Originally Posted by Plankton

I ran a turret lathe for a while at Chicago Roll quite a few years ago. It gets a bit mind numbing after a few months, but it's good work. I was in between jobs as a CAD guy and I'd take any job really (mechanic, welding, shop clean-up, gas station attendant, etc.) when ever I found myself in that situation, and this place happened to be right next door to where I was staying at the time, so it was really convenient. I learned fast and was cranking out pipe form rolls with the best of them. Pretty soon the owners found out about my CAD abilities and started fighting over where I should be placed, either in the drafting dept. or keep me where I was. That's when I decided to tell them I was just their until I found a job in my chosen field, which was drafting, and they weren't too happy about that so they fired me right there on the spot. About an hour after they fired me I got a job working at GMEMD designing the SD90MAC locomotive working with Unigraphics, which is a Unix based CAD system, now called Siemens NX.