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I do, 12 years of punching and forming on hydraulic presses, mostly Pacific brand and a gigantic Cincinnati.
Last two years I've been working on some welding robots.
I thoroughly enjoy it; some stuff is hard to get used to, some machines run on windows 10 and others are like pic related.
I use this exact model, and there is quite the learning curve and little quirks to the machine and firmware to get used to.

Assuming you're thinking about applying for a job somewhere?
AMA (I'll answer anything that won't dox myself or tell what company I work at)

>>2875997
I work at glass factory. OSHA is king as it'sore expensive to handle injuries than it is to prevent it. It's repetitive as all hell but I have headphones that look like earplugs so it's all good for me. Also been great at getting me into shape.
A large contingent of borderline retards for co-workers.

>>2876000
I'm the poster above you, do you guys wear the cool gloves and sleeves that will shatter the glass?

>>2875997
Yeah, it’s okay. If you’re too competent they’ll put you on something else or give you more tasks. Thats how I got put on cnc machines for the first time

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>>2876002
No we wear high collared versions of these along with assless chaos and two layers of gloves.
Turns.oit they arent stab proof as someone unfortunately found out recently.

>>2875997
It's alright. Definitely better than something customer facing if you're a sperg. Coworkers are usually pretty colorful. It's kind of like people that work in restaurants but less degenerate. Without any specific skills like machining or drafting, you're going to be doing the same boring shit every day. At some point, someone that works in the office and has never stepped foot on the floor will make a mistake that will require you to work overtime while they get to enjoy their days off. I highly recommend medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturing. It's a lot cleaner and competency gets rewarded faster.

Its mindnumbingly boring as fuck

>>2875997
Only ever been in fmcg as an equipment guy.

Depending on what they make there’s noise, dust, smell, lots of cleaning, and the dreaded night shift. Some industries are pretty chill like ice cream, tobacco, coffee and pharma. But high volume low margin stuff like potato chips, bakes, packaging materials etc are usually chaos when the lines run and boring when they don’t.

If you don’t want it to be mind numbing at least go try for some modern, high tech factory: when building new factories they actually put measures to make the work more bearable (but in the late 80s early 90s not so much). Most people that say they’ll like night shifts end up hating them, except for some night owl people that just want to get paid and spend the day gaming or fishing or whatever.

For the rest it depends a lot on where you are and what kind of industry

>>2875997
It fucking sucked, mandatory regulated 15 min breaks at 1045 and 1345, 30 min lunch break. I was cutting and processing data center electrical plugs, and doing QC testing cause of my QC background. They wanted me to move into making generators since the one engineer liked me. I ended up leaving and went back to my field. The only thing I liked about it was being able to listen to headphones. Also, I finally realized women really hate women.

Miserable.
3 months of the first year of my apprenticeship I did time in the press shop. 75t flywheel press, 1t stillages stacked 2 high on each side. One side is the "in" pile, other side the "out" pile. One part at a time
>put in the press
>close the safety door (presses were old as shit)
>press the pedal, press stamps the metal
>open the door, take part out, throw into the "out" pile
>repeat until "in" pile is empty
>forklift driver comes and replaces the "in" pile with more full stillages
>repeat for 7.6 hours a day
>9 mins morning break
>23 minutes lunch break
>go home
>want to die

>>2876103
>Also, I finally realized women really hate women.
Why is it always this way?
I mean if two guys don't like each other they'll just say "fuck you" and still work, two women that don't like each other will scheme to ruin lives.

>>2876110
Crazy thing was the first lady there, people knew she was a bitch and ignored her. Soon as they added another spanish woman, there was drama picking sides and everything.

>>2876112
Pussy can ruin a man.

>>2875997
I ditched nursing to work a low skill job in a paint factory last year. I enjoy it so much. Stable schedule, low stress work and it's fun to use all the different equipments. Using cranes and driving lifts are fun. I'm starting a mechanical course soon to progress in salary and put my logic and problem solving skills I developed in nursing to good use

>>2876225
>left nursing to work in a factory
Why?

