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I’m trying to decide whether to pursue a new career in either advanced manufacturing, beginning to learn cad/cam/cnc or hvac… I know two very different paths but I have the opportunity to receive some free training at a local vocational school (200hrs). How do those of you who are in entry level or been there like cad/cam work and how was it to advance your career. Located in Massachusetts. Thanks in advance!
HVAC is going to pay you more from the beginning, assuming you get valid certs and licenses.
But CAD/CAM is going to be more indoors-office type work.
To, actually get rich from either, 10-15 years after you've been in either you will need to start your own business or takeover an existing business from someone who's retiring and his/her kids don't want to takeover. For that HVAC is going to be far more cheaper as starting a machining shop, especially high precision shop is bonkers expensive with equipment alone going to cost several million dollars.
My vote goes for HVAC, especially if you get into industrial and commercial HVAC design, manufacture, maintenance & service contracts.
The place I work at, we spend about $85k annually in HVAC service and maintenance contracts. Our service provider has about 20 contracts in our area, and all of them are bigger than ours. About $120k each.
I vote for HVAC.
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You're welcome. Of course stuff also depends on how old you are (late 30s?, you might prefer cad/cam). It's not that it is difficult to make money in CAD/CAM/machining, but it's more like being an artist versus HVAC beingore like engineers.
You have a few superstar artists making hundreds of millions while 95% go hungry, while you don't have engineers making hundreds of millions, but most will make $100k a couple years into their careers.