<font color="blue"> Now I probably pick up a soldering iron 4 times a year </font>
That's about 2X as much as me.
I went to school back in the early 80's for TV and radio repair and industrial electronics... right about the time the TVs were phasing out individual components for circuit boards. I was making more money pumping gas at the airport than any jobs were paying in TV repair at that time. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif However, I got in with my current employer working the industrial side of my degrees. I did pretty well, so they asked me to work on these newfangled comuters. Computers were considered machines back then, so it was a natural. Lots of boards, power supplies and motors to troubleshoot. That's where I'm still at, although I've migrated to the operations side of the computers. Repairing them is just about unheard of. We just order a board and swap it out. The biggest hands-on job I've had to do so far this year was last week. Someone touched an Okidata printer, got a static shock and all the printer power was lost. I had to open it up and change a fuse... OOOOoooo, now that's troubleshooting! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
