How Long Servicing Office Equipment

**tsbservice** · 01-04-2023

The sound of silence and waiting to meet others to share/exchange your experiences/quests, what a great days!

**techsxge** · 01-05-2023

Originally Posted by tsbservice

The sound of silence and waiting to meet others to share/exchange your experiences/quests, what a great days!

Damn. Sounds chill. I want to have that now!!!

**techsxge** · 01-05-2023

Originally Posted by subaro

Twenty yrs or so. As a road tech, it has it's good and bad side. Traffic, nasty machines, tight spaces, awkward customers, ect. What I hated the most was the boot up time of the machines back then, especially when you had to reboot multiple times to see outcomes when you fixed a problem . The tie thing also irked me, as my boss was very strict on that. The other side was , you get to know your city well and meet different people, and see the girls, yes those secretaries that you want to go back and do service calls there.
I spent most of the time though as a shop tech, fixing and troubleshooting like for like and things the field techs did not have the time to spend on. I liked those challenges and as time went on the machines boot time is very fast now, which I am contended with. I have my own space, tools which I do not loose and youtube, which I get to see a variety of things that I choose , all while working on machines.
Now, the job has gotten much easier with better machine performance and more tools to find and troubleshoot problems. Every tech has to develop his own style and way of getting the job done. some take shortcuts that work and some get burn. When you can solve most of the common problems easily, then your day can become a litter harder to past the time. With the advent of google and youtube, even tough problems can be narrow down fairly quick.

we still have the tie thing in our company and ffs i just hate it... We just cant get our Boss to turn the policy over...

**Qball** · 05-12-2023

After 28 years in this industry. 20 as a tech, 8 as help desk and software support for FMAudit and MPS Monitor, today is my last day. This forum has been an invaluable resource for me over the years.
I’m going to work in the automotive aftermarket for a classic car restoration shop. Quite a change. I’ve been a car guy my whole life and I couldn’t pass up this opportunity.

I wish all of you all the best.

**blackcat4866** · 05-12-2023

Congratulations on breaking free of the copier industries. Must of us are lifers.

I'm sure that you'll be successful in your new career. =^..^=

**digicor** · 05-13-2023

congratulations! doing what u love is never work
everytime I try to get out, something pulls me back in
I guess I love to hate it...lol
cheers to you and your new career

**Larhal** · 09-01-2023

Since 1982, 41 years and still going. But not for long......

**justanotherhack** · 10-12-2023

First job was electric shavers, back when people fixed things instead of just throwing them away. Then 8 years on nav systems for Phantom fighter jets. Unfortunately, vacuum tube tech didn't translate well into the civilian sector, so I went looking for anything electromechanical. This seemed like a pretty good fit. That was... hmmm... 34 years ago I think? Wow. What I didn't realize was how much hand-holding would be involved ("No you are NOT crazy, it is the machine", that sort of thing). Biggest challenge now is getting to and from work, traffic around here has really skyrocketed since the end of covid, especially in the last 4 months.

**anothertech** · 10-19-2023

Originally Posted by justanotherhack

First job was electric shavers, back when people fixed things instead of just throwing them away. Then 8 years on nav systems for Phantom fighter jets. Unfortunately, vacuum tube tech didn't translate well into the civilian sector, so I went looking for anything electromechanical. This seemed like a pretty good fit. That was... hmmm... 34 years ago I think? Wow. What I didn't realize was how much hand-holding would be involved ("No you are NOT crazy, it is the machine", that sort of thing). Biggest challenge now is getting to and from work, traffic around here has really skyrocketed since the end of covid, especially in the last 4 months.

I was an navy AT in the 80's, worked on T-2C's and then E-2C's. Then when I got out I took the copier tech job till I could find something else. That was 1984, still fixing copiers to this day.