days at my new place of employment :yoyo: :congrats:. It feels good to be back at work but this place is going to be taking some getting used to. It is a sintering "powder metal" facility, that means dirty, oily and nasty. That is no big deal but every factory has a background noise to it and this one has a real funky one to it. It takes some getting used to before you can actually understand what someone is saying to you :shrug:. Then there is the funky lay out of the lines and machines :rolleye:. BUT that is all right I will learn it and it shouldnt take to long. After labor day I go onto second shift :pout: thats a bummer but I will make the most of it. It will mean hunting in the mornings :wink: and it will make it a little trickier seeing my daughter :wo: but we will manage.
I am not complaining I just praise the lord I am back to work! :biggrin:
Congrats again Bear. :yoyo: :yoyo:
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on August 25, 2010, 10:02:53 PM
Congrats again Bear. :yoyo: :yoyo:
Pat
+1 We are praising the Lord with you! Hang in there.
:yoyo: Congrat's on the new job! Maint. huh??? Sure beats working for a living don't it! :biggrin: I'm maint at an automotive plant. :wink:
Yep maintenance. Been a industrial maintenance tech for 20 years or there abouts. I have worked in wood working plants, automotive plants, a plastics injection and blow molding plant, a ball bearing plant and a bread bakery. I can tell you there is nothing like it. Never the same job twice and you are not stuck in one spot watching a part go buy. Ya get to use your hands and your head. but the best part about being in maintenance............... I am "authorized personel"
You said something about getting to go to school for your journeyman papers, are ya'll multi-craft?
Yep! multi craft is the way I would describe it..
In a days time I may work on a machine with a robot on it that was made yesterday or I may work on something that was made in the 1930's, I run pipe, move machinery, hang conduit. I can pour concreate or rebuild a hydraulic pump. I have been known to weld up a tank for a waste oil recovery unit and back up a omron PLC all in the same day. I can troubleshoot a problem on a machine that I have never seen run before in my life with just a minimmal bit of knowledge on what the heck it is supposed to be doin and what it aint doin. One day I may not even open my tooll box but other days I may have to push my tool box a couple miles a day going from one broken machine to the next. I put out fires and I have to deal with other peoples emergencys all day. I am a mechanic a millwright an electrician and a few other things that I dont even know the names for. I have worked on the roof of a factory replacing a blower motor on a cooling tower when it was 15* below with a wind chill that I dont even want to guess at. I have man handeled 40 pound baking pans as they come out of the furnace at 350* for two hours straight all cause some other maintenance tech read a number wrong. I have made friends and I have made enemies. But with all that and more........
Yeah I love what I do.
Way cool Slag! :dance:
My SIL is like that & I'm soooo proud of him! ;yes;
I can't do squat so that's why I'm becoming a business manager. :loco:
:laf:
Quote from: slagmaker on August 29, 2010, 08:54:38 PM
Yep! multi craft is the way I would describe it.. I am a mechanic a millwright an electrician and a few other things that I dont even know the names for.
:innocentwhistle: Ok.... I'm going to give you a free pass on that one. :laf:
Quote from: Yotehntr on August 30, 2010, 10:39:39 AM
Quote from: slagmaker on August 29, 2010, 08:54:38 PM
Yep! multi craft is the way I would describe it.. I am a mechanic a millwright an electrician and a few other things that I don't even know the names for.
:innocentwhistle: Ok.... I'm going to give you a free pass on that one. :laf:
Some of the things I do I know there is a term for it but I am unable to remember there terminology. Like an individual that runs communications has a name and what that name is alludes me at this point in time.
I would think that the term millwright would cover what I do but I do more than just a millwright. I have worked in a union shop where if an electrician picked up a trowel he could get his butt in deep do-do, or if a mechanic were to use a VOM he would get wrote up, not by the company but by the union. I have worked at and am presently at a shop that you best know how to do anything they need ya for. THAT would be me. If I cant do it I learn how.
I worked in a shop where they only had 3 maintenance men. Not a one of them could weld, only one was an electrician and only one of them knew anything about hydraulics. The most common phrase I heard there was "we just hire that out". When I left there all of them were taking electrical courses and all were able to at least run a stick or a MiG welder. Some say the age of the jack-of-all-trades is going away but I say we are needed more than ever.
The only way to do away with the J-O-A-T's would be if you were able to do your PM's properly. But I have yet to see a company that would let a machine set long enough for a proper PM to be done to it. Most the time they go with the notion that if it isn't broke run it. If you were able to do your PM's as needed you would still need the techs to do the follow ups and a JOAT would fit the bill for that. It wouldn't matter what the PM found he could take care of it and not need to wait on a team of people to show up.