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Alex Nichols
Age: 23
Title: Level 2 Operator,
training to be a Level 1
Set up Operator by next
year
Company: C&M
Machine Products
Location: Hudson
Residence: Nashua
Education: Florida
Youth Challenge
Academy graduate 2012
Salary: $16/$17 per
hour, works 55 hours per
week
Quotable: I'm very
mature for my age.
I like working, I like
volunteering, I like
helping people, and I
like motivating people to
want to do better.
"It is so clean," she says. "I couldn't believe how
clean it was when I first started working here."
Ben Karjala, 23, a brewer at 603 Brewing in
Londonderry, says one of the biggest misconceptions
about manufacturing is the notion that the work is
boring and monotonous. Karjala started out as a part
stacker in his uncle's manufacturing company in
Chester before discovering his love of beer making.
"Not every manufacturer is sitting on an assembly
line and screwing one part into another part," he says.
"There are so many different aspects of manufactur-
ing. And don't get me wrong, there are some jobs like
that, but you can definitely find your niche. I found
mine basically in artisanal manufacturing."
Ryan Chartier, 22, a manufacturing engineer with
Ametek/Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions in Milford,
says the majority of his job is creative thinking and
problem solving.
"The first thing they teach you is how to think out-
side the box," Chartier says. Chartier ended up getting
a manufacturing job to help pay his way through
school and discovered it was a perfect fit for him.
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