Posted: 11/8/2010 12:10:44 PM EDT
| I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all |
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Quoted: Quoted: I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. Thanks for the replies guys. machinisttx, why are you looking to go back to school? I was looking into taking taking a few cnc and cad classes just to learn and to get my foot in the door. My decision to jump careers is not motivated by money, i like working with my hands making, fixing, breaking things. Thanks for the recommendations, ill look into Mountain View as i live in DFW. |
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I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. Thanks for the replies guys. machinisttx, why are you looking to go back to school? I was looking into taking taking a few cnc and cad classes just to learn and to get my foot in the door. My decision to jump careers is not motivated by money, i like working with my hands making, fixing, breaking things. Thanks for the recommendations, ill look into Mountain View as i live in DFW. Tarrant county community college has a full machine shop, and I *think* they got a CNC machine this year. Check all of the community colleges first - tech schools can charge up to $30k for their 'program', where you can do 2 years at a community college for under $5k. |
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I kinda in the same boat, I don't want to change jobs, but I want ot learn some machining. I'd really love to find a shop where I could do part time hours and just learn machining. I kinda mess with it a little using a mini mill at home, but would really like to learn it right from someo one who knows what they are doing. Eventually I'd like to do the CNC deal, but thats after learning the right way to make chips by hand.
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I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. |
I went to TSTC back in the 80's and I turned out OK. Not up on what they have to offer these days. I have been a machine operator and now a CNC programmer (for the last 25 yrs). I have seen jobs in this field harder to find every year, but they are still out here. Good luck with your training.
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. Thanks for the replies guys. machinisttx, why are you looking to go back to school? I was looking into taking taking a few cnc and cad classes just to learn and to get my foot in the door. My decision to jump careers is not motivated by money, i like working with my hands making, fixing, breaking things. Thanks for the recommendations, ill look into Mountain View as i live in DFW. Most of the jobs that I know of aren't going to pay much above $15 to maybe $20 an hour unless you specialize in something like EDM. Big companies, and some small ones, are moving toward hiring what amount to button pushers to change parts and push the green button once in a while. The market for genuine, skilled machinists is shrinking, as is the labor pool. Were I running a shop, I'd pay a bunch of kids $10/hr to change parts and maybe two or three guys to do setups, so I don't blame employers. It's a good skill to have, but the money really isn't there and the jobs don't seem to be either. Time to move on to bigger and better paying positions.  ETA: money talks and bullshit walks at the end of the day. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm diving head first into a career change and was wondering if anyone knows of a good/reputable CNC school. Any advice, info, and opinions is greatly appreciated. Thank's y'all Maybe check into TSTC in Waco? My employer hired some people out of TSTC. I wasn't impressed. I believe some place called Mountain View in the D/FW area offers some classes. Honestly though OP, if you're looking at changing careers and spending money on education, look into something else. I'll be going back for engineering within the next couple of semesters. Thanks for the replies guys. machinisttx, why are you looking to go back to school? I was looking into taking taking a few cnc and cad classes just to learn and to get my foot in the door. My decision to jump careers is not motivated by money, i like working with my hands making, fixing, breaking things. Thanks for the recommendations, ill look into Mountain View as i live in DFW. Tarrant county community college has a full machine shop, and I *think* they got a CNC machine this year. Check all of the community colleges first - tech schools can charge up to $30k for their 'program', where you can do 2 years at a community college for under $5k. My degree was under 2/3rds of that. |
| Yeah, I just pulled that out of my ass, IIRC it was somewhere around $800 per semester for 15-18 hours, I *think* TCC is $50/semester hour, so a 60-hour associates should cost you 3K in tuition. Order your books online and stay 1 edition behind and you can cover 2 years of books for under $200. |