Thanks for the response. I just celebrated my first year anniversary with Williams Industries. I am currently over all shipping duties, do some light manual machining, operate CNC as necessary, and have produced one program for our CNC mill.
In school, I have finished my manual classes at Athens Tech and have already took CAD/CAM which required a pair of dice and a link which I made an A on both. I also made an airpowered wobbler engine which has precision fits of slip, snug, and press, tolerances to .0005 and some GD&T.
If I were to give myself advice from the last year, have more confidence in what I do. I still ask questions I should already know the answer to or am not confident in, but I can tell that those are now fewer and that I can hold tolerances better.