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Originally Posted by jluetjen
Hey!!! That's what I do (although in a different industry). The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence, but being in the manufacturing services is no walk in the park. Try dealing with disorganized customers, customers with non-manufacturable products, not to mention rising raw material prices while providing what is economically speaking a commodity service and margins in the single digits, and then getting squeezed or dropped with no warning for the sake of a one or two percent in price -- by customers who generally are making 10%-50% in margin. All of this is going on while you're trying to get pay-back on significant capital investments.
To be honest, the manufacturing services industries is kind of like running an airline. You buy a whole bunch of airliners for 10's of millions of dollars, and then you try to get enough people to buy seats at the going market rate to pay off the investment in planes. It's not an industry for the feign of heart, but that's true of most non-government jobs.
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quick OT while I gobble down lunch and read resumes. I mean services like consulting, John. Made stupid money doing essentially marketing consulting, easiest money ever made, most money I've ever made. LT is awesome and we're expanding faster than I can keep up, but garment mfg. is the hardest thing I've ever done. The pay off is there, just so many headaches along the way. Consulting, no headaches, at least what I was doing. back to work!