How Long Servicing Office Equipment

[westpest]

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I replied to this thread last year and said that I was starting my 50th year. Well, this is now my 51st year, and still going strong.

Wow,I thought I was doing well in my 41st year all on Savin/Nashua/Ricoh. I once owned the largest Ricoh franchise in the world but only in area not machine population.
Almost 73 so I won't be beating your record
Congratulations.

[Bucky]

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Wow,I thought I was doing well in my 41st year all on Savin/Nashua/Ricoh. I once owned the largest Ricoh franchise in the world but only in area, not machine population.
Almost 73 so I won't be beating your record
Congratulations.

You and I followed the same path. I started with Xerox in 1968, then went Independent in 1983. Became a Pansonic dearer in 1984. Sold the business for health reasons in 1996. Too much presssure on the old blood pressure. Retired for 4 months. Got bored! Went to work for a Canon Micrographic and copier dealer in late 1996. It was supposed to be part time, but soon went full time. Left Canon and went to work for a lanier/ricoh dealer in 2002. They made me an offer I could not refuse. Been with them every since. Oh, and I'll be 73 in December. Still riding Quads in the desert, camping when I can, and fishing now and then. The knees and back are still in great shape, thanks to a weekly round of golf. Hope it last!

[westpest]

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You and I followed the same path. I started with Xerox in 1968, then went Independent in 1983. Became a Pansonic dearer in 1984. Sold the business for health reasons in 1996. Too much presssure on the old blood pressure. Retired for 4 months. Got bored! Went to work for a Canon Micrographic and copier dealer in late 1996. It was supposed to be part time, but soon went full time. Left Canon and went to work for a lanier/ricoh dealer in 2002. They made me an offer I could not refuse. Been with them every since. Oh, and I'll be 73 in December. Still riding Quads in the desert, camping when I can, and fishing now and then. The knees and back are still in great shape, thanks to a weekly round of golf. Hope it last!

I sold my business 14 years ago and retired...for about two weeks and started working for the guy I sold it to. Fit as a fiddle but skeleton is letting me down.So far about 24 surgical procedures all on joints including a knee and shoulder reconstruction and 15 procedures on both hands. and I can still use a screwdriver.

But if you rest you rust...

[digicor]

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I was delivering food at a cafe next to a copier guy's shop, they came in all the time, one day i was chatting and the guy said to me , can you come over and do something for me after work, i said sure, i had never even opened up a copier in my life,i put something back together for him then he asked if i could go somewhere and fix something after work, i did, i spent the next 7 years working for that guy! and now i have my own practice .... LOL
13 years, seems like yesterday

[mike_hartung]

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40 Years same company come next February. Started 02/09/1979. Was introduced to the Savin 770 and 780. I have been to over 25 out of state Training trips some 2 weeks most 1 week. What a life. I plan to retire on my 45th anniversary.

[surecopy]

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28 years

[bsm2]

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Since 1980 worked for one company 24 years but new ownership was enough for me to leave. Work at the two biggest copier companies in the world Xerox and than a company that first hired me Dex Imaging.
Now semi retired

[pudgi300]

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44 years. Still working. Seems like the better job you do or save money for print shops or dealers they screw you. About ready to work for Home Depot and not have to worry about these buttholes.

[tcypy1961]

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Started in 1984 working for an individual who was what I thought pure magic. When copiers went digital he stayed analog. Should have left but don't like change. Now running the business since 2006 and still wishing I'd left to get more experience. Anybody want to move to NW FL and buy my business???

[srvctec]

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In my 30th year at the same place I started at in 1988. Legacy Minolta, now Konica Minolta is all we service.

[larweedad]

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25 and still going.

[timelord7]

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11 years, i stopped now plan to continue again.

[Hoosierdaddy]

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Started in May of 1988.
Its the best and worst job I have ever had !!

['Tomas]

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20 years I started in August 1998.

[gpoffmachs]

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