How Long Servicing Office Equipment

[Bill T.]

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.

[ukyo]

still 3 yrs.:)

[paul bristol uk]

30 years and no end in sight!

[gordie]

Hi,
Started as an apprentice typewriter mechanic in 1966 and have been repairing photocopiers since 1970.

Gordie.

[blackcat4866]

It's 20 years for me.

When I applied for my first technichian job I didn't even know what a copier was. Or at least I had not given copiers a single thought.

There were probably a dozen of us there to test. We were asked to take the Bennet Mechanical Test. 10 of us got 25% or less. 2 of us got 100%. The two of us got a call the next day "Can you start Monday?"

I was so excited that I forgot to quit the crappy line job I was working at. Sometime Tuesday the thought occurred to me that I'd better notify my previous employer. =^..^=

[kyoceradude]

28 years, 10 months and 6 days.... At my 6th dealership, for 10 years now. NOT THAT I'M COUNTING. This is all a result of not knowing what I wanted to do when I was in High School....

[BODINE]

29 long painful years

[Baphomet]

Just 8 years ... I'm still green.:D

[Mark B]

WOW!!!!!!!! I feel like a newbe. I have been doing this for 13 years.

[Incredible1]

13 years ago my best friend said Hey! if you want a job try the copier company i work for! After a few years he left the industry and I'm still here!
What a pal!
:)

[Raymondd]

20 Years...... Family owned dealership. :eek:

[gordie]

So im i the oldest swinger in town?

Gordie

[Copier]

Started in 1976 worked for the X. Any body remember the Xerox 4000. :(

[Jimbo1]

11 years and could have started 10 years earlier but didn't want to work on machines wearing a coat and tie. I'm like that.

:D

[vale24]

10 years, I've never worked anything other!:):)

[JustManuals]

So im i the oldest swinger in town?

Gordie

It's not the age, its the mileage :D

Been a printer tech for 10 years. Certified on HP, Lexmark and Xerox, also A+ Certified.
Before that I was a Plumber for 27 years, and not 'Joe the Plumber' either!
I hold a master plumbing license in Philadelphia, the State of PA. and the State of Fla.

You can ask me for all the free advice you want, I DO NOT make house calls, I barely do anything plumbing wise in my own house anymore.

Paul

[Hose1cook]

35 Years, 29 on my own. Can't wait to get out.

[turkeyfoot]

Since '83. Been with Dest OCR - Exxon Office Systems - Lanier Harris - Fujitsu Imaging Systems - Danka and Oce'.

Was certified in the Home Inspection business and just starting to work until Fannie Mae fell in the sh***er.

No calls yet......see the employment section:)

[HmkPrinterTech]

<---- 18 years

Ever since that customers HP Laserjet 2 in '90 "that had to get working!!!". Since then I was hooked. :)

[CopymanAZ]

I have been at it 30 years with the same company, just in 2 different states. Still enjoy the job :)

[leroyal]

1964 3M ThermoFax Certified.:p

[montana]

hi guys.i am 21 years old in this career.

[b003ace]

13 years ago my best friend said Hey! if you want a job try the copier company i work for! After a few years he left the industry and I'm still here!
What a pal!
:)

So, do you still talk to him? :D


I've been at this seven years.

[scully]

45 years

[smiley]

i was 13 year old when my uncle start delership.now i was 19.it was 6 year i love this field.

[Leafer999]

15 years, and 3 manufacturers.

[avold]

Start 1992 with Canon (NP 1215 was the first machine i serviced).Self trained those days.
Nice times...

[zaza]

13 years ago my best friend said Hey! if you want a job try the copier company i work for! After a few years he left the industry and I'm still here!
What a pal!
:)hi all friend technician ...l have just 10 years ago ..when l started my first work in copiers machine ....but now l try build the new free forums of technician in copiers machine ...and l have 20 technician in my group ..so in first 2009 our forum started there.......:)

[copygirl]

Been in the industry for 31 years. Gosh seems like a lifetime. Oh, it has been. LOL

[liquidtech]

Going in to my 15th year all at the same dealer. Started out working on liquid Savin copiers in our shop. Now I work on everything Savin and Konica Minolta can dish out.

[CopierTechofOmens]

Started in 2001. 18 with braces. I Sorta knew the owner. He asked me if I wanted to work on copiers. I said sure. I was washing dishes at the time. He gave me a xerox XE-80 with an error code, and the manual. I took it apart, put it back together. Thank-you mom for the Legos when I was little. Then I read the manual. The cooling fan plug was swapped with another connector. I got the job. Ever since they keep throwing me in deeper water to see if I can swim. Copiers, printers, scanner, faxes, and the occasional paper shredder. All makes, models and speeds.

[minoltaed]

14 long years.

[JVergin]

Just 2 years as of this January.

Brands I work on include:

Panasonic
Savin
Risograph
Duplo

:rolleyes:

[8050]

26 years. 23 with Konica Minolta direct. Left because I didn't like management direction of where company was going and what they were doing.

[mmechura]

23 years and counting

I have an attention span longer than

[Zoren]

funny to think..... i just remembered someone said b4, you should change your machine name to "U-Fix copier" coz of frequent breakdown at the time...... i'm sure you know w/c copier brand is this now....:)

[montana]

it is about 22 years .since 1987.
i wish good luck for all:)

[copymon]

26 years, hopefully only 10 more to go...

[Lea@ABM]

24 years. First training course was a Minolta EP300/RE when I was just 16! Self employed for 13 years since.:cool:

[ZOOTECH]

15 years with copiers/printers/faxes. Since 1965 if you count communication control units, crts/kbds, PCs, and printers of all sorts.

[countrytech]

Commenced as a typewriter mechanic in 1965, straight out of school, and started on copiers in the early 70's

[Si@danwood]

23 years!!!!!:confused::confused::(

[imaginemoko]

4 years and still counting...

[digital copier resources]

Been doing this since 1995 minus 3 years for a broken neck
What is wrong with me?

[Herrmann]

23 Years now, and (feel free to call me a mad man:p ) i still like my job

Every day a new challenge... who of a boring clerk can say this about his job? :p

[cboucher]

13 long, insufferable years until I was laid off. Ended up getting a much better job in IT, so I can't complain. I still work on printers and MFPs as a part of my IT job though. Never really minded working on copiers, it was the shady business practices of the dealership and the occasional customers who treated me like I was the janitor that made the job suck. I guess driving all day kinda sucked, too.

[randula7]

I have been doing this for 13 years. Start in Sri Lanka with Canon.Year 2000 to 2003 work with all brand in Saudi Arabia. Now working with Kyocera and Ricoh since 2006 in West Africa.

[KenB]

Just hit 30 years in February, and still going strong.

It looks like I fell woefully short on my plan to retire by age 50. :rolleyes:

It's just amazing to see how much and how quickly this industry changes - almost daily.

[OJ the Bodge]

Started in 1988, there were no middle aged or old engineers then.

[uber]

well iam up to 23 years, some days it seems like 53,lol :eek: