I have been working for two years. Now I quit my job and study other things online. I plan to switch to other jobs after the New Year.
I just want to tell you that if you are not interested in molds, I advise you to do something else quickly! Don't convince yourself that the school should do this job well after learning this major.
In fact, there are several development directions for coming out to be a mold major: First, stay in the mold room and work as a locksmith. Usually, you start with what you call an apprentice. Usually you are familiar with grinders, milling machines and drilling machines, even if you are getting started. In fact, there are cases where both hands and feet are broken, but they do not operate as required. Usually you wear gloves and drive a milling machine or something.
Apprentices mainly produce and process mold parts, whether metal molds or plastic molds. Apprentices' work is rough machining of blanks and doing those boring rough machining jobs. When you have a certain familiarity, you can follow the master to install and maintain the mold. These all require experience. If only the master were better, but he had a bad temper or bad personality. You are just a punching bag, being bossed around and getting "old" at any time.
Second, go into the office to draw and design. There are also many kinds of drawings in the mechanical industry. If you know something about mold software, you can engage in product modeling and become a product engineer in the future. Engage in numerical control programming, and then be an expert in numerical control programming and copying numbers; Then, of course, draw a mold diagram. Usually CAD is enough to draw metal molds, and UG is used for plastic molds. Do a good job of parting and drawing CAD drawings.
The third is to change careers. You know some molds and some related software. Can draw architectural CAD, interior design or mold management.
I tell you from my experience that if you really want to develop in mold, start as an apprentice in the mold room! ? Yes, but it won't be more than half a year. It is enough to know the whole process of mold production, because the experience of mold fitter has little to do with mold design, just drawing! Because drawing requires familiarity with software and mold structure, how much can you learn from fitters here?
I have worked for two years, and now in retrospect, many students have changed careers. Although I am a hardware mold repairman, my work is dirty and my salary is not much. I am unwilling to see my classmates sitting in the office typing more than their salary.
At the beginning, I was full of hope to go further in the field of mold. I have been a locksmith for a year and a half, hoping to accumulate some experience, and I will be better at drawing and designing in the future. Later, I moved to work in other places and gradually lost interest in this line!
Men are afraid of entering the wrong line, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong person! The ancients didn't cheat me!
I have been making metal molds for more than a year, but later I found that I was not sincere in drawing and designing metal molds, or that advanced molds only needed CAD drawing. Considering the lack of employment opportunities, I later went to other places to work as a plastic mold fitter. But I was exhausted there. I usually have to work overtime every day to do the most tiring work. The team leader who took us to work was a son of a bitch who ordered me to go!
What bothers me most is that there are many make-up teachers there, but most of them come out to work after graduating from high school. I do the same job as them! Nothing at first, but for them, I am a junior college student and a "college student" in their usual eyes. These perverts seem to get a different kind of psychological comfort from me Taking me as an example, he said to me with emotion, "Do you college students come here to work?"
As a result, I resigned after working for more than a month. Later, I went out for an interview with a big factory and worked for a while.
Now I'm completely uninterested in this matter! And I lost it for quite a while! I thought a lot at first: What can I get in the mold industry? Salary? If you are a locksmith, even if you don't have many masters, you are dirty and tired! Drawing and designing? Will someone recruit me? That's it. The money has increased, but what about the working environment? Now most factories have moved to those places in the suburbs where birds don't shit. If you don't work in your hometown, you have to stay! Usually go back to the dormitory to sleep after work? It takes more than half an hour to go to the city by car? The entertainment program is the SB TV series on the TV in the canteen outside?
What can this business give me?