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Re: What to do? Where to go?
Most every tech I know ends up back in this business again.
Technicians are a strange lot. They need to work mostly unsupervised. They need frequent changes of scenery. They're independent, and have a very short attention span.
As long as you continue to learn new skills, the pay will eventually catch up to you. If you love this job, do yourself a favor, STAY.
Just a few thoughts from ...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.
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Re: What to do? Where to go?
As far as I know no technicians ever got rich fixing copiers for a dealership or copier service company, etc... The key is being able to apply the knowledge you gain working on copiers to another field. IT is a good transition, a lot of techs go that route. I didn't really start making decent money until I got out of field service and into IT. I still work on copiers and printers as part of my IT responsibilities, but for a software company as opposed to a copier dealership. The pay is better, the working conditions are infinitely better, and the higher-ups actually treat me like a valued member of the team instead of the "necessary evil" I was treated like back in my field tech days.But I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard... to be the Shepherd.
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Re: What to do? Where to go?
Move to Canada!!! Money is good cost of living is cheaper than the UKComment
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But winters are cold. I've heard........Move to Canada!!! Money is good cost of living is cheaper than the UK
Hans" Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0 "
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It's just like any other profession. The longer you do it the more pay you can command. You say you have been working in this field for four years. I'm sure your skills are pretty good but four years is not long at all in ANY profession. If you stick to it you will make more and more as the years go by. I started out at 8.00 dollars an hour is 1986. It is now 2013 and I make 28.00 per hour, and that's just for
a field technician. I do all the I.T. work and the field work. Stay at it if you like it, if you don't like it, GET OUT NOW.Comment
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