Originally Posted by
cncjunky
I'm not saying don't try, but todd is a complete jack off who is a obvious waste of life living in fairyland out of reallity . All I'm saying about school is, the colleges take your money and promise you jobs, leaving you with no money and no job. Where do you end up flipping burgers or doing nothing. I know a guy who spent over $30,000 on schooling in the automotive industry and was promised a job and what is he doing, setting on his as$ doing nothing. The only job he was offered was a $7.50 an hour job to change oil, he was promised by the school he'd get a job making at least $39,000 a year. I know another guy like you, he spent the money to go to a community college to learn cnc programming, gcode and exc., my opinion is he paid for something if he wanted enough he could've learned for free, not to mention it got him absolutely no where but broke and in debt. His family and him own a shop and have been in business for nearly 60 years. Now there hurting, spent over payed on a cnc, overpayed to learn how to do cnc when they could've got a machine and learned first hand, and pretty much made bad business decisions. Being skeptical about things is far from knowing nothing, my dad has been in the business for 30 years and by being skeptical and conservative spending he has prevailed and kept the business alive. You have to be smart to survive in this business and take it very seriously, if you plan it being your bread and butter. Me I guess I got lucky to fall into a wealth of machinery and knowledge in the machining, fabrication, and welding area. I learned cnc code by picking up the controller manual and studying it and studying and studying it, all my time payed off. Then I got a cad cam system, studied and studied and studied got that going. After years of learning I am where I am. Spending close and beleive me close to no money in comparison to what alot of these shops spend on machinery and programs. Where does it get them by spending all that money on machinery ? It puts them out of business, then all there stuff goes to auction "sad but true" and a conservative spender like my self comes along and scarfs up the machinery for a smoking deal. Boils down to people making bad decisions and putting themselves in a bad situation. I myself would rather wait if I can for a good deal then take a humongous risk of losing it all. Hey some people take a risk and go into debt over a machine and it turns out good, but the majority lose everything. The proof is in the stack of machine auction flyers I have on my counter top of all the shops and big companies that have gone out of business. Good luck my friend, you'll need it just like we all do.