How Long Servicing Office Equipment

[Robert Sveinson]

How Long Servicing Office Equipment.

I started servicing office equipment in May of 1960 ( before most of you
were born, I bet).
The job was with Addressograph-Multigraph servicing their line
of small offset printing presses. Nice solid gear that worked very well.
Factory training came about early in 1961.
7 weeks in Cleveland/Euclid Ohio.

Robert

[agudmove]

23 years. 10 in Manchester & 13 so far in Ireland.

[bejoyjohn]

16 years and still no end in sight

When I first joined a copier company my then senior told me son try something else otherwise the grandson of your present client will tell you one day "oh my grandpa used to like you " Well thats happening now

[ddude]

Sniffing toner since 1980 (well, back then it was liquid toner, we would just absorb it through our skin) I just can't get copiers out of my system!!!I long for the smell of ozone coming off of a humming main corona unit.......nothing quite like that.

[CopymanAZ]

31 years and 10 to go

[mladner]

it's been a while

20 years now first trained on 3M 516 COPIER AND 3M 5000 CAMERA. A+ , NET+ AND SECURITY + CERTIFIED the connectivity world makes the job interesting ; and even fun when prove to some of the IT PEOPLE that it is their problem

[Peter Montgomery]

...Man, There's Millions of Dollars Worth of Knowledge On This Post Alone...

I'm up to about 11 years now.

I'm in the middle of turning my Independent Xerox Repair/Service business into a home based business using the internet.

If your interested in doing this send me a personal message or post here and I'll tell you how.

[safos]

only ten years.

[mikadonovan]

22 years with God only knows how many to go. I still have 20 years to retirement.

[bigredone]

got 12 years in,started doing IT work on the side for a small company.got sucker in to become a tech.trained on about 10 different brands an counting,printers of all size and shapes,coin ops,faxes,2 data management systems seems like it goes on,on,on and on...still love the jobs and love to hear "thank god you are here."

[CCS]

turning that screwdriver 22 years now...

[Tom]

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

[JimHegs]

We have all posted what we work on, what we like and dont like to work on lets see numbers of years we have been doing it. Im at 25 years.

Since 1992

[rickg]

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

[Electrictoner]

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