Please come and help the younger generation.

First of all, making sure your desire for mold design is a good motivation. 19 boys have a good prospect. If you are so skilled in programming machining center now, I think you should stick to it for a few more years. After that, you have several options: 1 Job-hopping to a factory run by a professional machining center and re-exercising; If you really feel that you have the conditions and the ability to open a company or processing shop independently, this is a very good entrepreneurial choice.

The work of machining center, practice and mold design are two jobs, so you need to judge what you like best. If you are sure that you are still young to learn design, it will be of great help to your future design to learn mold operation, maintain production and accumulate experience of insufficient design from the grass-roots factory.

Because you can operate SW, the mold design you can get involved in is generally casting (maybe you are doing it now, I am not familiar with it) and injection mold. I am familiar with the injection mold, and the precision injection mold is developing well at present.

Actually, I don't recommend going to those training schools. It is really unrealistic to learn the experience and skills that can only be learned in a few years at school in two or three months. What's more, the school is still based on theory and the actual factory experience is relatively poor. I will stick to my point of view, while I am young, decide what kind of mold design you want to learn (three-dimensional design), learn only one or only one, find a company specializing in this kind of mold to go to the site, and begin to learn how to know the mold, mold principle and maintenance production experience. This is all from scratch, because it is completely different from your previous works. When you feel almost finished, apply to the design department, or jump ship to a company that can hire you as a design apprentice. Take your time.

Young and promising, choose carefully. After learning mold design, your previous experience in operating programming will help you make the parts you design more suitable for processing, that is, the design is more reasonable. Doing the work before designing is tantamount to giving up.