• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    1.) Go find a temp agency, apply to get some job, any job, in a fabrication shop or machine shop.

    2.) Show up every day mostly sober, even if you’re sweeping the floor or running a grinder.

    3.) Take an interest in thr equipment. Learn about it. Learn how to use calipers and a tape measure.

    4.) Eventually they will train you on a machine. Maybe a mill, maybe a lathe, maybe a plasma cutter or brake or laser. Learn how to run it, learn how to run some of the other machines.

    5.) Keep learning and never want for a job again.