So many times I would show up to work and feel like a worthless piece of shit. A very expensive worthless piece of shit. Not that I was making an an absolute fortune but I was being charged out by my company at a high rate. I was getting a good hourly rate and some nice overtime but usually the first thing I got told about on a new site was how bloody expensive I was. It was as if the customer thought if they whinged enough, I would some how work harder, faster and some how solve all there problems quicker.
I suppose it did not help when my office and boss talked me up as some sort of expert on some machine imported from overseas that I had never seen or heard of before. I was definitely in the wrong game I should have been in the office just telling people what they wanted to hear and sending tradesman out to try they luck.
Nine times out of ten I had no idea what was wrong with there machines especially when things had been modify and changed over years of band aid repairs and maintenance.
Some times I got lucky and was able to get things running again but many times it was hard to pin point exactly what was wrong. It was just a long process of elimination. Keep changing out parts or ordering replacements until the machine springs back to life. Of course that was never quick enough in todays fast pace world and the customer would end up with a big bill and me feeling pretty useless!
