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    Fancy moving

    Hi
    I fancy a change, I have always wanted to go to the states and live, Although I have never been haha.

    Whats it like working as a field service engineer out there? I work on Xerox devices over here and it's easy to get about, I should imagine it's a nitemare over in the states.

    I am going to do the Route 66 bike tour next year really looking forward to that.

    Im sick of the RAIN here!!

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    Re: Fancy moving

    It's a big country. Depending on where your at, you could experience single lane dirt roads and no traffic, to 8 lane wide highways crawling along at speeds that cannot be measured on a speedometer. It could be 21C in the winter and 43C in the summer, or -23C in the winter and 21C in the summer. It could rain every day, or rain almost never. What did you have in mind? I might be able to make a recommendation. =^..^=
    If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
    1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
    2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
    3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
    4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

    blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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    Your territory could be as large as over 100 miles across in all direction or as small as a 30+ floor office building where you use the elevator to go from one call to another. You may have to work on one model line or you might work for a company that sell one line but services what ever someone calls to look at.

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    Re: Fancy moving

    Personally, I'd recommend Cincinnati. You get almost extremes of all weather, almost extremes of all traffic.

    Although, you don't see too many copier guys making enough money to be able to just take off on a route 66 tour... you'd have to have some serious vaca time stored up, wouldn't you?

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    Re: Fancy moving

    If you did come here, one thing for sure you'd have to adjust to is the lack of vacation time compared to what you probably have now.
    I know I should be ashamed of myself. Strangely though, I am not.

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    Re: Fancy moving

    What is the vacation time as a tech?

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    Re: Fancy moving

    Quote Originally Posted by ss12 View Post
    What is the vacation time as a tech?
    The most I've ever gotten in any job was 2 weeks.
    I know I should be ashamed of myself. Strangely though, I am not.

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    Re: Fancy moving

    Wow it's at least 20 days in the uk,more with length of service as well as the public holidays

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    Quote Originally Posted by ss12 View Post
    Wow it's at least 20 days in the uk,more with length of service as well as the public holidays
    Next year I go to 3 weeks. That's after 10 years with the company.
    I know I should be ashamed of myself. Strangely though, I am not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ss12 View Post
    What is the vacation time as a tech?
    Vacation? What vacation. When you work for a small company you get a day here and a day there. Last year my boss was going to give me the last week of the year off. Then on the Saturday after Christmas he called and asked me to come in on Monday. Our other senior tech had gotten fired. He did however pay me for my time.

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