"Where have all the CAD jobs gone??"

There should be a new Peter Paul and Mary song :

"Where have all the CAD jobs gone??"

Been trying everywhere. Nothing. Not even part-time. How do you find a CAD
"in" for manufacturing when you don't know what kind of CAD they use.

Kevin Murray
Mt. Holly, NC

 

I always found my jobs by doing cold calls, call one day and ask what
the company does and who the owner is, ask who the CAD manager is.

do this for several places one day and call back 2 or 3 days later and
seek work.

 

Apparently Toronto!

 

New Zealand?

 

They have all gone to Bangumdesh and India for about
$2.50 per hour.


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I can't speak for manufacturers, but the construction industry here is
revving past the redline for some time.
Anybody who can draw can get a job....for now.

 

Another point I have seen is the number of normal drawings dropping. What I
mean is :

1 P&ID drawing would spawn 15 to 30 loops, now employers say they just want
to live with only the P&ID.

I have seen details on Architectural drawings called our to drawings that
don't exist because they cut costs and didn't make them.

On 1 job they put the ceiling layout, lighting layout and floor tile layout
all on one print to supposedly save.

Employers taking these actions have hurt jobs

K Murray

 

Not exactly. Company A sees that it can build it cheaper and make more
profits. Company A may not even be an American company. Company B who
manufactured in the US sees no way to compete with A's prices, so it closes
down its US plant and has product produced on foreign soil. It is a global
economy and The US can only blame itself. The average US consumer wants to
pay bottom dollar for products, want $20+ dollar an hour salary. We (US
citizen) want to live like kings with our $25K+ average cars and amenity
filled houses. $20+ dollar union plant jobs don't cut it anymore.

Enjoy it while it lasts, the glory days are nearly over.
-S

 

don't know about the rest of you but Alberta canada is booming.
i know i know. canada sucks. yess its cold, yes the dollar is worth
less, etc etc,

hwever if you want to work, and work with good benifts northern alberta
is the shits. why?

simply because we have such a massive oil industry up hear (some are
saying its gonna come in at second only to AUDI arabia) and that
requires support services to keep it running. stores, hotels, shops,
offices, housing.

the construction industry for example in Grande Prairie (shout out to my
peeps) is insane. i work for an engineering design company where we do
commercial and industrial design. we have been busy for the past decade.
however i only started 3 years ago so i can't actually talk from
experiance. but i noticed that in jan of 2004 things started to go
really nutz, and its been like that since then. no stopping. not even a
bit. spring summer fall and winter they are building like mother
fcukers, spring summer fall and winter they want they're designs 6
months ago. there is no slowing down in the design feild up hear.

we are booked atleast 6 months in the future with projects that people want.

so.. don't be afraid to look up north. if your a youngin you won't
regred it.


Flame me please! i love it.

rock on my hacker beiotches (Hommage to RAMZI + K.Rose)

awb

 

Sounds similar to New Zealand except it's only cold up the mountains and
the dollars doing OK.

So..don't be afraid to look down south either...wer'e crying out for
skilled immigrants.

 

Sounds similar to New Zealand except it's only cold up the mountains and

what kind of CAD people are needed in NZ?

What abt Inventor users?

 

No he doesn't !!

 

hey NZ might be alright..

whats the CND $$ wage equivilant?

 

Apparently I have a better clue than you. I can name dozens of cases where a
company ceased production and moved manufacturing to China or some other
country due to the high costs of labor.

 

Better yet, how about the ever rising excessive amount of
corporate greed? Got to allow for their excessively exuberant
stock options, right? More for American corporate greed by
exporting our jobs. Hope all the Chinese and India consumers are
going to buy lots of American manufactured goods, yeah right!
All the money for corporate and screw the real legitimate
American working people out of their way of life and income. Got
to support those Communists, since they were our enemy for
soooo..... long. America is so screwed. Congratulations to the
pigs who pulled this off!

 

All the money for corporate and screw the real legitimate

Amen brother!