New job
 

I was hunting a particular job for weeks, close to my town, and i got it!

So from thursday i will be the cad-designer at a company that produces anti-vandalism street furniture and light systems for tunnels etc.

I'm excited but having been unemployed for some time makes it just the more exciting, as i will have to find out how my wrecked wrist will hold out:06:


Neal and staff, as soon as i get my first paycheck i will donate some money to subsim, i spend alot of time here and i have alot of fun, i learned alot and i love coming here!

Congrats! :up: CAD is pretty fun. :yep:

Working is good. :yeah: Congrats!:woot:

Congrats !

If you need any advice on autocad just ask I have like 12 years experience with it.

Tunnel lighting huh? Mind if I ask the company name?

See Im a consulting electrical engineer and like to keep up on this sort of thing.

Oh and the architect might be interested in the vandal stuff as well :salute:

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I'm also looking for a new job. I have been approached by 3 different agencies who all wanted to represent me for the same position at the same company after seeing my CV online. Guess that must be a good sign.

Keep your fingers crossed for me to get an interview and the job as Ihave gone as far as I can at my current work.

I'm also a draughtsman, emphasis in the man part.

Kloef you will have fun. Hopefully I'll be moving on from AutoCAD to Solidworks.

Congrats, Kloef.

Good luck to you, Xabba

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Thanks guys, really appriciate it!

Thanks, i will mainly work with Inventor as they want to convert all autocad designs to a 3d environment, do you use Inventor?

Ever since i use Inventor Autocad became somewhat obsolete, but its still great for scetching on the fly together with guys from the shop!

Tommorow is D-day for me:arrgh!:

Congrats on the new job, hopefully will find something for myself soon aswell. Been unemployed since January.

Nope sorry never heard of it in fact. 90% of what I do is 2D.

Yay, CADmonkeys unite!

Good to hear someone can still get a job as a draughtsman... our construction industry has been dead since the end of 2008!

AutoCAD is great software, but a friend of mine is suggesting I have a go a learning Revit.

After five or six years experience in working in several different drawing offices, ranging from refrigeration engineering/design (with quite a lot of responsibility for multiple projects as CADmonkey), to monkey-see-monkey-do at a firm who designed and installed Fire-alarm systems and programming the alarm system software database for a complete new build in London, to temping for a few weeks at an engineering firm, drawing stuff for fabrication that I'd never laid eyes upon before, finding any job doing CAD within a realistic distance to where I live is impossible. :x

I'm going to stop now before I begin to hijack this thread with an (un)employment rant :arrgh!:

Good show Kloef, I hope you get along well with your new job :up:

Well building anti-vandalism stuff is very good business in these times, the more people misbehave the more stuff we need to build!

It was a great first day, started with waiting for my pc to arrive and being installed, then i had alot of fun installing Inventor and all the other software..

Couple of hours later i allready had drawn some of their products and tommorow i will start working on an assembly, not bad i think since i used version 2010 for the first time..finally a ribbon!

As far as the people, they seem to be nice and the atmosphere seems pretty relaxed, but they work hard..

But thats the first day, well see how it goes i have alot of motivation to really make something out of this:o, i used to be different its scary:rotfl2:

Its good to work again:arrgh!:

Things will get better over time and there will be plenty of work in the future, cherish it while it lasts;)

Being a draughtsman is fun. Been doing it myself for the past 2.5 years. Enjoy my work on Melbourne's railway network. Signalling and level crossings mainly atm.