The big money is both Gov. & Industrial jobs, at least at my job.
Save yourself some time, forget automotive (unless you get lucky & find a niche).
If I had only one cat. to pick from it would be Industrial jobs, most of them will pay a high price for good work. Automotive is usally low dollar high quanity jobs (again unless you get lucky & find a niche market).
A little note about other companies under bidding you. We had this 1 company that kept (non-stop) trying to low ball us on price, hell it got down to almost the cost of material, they kept on with threats of taking the job someplace else, after about a year of this we finally told them they can have the job back (see ya!). Heck it's not like we lost money, If anything it freed up a dedicated screw machine to run other jobs on. Anyway, about a year after they pulled the job from us, they called back saying they really needed us to run that same ole job that they pulled from us, here is the funny part, when we said ok, but It will cost more than when we ran that very first part some 2 years ago (take it or leave type of thing.
). What had happend was the new supplier they ran to, that underbid us, pretty much ran crappy parts, hey you get what you pay for.
My point is, run the very best parts you can, & make quality number one, If they ever leave you, chances are they will be back...
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