I recently got into machining as the economy started failing. I worked at an OEM in Wisconsin (Giddings and Lewis Machine Tools LLC) in the Large part machine shop.
Now I have about a year and a half of experience (with predominately large parts, the smallest being maybe 6 to 8' long/5,000lbs largest being 30 or 40' long and 60,000lbs).
I have been looking for a job for 6 or 7 weeks now. Yet most of the Large part machine shops want someone with more experience (Understandable) and so I've been looking into smaller machine shops (smaller sized parts). I have a possible interview at a job shop near where I live.
The root of my problem is I've never worked on any small parts other than in classes at school, and I am hoping I could find someone here to ask questions and what not on how to go about machining the smaller parts, basic programming tips that sort of thing?