Of all the trades you could have chosen you chose this one? Well since you're brain isn't functioning as it should let me help you out. If you insist on staying in this field...learn both CNC Lathes and Mills. Not just one or the other. You'll be more valuable that way. Mills are the tougher of the two to master, unless you are running opposing spindle lathes with live tooling such as a Nakamura-Tome(this machine eats machinist for breakfast if they are not careful).
So in my opinion learn both.
Find a good production shop at first - with both lathes and mills. Learn the basics of production. Learn your way around a shop. Then after you feel comfortable around a shop...like basic set-up, programming, trouble shooting, fixturing, then go for proto-typing work. This is way more demanding then production and it'll definitely challenge you. |