>>2875998
>enter /adv/
I'd rather not

I worked in a Hyundai plant for several years, lots of negroes but one perk of working for a huge corp like that is you can steal so much shit as long as you don't get retarded about it

>>2876238
Because it's high stress hell you get assaulted you can get sued your schedule fucking sucks you don't get holidays you have to do obligatory over time and end up working 16h days and all that for around the salary I will make as a factory mechanic here felt like an easy choice for me

Worked production in 2
>company that made industrial ovens
>pay was shit
>24 hour production so morning shift started at 4am
>mostly immigrants or kids needing easy money
>loud and boring
>tired coming in, tired going home
>lasted 2 weeks

>2nd place made medical equipment
>pay was shit
>9-5 so pretty good
>mostly immigrants or kids needing easy money
>quiet and boring
>tired coming in, tired going home
>lasted 3 years because of the coof so there were hiring freezes everywhere (should have just done welfare)
Never work production, being a burger flipper was more mind stimulating.

while I was in trade school the teacher took us to a local HVAC manufacturing facility for johnson controls' AC units (i think, this was years ago)

the tour guide hyped it up with the R&D stuff, but as we enter the shop floor the morale is shit. I saw a white board to the side with a matrix full of red x's, meaning they missed multiple quotas / fucked up QA checks

it looked like the shittiest place to work

don't do stupid drugs
don't get a DUI
learn higher technical knowledge

follow these steps to never have to work in a factory

>>2876248
did you reply to the wrong thread

>>2876252
What about that sweet crazy nurse pussy I keep hearing about though???

>>2875997
Carpet Mill as a creeler, ok pay/benefits but many mexicans and unless you have a good crew you will never hit quota. (You will never have a good crew)

>>2875997
don't do it unless it's unionized.

>>2876860
I worked in a unionized one and it was shit. The boomers didn't know that 1.5 pay overtime is mandated everywhere and you cant be forced to work over 60 hours if you don't want to where I am. The "plus side" was guaranteed 50 cent wage increase every 4 months but iv gotten way bigger bumps at other jobs. We didn't even get health benefits.

best kind of work is the kind that involves you heading into an office in the beginning and end of the day but has you doing jobs out in the field. Jobs where your breaks and lunch are closely watched or where you have to punch your time are absolute hell

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>>2876676
>AIDS causes blindness

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I work in food manufacturing with cheese

The difficulty depends on what you're doing.

Some lines just need raw 700lb cheese blocks loaded in and the machine does like 95% of the work, what's manual is quite repetitive and strenuous on the back.

Others require all manual labor and sorting depending on the order spec. You could be manually moving 6 of these bulk blocks every 30 minutes one day and other days be lucky to do a block every hour.

>>2877539
I also want to say that hand cutting cheese SUCKS ASS. Fuck that order.

Union Primary Steel Production
>pay is great, dental is amazing, vision is shit
>Insurance will cover your wife and all children
>Many different jobs ranging from do absolutely nothing your entire shift to extreme manual labor in 140 Fahrenheit heat, you get placed and moved randomly
>Most jobs are very reasonable in terms of both responsibility and physical demands
>12 hour shifts, but you get a day off for every day you work, either pitman schedule or 4 on 4 off

>>2877539
I'm a trucker and I frequently pick up those big ass cheese blocks from the hilmar plant in dalhart, TX and take then to wisconsin for processing. All my friends & family think it's hilarious that wisconsin cheese comes from texas.

>>2875997
I love repetitive production line work, a little basic workplace safety awareness is required but otherwise you can mostly zone out thinking about other stuff.
Unfortunately it's now pretty much off limits to white guys, the flood of flips, jeets, spics, etc... are almost given exclusive reign over the unskilled labour market.

>>2877568
> wisc cheese comes from texas
I guess they probably have a lot of cows in texas eh?
>>2877539
I had no idea cheese comes in huge blocks like that.

