turning that screwdriver 22 years now...
1-3 Years
3-6 Years
6-10 Years
10-15 Years
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30 + Years
turning that screwdriver 22 years now...
Wow, mladner, I'm also at 20 years & also first trained on the 3m 516. I remember it was the first machine with Sensitron (auto exp.) & it had this funny looking grey developer
23 years in aug 2010. was told in 1988 to start looking for a new job cause the paperless world was coming soon. still waiting for that to happen
I find this poll of great interest for number crunchers. look at the low numbers of newbies
I rarely come across anyone servicing below 30 y.o. of are anywhere.....most people I know are like the poll shows near retirement in next 5-15 years The part that suck is companies are going to have to pay more for people in this job in the future but We wont see that kind of $$ now. no matter how good they make machines they will always break.
Billy
I find this poll of great interest for number crunchers. look at the low numbers of newbies
I rarely come across anyone servicing below 30 y.o. of are anywhere.....most people I know are like the poll shows near retirement in next 5-15 years The part that suck is companies are going to have to pay more for people in this job in the future but We wont see that kind of $$ now. no matter how good they make machines they will always break.
Billy
Don't count on that-most of the OEMs are gearing up on assembly -replacement parts, customers can do the PMs, if a machine is a problem it will be cycled out of the office, replaced with a comparable model. Just like Television repair, our job of copier repair is quickly becoming a 'replace-instead-of-repair' type of industry.......companies are going to have to pay more for people in this job in the future but We wont see that kind of $$ now.
Started out in the industry repairing IBM Selectric Typewriters back in the late 80s.
Started late 1975, working on both manual and electric typewriters, adding machines, calculators, duplicators , etc.
Then into shredders, colators, dot-matrix printers, copiers, computers, electronic calculators, etc.
Remington, Olympia, IBM, Olivette, Hermes ( found a set of diodes a few years ago and laughed as I threw them away ), Corona, Smith Corona, Gestetner, Standard, Apeco, Toshiba, Copy Stat, Mita, Cannon. Really too many to talk about.
Now working only on Kyocera's.
BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO RETIRING ONE DAY. If I live long enough that is.
I hope all you tech's have a great day...it doesn't matter how long you have been doing this, it only matters that you care enough to do a good job.
"The Serenity Prayer" . . .
God grant me the serenity to accept stupid people , the courage to not waste my time and energy on them , and the wisdom to know that I cannot fix STUPID .
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