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milje
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- Aug 6, 2007
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- Age
- 39
- City
- Wakefield, MI
- Vehicle Year
- 2004
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- Automatic
For the past four years, I've been working at the city during the summer, before that I piled lumber at my dad's sawmill every summer for four or five years. I was all ready to work at the city again this year, then last week I got an e-mail that I had just about gave up on receiving.
There's a company in my hometown, Extreme Tool & Engineering, they make injection molds. They're doing really good (they lost a big contract with Nokia about 2 years ago, had about 50 people and had to lay off 15 of them, they're back up to 43 now), seem to pay pretty good, and do the type of work that I want to do when I'm done with college.
They're located about 6 miles from my parents house, and are also (conveniently) opening another office (no machining done here, mostly engineering, file transfer, mold design, other computer stuff). So I got an e-mail from them last week, I talked to them at the career fair up here earlier this spring and said I was very interested in an internship. The guys at the fair didn't ask about my GPA or anything, I never got called in for an interview (though I did go in and talk to the President over Christmas break, gave him a sample of some of my 3D modeling, toured the shop, he did say that he would like to see a higher GPA, didn't sound too promising), I had pretty much given up on hoping to hear back from them.
He said they'd like to offer me a job, 40-50 hours a week during the summer, 10-15 (or however many I can get) up here when I'm in school. I'd be working with (I'd assume on a limited basis, but still get some experience) most of the different equipment and processes at the shop, CAM, CMM, Automated Work Cells, Injection Molding, and EDM. Pay is about $2.50 an hour better than what I'd make at the city (still not great, but for where I am, not bad, plus I don't have to find a place to live).
Finally a real job
Oh and I start at 7 AM instead of 6 like I have done for the past 8 years. Too bad I probably won't be getting Fridays off like I used to (worked four 10 hour days at the city and my dad's sawmill), but I'll take that.
There's a company in my hometown, Extreme Tool & Engineering, they make injection molds. They're doing really good (they lost a big contract with Nokia about 2 years ago, had about 50 people and had to lay off 15 of them, they're back up to 43 now), seem to pay pretty good, and do the type of work that I want to do when I'm done with college.
They're located about 6 miles from my parents house, and are also (conveniently) opening another office (no machining done here, mostly engineering, file transfer, mold design, other computer stuff). So I got an e-mail from them last week, I talked to them at the career fair up here earlier this spring and said I was very interested in an internship. The guys at the fair didn't ask about my GPA or anything, I never got called in for an interview (though I did go in and talk to the President over Christmas break, gave him a sample of some of my 3D modeling, toured the shop, he did say that he would like to see a higher GPA, didn't sound too promising), I had pretty much given up on hoping to hear back from them.
He said they'd like to offer me a job, 40-50 hours a week during the summer, 10-15 (or however many I can get) up here when I'm in school. I'd be working with (I'd assume on a limited basis, but still get some experience) most of the different equipment and processes at the shop, CAM, CMM, Automated Work Cells, Injection Molding, and EDM. Pay is about $2.50 an hour better than what I'd make at the city (still not great, but for where I am, not bad, plus I don't have to find a place to live).
Finally a real job
Oh and I start at 7 AM instead of 6 like I have done for the past 8 years. Too bad I probably won't be getting Fridays off like I used to (worked four 10 hour days at the city and my dad's sawmill), but I'll take that.
