Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] G code standard vs. opinion was Re: Learning G Code

I think your comment, below, is one more reason manufacturing is doomed in
this country. I *don't* think this is an evolution of language. Quite the
contrary - I think it is a wonderful example of the failings of liberal
backed, 'feel good' schooling. "Yes, you use the wrong word and the kid next
to you uses the right word, but we'll give both of you a blue ribbon for
using words at all!"

Until we can repair the fundamental education system for things so basic as
the language in which we communicate, it's wishful thinking to believe we'll
have useful adults coming out of high school, much less college (hell, they
have to be able to get *IN* the college!) that will be able to carry on the
mighty foundation of this country, the very manufacturing industry that
built it. (OK - no wise guys point out my run-on sentence, please! ~grin~)

Don't get me wrong. I'm a white collar worker by day. I sit at a desk and
program COBOL for a major credit card processor. BUT - I worked 16+ hours a
day on a peanut farm, built houses (ran my own construction company for a
few years), and I'm trying to get a fledgling job shop off the ground now.

I don't really know where I'm going with this - I guess it's this. Of all
the folks that DO go to college, it seems (understandably so) that they want
to go into a lucrative white collar job. I didn't graduate from college. I
feel like (maybe I'm wrong here) that I'm the rare exception for people who
didn't graduate though. It seems that there is a mentality of being "too
good for that" so people, straight out of high school or whatever, refuse to
take those 'entry level' jobs that require you to work your ass off for VERY
little money. That's what I did on that farm - $30 a day as recently as
1995. Nobody wants to go into machining it seems, because they don't want
to LEARN a trade, they want to have a career handed to them!

<rant off>

Ya know what - I didn't mean to come here on a rant, I just get frustrated
sometimes. I've to go spend the day with a PRIME example of what I'm
describing here, and that's what made me think about it. Sorry for the
regurgitation of frustration!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Matt King

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>P.P.S. I guess this type of thing will happen in any "evolving"
>thing. Kind of like what is happening with the English language as
>more people communicate by typing on the net: "then" is used
>where "than" should be used, and the contraction of "you are"
>becomes "your" instead of the correct "you're". <rant off>

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