Re: How did you learn the Machinist trade?
I started machining in high school, one of those rare schools that still had machine shop as a class. A couple of years after high school I got a job at a major plastics manufacturing plant just outside of Dallas. And got into the tool and die shop, went thru the apprenticeship program and eventually became a machinist in the shop. And have now been a tool/die machinist for the past 30 years.
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