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Originally Posted by Geoff Bourquin
Tom
You're not making me feel any better.
But you're probably right.
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I quit TV repair about 5 years ago, spent a couple years in the test lab at a local electronics manufacturer, hated the confinement and repetition although the pay was OK. I am now working at a large ranch with a horse hospital, citrus and avocado orchards, and all the machinery that goes with it as mechanical tech. Much happier, no rude Iranian customers with stop-payment checks, no laughter from parts suppliers when I try to order something for a 5-year-old TV, no headaches from trying to read an RCA schematic spread out over 3,000 pages when it should have been printed on one, no California Enviro-Gestapo telling me I am going to prison if I possess solder or tuner cleaner or if I dare throw a TV in the trash, no driving 30 miles to a housecall only to find that the customer forgot me and went to the beach, no more being climbed on by undisciplined toddlers while the parents blow tobacco smoke in my face, no more pounding on my door at 6:00 Superbowl Sunday morning with an "emergency repair for a friend in need", I could overload the server with more.
With that said, I did enjoy the TV repair business in earlier times. But since the big business boom at the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, which was the last gasp for profitability in the TV repair business here, it was all down hill.
Horse exercise equipment basic electrical problems, Diesel tractors, irrigation pumps, and riding a quad runner through the avocado orchard all day looking for leaky hoses is much more fun and diverse! I'm happy now
Charles