I always wanted to work in a factory but It sounds like the novelty would wear off quickly.

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>>2875997
i worked in a cookie factory, the machines that put the cookies in the wrappers would constantly stop working properly and all the cookies coming down the conveyor belt would have to be dumped into plastic boxes instead, those would be sent off to a pig farm, i think those pigs ate nothing but cookies

>>2876112
Why is it always Spanish women who do that shit too? Honestly, the only women who should ever be manager are ones from current or formerly communist countries. The only 2 respectable female managers I ever had were from Serbia and Vietnam respectively.

I work in a paint factory, not really doing manufacturing though. IDK how these guys do this shit for 12 hours a day for 30+ years. Watching a fill line run for 30 minutes has me falling asleep.

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>>2879845
> watching paint fill line
Thats what I don’t get about “cheap chinese labor” … seems like a lot of factories in china are completely automated anyway, so I think that’s larely bullshit.

Another thing that turned out to be complete bullshit was china using “child labor” … the one child per person law made it so most factory workers in china are old men and ladies.

So i dont get it.

>>2877539
Did you eat plenty of cheese, at least? Cheese is pretty high in protein and micronutrients. Free healthy food.

>>2879662
Did you eat cookies too, though?

>>2875997
Cummins, assembling diesel engines.
Assembly line is great when the build rate is climbing, layoffs come as soon as it slows.
Heavy machine lines get hot, the coolant tanks are under the floor. Hell in the summer
Press and other light machining get incredibly boring.
If your ok with monotony, social, and willing to make friends with coworkers. You'll be ok.
If the constant threat of layoffs and lack of upward mobility and routine bore you, look elsewhere

>>2875997

Very loud, use ear protection.

Concrete floors and walking is hard on your feet. Get good shoe padding.

Machinery will kill. Be vigilant.

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Working CMM programming in aerospace and while very demanding it's fun to be surrounded by all the cool shit and not having the responsibility of working directly on the parts. Also you'd be surprised how many engineers will come looking for a fight because your program says they're doing a bad job and then find out after wasting months on tests that it was indeed their fault, to measure your shit with a caliper if you want your parts "within tolerance"

I started working in electronics manufacturing.
I don't solder but I probably have lead brain cancer from lead dust in the air anyway.
I have mild tinnitus from 6500 hours of listening to 73 dB hissing air
There were earplugs but NO ONE ever wore them so I didn't either.
Worst part is I knew better but I thought the earplugs were meant for the high-pressure hoses that were rarely used.
I also had to get up at 5:30 a.m. after being a NEET for 13 months so I started sleeping less and less.
Now I sleep 5 hours a night on weeknights. I feel numb to reality and my penis is broken.
Fuck factories. Oh and yeah my feet and legs are always sore and my imagination and soul are fucking dead. I'm a 30 year old skinnyfag. My girlfriend wants me to buy a house soon or else "we have no future" and she'll leave me.

worked in a jeld-wen door skin factory for 3 years. it was rotating shifts which fucking sucked. team leaders were sometimes good and sometimes dumb drunk assholes. coworkers were mostly okay but sometimes dumb drug addicted assholes. salary workers in the factory building were mostly retarded dickheads. i rotated through a lot of jobs. some were good, some were miserable.

>driving forklifts
fun and easy. sometimes made me nervous when picking or placing shit really high up, but overall my favorite job
>general helper
fucking miserable/strenuous/un-ergonomic/boring grunt work. sometimes dangerous too.
>machine operator
usually tolerable/boring but fucking miserable if machinery breaks or needs shutdown procedures. changing press dies in the summer fucking sucked.
>grading board quality
extraordinarily boring, pray for death boredom

>this unit works at a factory
>this unit does task deemed to dangerous for humans
>this unit picks up a part and places it on a conveyor belt
>this unit this repeats the task 24x7
>this unit does not rest
>this unit will kill all humans

>>2881848
Stop looking at porn
Get married then

>>2881848
stop working at this job. become a nurse. payed education

stop supporting her dreams. she won't let this go. isn't it enough that you are working? it fucking should be

is it going to be enough?

