1.) Go find a temp agency, apply to get some job, any job, in a fabrication shop or machine shop.

2.) Show up every day mostly sober, even if you’re sweeping the floor or running a grinder.

3.) Take an interest in thr equipment. Learn about it. Learn how to use calipers and a tape measure.

4.) Eventually they will train you on a machine. Maybe a mill, maybe a lathe, maybe a plasma cutter or brake or laser. Learn how to run it, learn how to run some of the other machines.

5.) Keep learning and never want for a job again.