creedtown182
Aluminum
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2010
- Location
- york, pa
I have just started in a large company that has a union a few months back. Now I got a phone call from another union shop offering a machinist apprenticeship 8000 hour program. The work is really big though, bores are like 8 feet in diameter and some of the work looked to be 30 feet tall. I'm sure journeyman papers are good to have but I already do have some basic papers through NIMS, the National Institute for Metalworking Skills. Where I am working now, the pay isn't the greatest and who knows if it will go up after the contract next year. Right now where I'm working, it is air conditioned, and the work atmosphere is pretty laid back. If I jump jobs at this time, I'm not sure if I would be allowed to come back if the other job with the apprenticeship doesn't pan out. I won't take much of a paycut to go to the apprenticeship job, and it does have a higher payscale, as of right now anyway. Are journeyman papers a thing of the past? Now it seems like everyone wants a college degree in something.