fchris17
14-12-2014, 09:09 AM
Hi all,
I'm curious to know what you feel are the 4 worst things about the fridge/ac trade?
I'm a gas breakdowns engineer with 10 years experience and was based in London before recently embarking on a year long around the world trip. That experience made me really re-evaluate my chosen career and made me realise that there were a few things that I generally hated about it. I wander how my 4 relate to yours in the fridge game.
1) The driving
Working in London was a killer as I would spend half of my day, stuck in traffic or racing from job to job.
2) The lack of colleagues
Despite constantly meeting customers from job to job, its a pretty lonely job with few opportunities to work as a team as well as make friends.
3) Hours
Yes the standard hours might be 8 to 5 but it would frequently result in getting home passed 7pm after the time consuming drive home.
4) The rush
Diagnostics and the safety regs were what drew me to the job, with companies trying to cram in 2 days work into 1 there just isn't time to implement these effectively any more.
The money was great (35k+), but I'm going to jack it all in as it can't be just about earning money. I'm concerned however, that all the work required to get into the fridge game is going to result with me working in a another trade with the same problems as I will definitely be back in London
I don't want this thread to be all about me though, what are the 4 things you dislike about it the most?
I'm curious to know what you feel are the 4 worst things about the fridge/ac trade?
I'm a gas breakdowns engineer with 10 years experience and was based in London before recently embarking on a year long around the world trip. That experience made me really re-evaluate my chosen career and made me realise that there were a few things that I generally hated about it. I wander how my 4 relate to yours in the fridge game.
1) The driving
Working in London was a killer as I would spend half of my day, stuck in traffic or racing from job to job.
2) The lack of colleagues
Despite constantly meeting customers from job to job, its a pretty lonely job with few opportunities to work as a team as well as make friends.
3) Hours
Yes the standard hours might be 8 to 5 but it would frequently result in getting home passed 7pm after the time consuming drive home.
4) The rush
Diagnostics and the safety regs were what drew me to the job, with companies trying to cram in 2 days work into 1 there just isn't time to implement these effectively any more.
The money was great (35k+), but I'm going to jack it all in as it can't be just about earning money. I'm concerned however, that all the work required to get into the fridge game is going to result with me working in a another trade with the same problems as I will definitely be back in London
I don't want this thread to be all about me though, what are the 4 things you dislike about it the most?