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Someone will do it. 100%
Why not you?
Take the job, do a mediocre job good enough not to get fired, bad enough to limit their take, keep searching for better work. If you find anything livable, take it.
Don't kill yourself over abstaining from what other people are going to do, but do your best to exit the space asap.
Hell, start a website and take side work, perhaps?
Get an old Power Wheels car, remake the gearbox out of something durable, and market it to the Power Wheels overclockers.
Offer replacement parts for older 3d printers, most of the 3d files are available and 99% of the work is knowing how to get your machine to make them.
Light Metal iphone cases with Cthulhu/F1/Star Trek/Star Wars relief cut into the back.
Search out cosplay, replica items if you have weathering skills.
Start a youtube machining channel with videos of you doing all that shit. Youtube will pay you to have people watch it and people will buy the items off you. Also post them to TT and IG.
Just going to point out that putting their expertise on youtube is pretty much the same end route. Except now google can just train on it from there.
A YouTube video of someone cutting chips on a CNC does absolutely nothing for training. They can't just watch the mill cut without precise measurements. What they need is what he knows about machining. They're interested in him taking in a spec, building it in CAD, generating a program from it, why he chooses what he chooses, speeds, angles, what's possible, what's not possible. None of this is required for his own YouTube video. Clean up the mill, get the lights good, and just let people watch it fly.
He's not putting his expertise into Youtube, he's just showing you the piece being made, jump cuts around working with the model. Hell, showing failures. There's a damned strong following for speechless videos of machinists/engineers doing work.
The real upside: say he's making phone cases, keychains, parts; people will go to his site and buy that shit. He doesn't have to give the baby away with the bathwater.
Watching someone is very different from learning, trying it myself ,failing and knowing why something works, or didn't work.
Someone watching lots of porn doesn't automatically mean he is good in bed.