>>2876252
wrong site then (nurse)

>7 to 4
>never making overtime. 's there a problem? GREAT, it isn't mine now.
>low stress (what am i? a fucking spastic?)
>low impact physical work

i'll let you off on the schedule. it's different, but holy managable. imagine working in a gray in gray area, just on your machine. 8 hours! god. kill me now

>>2876249
Only steal 2 cars per month and you should be ok

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>>2881996
I stopped looking at porn a while ago.
I "look at some" while browsing /gif/ with some friends on screenshare, but we were watching rekt videos together no porn
Even just glancing at the porn I felt no enticement. My libido is absolutely dead.

>>2881998
Isn't nursing like 12 hour shifts of people puking blood onto you?
Even if it's paid for, at least I have my weekends off right now so I can still have friends.
She won't let it go, no.
Today we looked at a house for 150k with a 400 dollar a month HOA land rent fee.
I said no to it and she said we need to either make an offer or get an apartment or else we break up basically.
Then she walked it back because I held firm, because while I am a beta bitch, I finally find my spine when it comes to my money.
We almost broke up and I almost let it happen but I would have regretted it.
It's normal for a woman to want to move in together after 2 years of dating I'm just a loser who lives in his parents' basement.

>>2882090
Get married and have kids. You're not even alive yet. Start going to church.

You could also just be having dick trouble because she's been riding you lately about the house. You all have wasted two of the most fertile years of her life if you break up and you're probably the best either of you are gonna do.

>>2882097
no we were having dick troubles our entire relationship
and even when I got a 45 year old woman to suck my dick i didnt get hard
I can't even get hard to jerk off anymore.

>>2881999
checked
a lot of factories are low stress and low impact physical work
but you're still on your feet all day and it's boring as hell

>>2882090
Just dump her tbqh. If she's willing to play constant brinksmanship over a house, she values the house WAYYYY more than you.

This means:
>You cuck and buy her a house
>2 week honeymoon period where she blows more of your money furnishing it
>then reality sets in and she realizes the house isn't what she actually wanted, she wanted you to be a fundamentally different person in a way that her dog brain cannot articulate
>she starts to resent you
>she either cheats on you, "opens" your relationship, or makes some other insane demand about getting you out of the house so she can turn it into a whorehouse for her next 30 hinge dates.

Know your worth, jerkoff. You make good money. You're only 30. Your dick doesn't work, so what is this bitch giving you that makes her worth the stress? Cut the bitch loose and get a new one, or get a hobby. You sound completely burned out. Maybe get yourself into a yoga class.

Ignore:
>anyone saying you should "just get married". You don't just "get married". You sign a legally binding contract by which you owe her half your shit. DIVORCE COURT IS NOT LIKE A REAL COURT. YOU WILL LOSE.

>anyone who says "you're wasting this woman's valuable fertile years"... boo hoo. Women are alcoholic, overpaid, spoiled children from ages 16 to 50. Fuck em.

>>2882159
Well he's wasting the best years of his life too. Have kids. You're not even playing the same game as everyone else. Of course you're posting on basketweaving forums.

Don't discount this guys advice either though. Either cut it off or get married and commit fully. She right in that fucking around for 2 years with no commitment either way is fucking dumb.

>>2879875
>Did you eat cookies too, though?
wouldn't you?

>>2882167
I wouldn't be giving this advice if I hadn't been through all this shit myself.

Anon, do not ever, under any circumstances, have kids with the wrong person. Do not do it. The games she plays over the house will hurt ten times worse when its over your kids. And don't get married just to "do something with your life". You have a good career. Look into buying a house for yourself and making it nice. There's a lot of ways to get skin in the game without playing the odds at the divorce court casino.

