"Matt Stawicki" wrote in message
news On 18 Mar 2009 12:54:39 GMT, Curly Surmudgeon
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:30:22 -0800, Matt Stawicki wrote:

He gets $75/hr for machine tool service. That's not
a full time, 40 hr/week job. Some weeks are good, 5-6 service calls for
a 50 hr week. Other weeks suck. You wind up with one or two 1 hour jobs.

Then you get times when the economy is down, people find ways to fix
their equipment themselves, or try to get by without needed repairs, and
you find yourself with no service calls for two or three weeks.

Then he had the $$$ for health insurance and chose not to purchase.

"What part of "Other weeks suck. You wind up with one or two 1 hour
jobs." didn't you understand? I didn't imply that the 1 or 2 hour
weeks happen only once in a while. Sometimes you can go for months
without a decent service call."



I don't know a good service tech alive that hasn't been and isn't up to his
eye balls.
I've even gone out myself and at $140.00 per hour.

Sheesh.

JC