Ron, your experience sounds like one of mine. In the late 80's and through the 90's I was working in a plastics molding plant. Loved it. Really fun work and made good money. We did it all, build tooling, run the tools, apply paint and shielding, assemble and ship the customer a completed sub-assembly ready for their line. Then it happen, a new "Flagship" plant was built in Portland and another was built in Guadalajara Mexico. Our plant in Denver was in the top of the corporation in sales and profit and in order to support the new plant on Portland and the one in Mexico we were "consolidated". Mostly to Mexico. The high volume mostly automated processes we had in Denver meant it fit Mexico well. Turn it on and go. So my job changed from project management to putting myself out of a job and moving it to Mexico. I spent months installing brand new state of the art equipment in the Guad plant and teaching the locals how to run it. The coating line they put in was all brand new and all coatings were applied by robots. My job then was to set it up, debug it and program the robots, then teach the process of startup and shutdown and some trouble shooting. They had hired a local that was to be their programmer that supposedly had programming experience on the Fanuc robots. After I got the first one up and running he finally admitted he couldn't even start one up let alone do any programming. He stayed on, for what reason I do not know. He never came out to the floor to learn anything. Just sat in the production office all day. Anyway, after a period of flying home every few weeks and basically managing the production in Mexico I grew tired of all the travel and resigned. I was mostly living in Mexico in their economy and making the American dollar. Lived like a king. All my paychecks went right into my bank account back home and I could live there on my travel allowance easily. Talking with higher-up's in the corporation the coast savings for them were not that great. They had to keep a good sized crew of american engineering and management staff on hand to make it work and they got big paychecks plus travel back home every three weeks as promised. One guy from the U.S I was there with is still there. He loves it and is making huge money.
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