>>2875997
tool and die fag, i love working in a factory 90% of my day is fucking around/talking to people/drinking coffee/pretending to work

the bucket dumpers on the other hand idk, they get paid shit, treated like shit; what can you expect in a job where anybody is better than nobody

I work as a maintenace tech at a European food factory. There are not two days in a row that are the same. Some days we just go around and adjust sensors to keep the line running, other days we bang our heads against a wall for hours in order to get old ass equipment to run again.

Production see us as Gods for some reason.

>>2882458
I'm starting trade school soon for factory maintenance and repairs. Excited to move from production to this. Any tips for a guy like me?

>>2882464
Get into 3D printing. The more DIY the printer, the better.

Not even kidding - if you know how to put together a printer from parts and calibrate it to working order then you have an excellent foundation for keeping factory machines running, you basically just need the practical experience then.

>>2882464
>>2882468
Also, the moment you whip out a pair of calipers to measure whatever plastic part just broke and then bring in a printed new part the next day is the moment you make yourself indispensible to the operation.

>>2882471
>indispensible
*indispensable
Too early, can't english

>>2877582
>I had no idea cheese comes in huge blocks like that.
It depends on the cheese, stuff that comes in wheels can't be made in a block (duh). Shit like cheddar, yeah, probably in blocks

>worked in a factory for eight years, half of it in production and half in QC
>didn't really try for the QC position, it just happened because they were short on people with any kind of basic computer literacy
>ended up rewriting a lot of their paperwork, making tools to make the computer work easier for new coworkers, repairing office equipment, etc
>technician for the computers and servers gets friendly with my supervisor, cons him into borrowing me for a lot of his work
>software is badly written, hardware is two decades old, servers are full of junk because the office people just clutter everything up
>during the overhaul, stumble across records of tests the QC department is supposed to be running but haven't touched in years
>audit's coming up, these tests are on the itinerary
>inform supervisor, he panics because no one can run these anymore
>busy with other stuff, just scribble out a quick Excel formula that will grab the records we still have and fabricate new ones that will allow us to pass the inspection and give us time to get the old samples, so we can fix it later
>a year later, find the records again, still untouched since it was filled with fake stuff
>tried to get them to pay attention to it
>fired for insubordination less than a week later

I'd be angry about it, but I figured it was probably going to happen eventually. Their databases were mysteriously wiped clean a few weeks later, due to a script that required regular maintenance to keep it from doing exactly that.

Such a pity they didn't have a competent technician on staff for that.

>>2883720
Based dead man's switch, anon.

I've been fired for similar reasons trying to fix a shit workplace before. It's not fun.

>>2875997
I worked in a steel-product factory during a college summer. They made steel door frames, door hinges, steel cable, and some other steel shit.

I somehow got lucky and ended up in the warehouse and than the warehouse guy got sick, so I just drifted the forklift from the warehouse to the factory building. I still don't really know how to use it, but it was simple enough.

One time the big boss (literally cartoonish short red fat guy) saw me and yelled at me and said I am fired, but he didn't know it was a summer job, and I was like "oh ok" and laughed in his face, but then they didn't have anyone else who could drive the forklift, so I kept drifting it for another 3 weeks. There was a super-smooth piece of concrete that always had water run off and I could literally drift across the whole thing.

The crackhead meth addict redneck women working the assembly line with no teeth were all about it too.

If I had to actually work there, on the assembly line, it would be horrible. I did spend most of the day delivering the right hinges to the right place, but the forklift drifting was the highlight.

>>2882458
This is me, word for word, except the last part. We're not allowed to stop the line for a minor fix so instead they run shit until it becomes a massive failure that stops the line for half a day. We get the blame every time. I'd love the job if anyone listened to us and we got some appreciation. Quitting as soon as the paperwork for my new job is 100% done.

