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Read the community guidelinesThe starting pay is really high—very high. For new hires, after completing a year, the starting pay increases by around 10,000. With just some overtime, earning over 60,000 is no problem.
The boss is very nice, and the team leader is also very nice...
The work is genuinely monotonous and simple. Basically, anyone who has worked in an industrial setting is practically an old friend of the angle grinder and grinding machine.
Anyone who knows how to use these two machines can get up to speed right away.
There’s no denying the pay is high, but the drawback is that you’re trading your lungs for money.
The foundry has no exhaust ventilation at all. Simply put, even without overtime, you spend eight hours constantly inhaling dust.
(The main component is sand containing more than 70% free silica.)
Eventually, the people working there will develop silicosis or lung cancer. Even if you have money, you won’t be able to spend it...
Regular masks and N95s are absolutely useless...
If you really want to do this job, you can only buy your own dust mask resembling a military-grade gas mask that can filter out more than 99% of particles...
I had only worked there for two days. I’m a young person in my twenties who wore an N95-level mask and had never had allergies in my life.
On the morning of my second day at work, I started having an allergic reaction after two hours and endured it until the end of my shift.
I had no other symptoms—just extremely labored breathing, along with difficulty swallowing.
It felt as if my windpipe had become inflamed, changing from the size of a bubble-tea straw to that of a Yakult straw....
I had to inhale with 30% more force than usual just to get enough air...
It took me three days of rest to recover.
It’s also dirty—extremely dirty, unbelievably dirty.
Before entering the house, take off all your clothes and go straight to wash them, to keep sand and dust from getting inside.
Then you have to take two showers in a row to get clean...
The noise can be dealt with by wearing earplugs; once you put them on, it’s actually tolerable.
But most of the people inside are probably hard of hearing by now....
I wore earplugs from my very first day, both to avoid dirt and to protect against the noise.
Of all the drawbacks above, the only irreversible one is the lung problem.
Everything else can be handled with tools or remedied afterward.
To put it bluntly, I wouldn’t do this even for nearly 100,000 a month...
I can only advise you: money is important, sure, but if you don’t live long enough to spend it,
what’s the point?