>>2882471
3d printing is almost never a usable replacement for ordinary injection molded plastic parts. Almost anything with clips or tabs on it is impossible to reproduce with FDM because the part orientation and layer lines make the tabs very weak.
>>2883720
Unless they display a clear appreciation for your talents, just don't bother with shit like this. It's not your problem, you'll never get even a tiny 0.00001% sliver of the increased profits you bring the company, and they deserve to either fail or continue wallowing in their own shit.

>>2875997
>Be me, chemist
>First job was a manufacturing operator (with a flashy title!) at an API facility
>It's bullshit.
>Second job was a manufacturing chemist (actually used a couple things I learned in college!) at a biotech facility
>It's bullshit.
>Now working QC at a veterinary medicine facility
>It's bullshit.
Factory work is bullshit. This is verifiably true in the chemical industry. Right now I'm mulling over whether I should take a few college classes to get into a medical lab.

summer before college
>deburr diesel engine throttle bodies
>covered in metal dust, developed eye irritation despite eye protection and mask

after a couple contract jobs dried up
>basic production of pet flea medication
>put thing in box, repeat
>talk to latinas all day
>$9/hour
it was nice for a few weeks

>>2888084
> talk to latinas all day
Talk? What about smash?

>>2875997
It varies wildly.
My current factory job is fast paced but also, in my position anyway, mentally involved.
I'm adjusting machine parameters, replacing dies and tooling, troubleshooting quality defects and using a tape gun like an uzi.
My last job was assembly line work and had a coke head boss who engaged in blatant nepotism and fucking sucked.

I've done factory work for the last 13 years, 10 at my previous job, 3 at my current one.

Factory work is often very repetitious but usually pays more than something like retail with the added bonus of never dealing with customers. Plus usually room for upward movement without needing an education.
It's potentially dangerous as fuck, depending on the place but some places aren't at all.
If you just want to shut off your brain and make money, entry level factory work is ideal.
If you're going to hate work either way, might as well get the most $$$ for it you can.
Be wary of safety issues, don't let any work place fuck you up but don't let that scare you from trying.
I've learned some useful skills that translate to other fields and have more $$$ built up and benefits than my friend who's only ever done retail and still lives with his folks.

>>2880363
Columbus, IN? I interned there last summer it was fun.

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Thread got me curious so I looked at google and glassdoor reviews of factories I used to work at.

One place has 50/50 reviews with the 5 star ones just saying "good summer job" and all the 1 star ones complaining about management

Other place has a small work staff but recent reviews are all jeets complaining about working conditions, reviews from years back (when i worked) essentially say "pays but is dead end".

I work in a meat plant shackling the beast by the leg and sending them up the chain off the killing table. Hard manual work and juggling a few buttons to keep them moving across the table and get the elevator chain to meet the shackle at the right moment. Also working a hose to give them a quick clean. What makes it more interesting than a lot of factories I suppose is probably the animals themselves. They're electrically stunned unconscious before they hit the table and then hit with a stabilizing current to hold them still for the slaughter. It's actually very humane they have no idea whats going on and are bled out. But sometimes they might fall out of the stunning box on a funny angle and we got to jump up on the table to kill them and muscle them around to meet the shackle. Or they might still kick a bit by reflex while you are going for their leg. I wear motocross armour and a cricket helmet for that reason. These are cattle mostly big bulls and steers. Even more intersting but very rare, is if they recover from the stun before they can be killed and jump up off the table. As you can imagine they are not happy to wake up suddenly in a factory floor surrounded by men. In that case we slam some gates and get the fuck out of there, and come back with a gun

>>2888130
>Talk? What about smash?

"ey anon you gonna put a baby all up in this or what?"

I've never worked at a factory but any time I look up a factory on Google maps the reviews are 1.5 stars out of 5 and every review talks about how the managers are nepotistic and nobody gets a raise or promotion unless they suck the managers dick
How true is this generalization where you work?

>>2875997
You’re just kind of a cog, and they always act like you fuck everything up to get you to move faster

>>2876110
Men are bred to be warriors and workers

Women hunt and gather and utilize social clout to survive, the drama is literally how they can afford to exist