This is another request. I hope I can do it justice.
My days start out all pretty much the same. I wake up a half hour before I have to get in my van to get to my first job of the day. This gives me time to shower, cook some eggs or oatmeal and get dressed. I usually forget to shave, so that helps save some time. And I've laid my clothes out on the floor the day before, so I know just where to find them. It's a good system.
Now I'm in my van, driving to my first stop of the day. Who knows where it is! I do, actually. There's no surprise there. I'm just trying to liven up this experience for you. It's pretty mundane so far. I'm listening to a podcast or an audio book, because the radio makes me cry. I'm not sure when the maximum amount of Chicago or Nirvana you can listen to is, but I've just about reached it. I'm definitely done with the Eagles. Lousy radio. But I digress...
Interesting side note, one podcast I listen to, called the Nerdist, was the inspiration for the name of this blog. Okay, maybe 'interesting side note' was hyping this up too much.
Today, my first job is an hour away. And I skipped breakfast, so I went ahead and got a bagel from McDonalds. I don't like the number of calories that it shows next to that bagel. I still order and eat it, but I don't like it. Well, I do like it, and I'll do it again, but I'll still stare squinty-eyed at those calories, daring them to say something to my face.
Now I'm at my first job! And it's a mystery! A staff member's email isn't working! Dun-dun-duuuun! And then the plot thickens! Turns out, the doctors had just fire their office manager a couple days ago. They also turned off her company credit cards. The credit cards that she used to pay the bills. Bills of which also included the email. So this was a tough case. I figured this out when I got onto their website and it said, "Suspended." But that's okay, how were the doctors to know that their office manager was doing her job! They're just people too! Poor, over-educated, stupid people. I kid. And in case this is ever used as evidence in court, this entire website is satire. None of this ever really happened at all. Especially not short sighted dentists firing the one person who kept their huge, highly profitable business running. Because that'd be silly.
And I'm off! Back to Indianapolis to figure out why a computer keeps shutting down! Another mystery! Well, sort of. Turns out it was set to shut down after fifteen minutes. Okay, so that was easy too. But surely they can't all be this easy. On to the next job!
Now this next computer won't boot into Windows, and the doctor really needs it working. So I sit down, ready to start my magical repair skills. That's when he comes up to me and says not to bother with it, because it's under warranty, they are just going to replace it for free. Another problem solved! I'm making record time here.
My next job is more awkward than hard. An office had purchased a $100,000 piece of equipment and then decided they didn't like it. Maybe it's because it sucked, or maybe they had buyer's remorse, or maybe they hated their sales rep. Who knows! I'm not saying they hated their sales rep because he sold them a piece of garbage that didn't work and they really regretted it, but it's possible! But they had it all wrapped up for me, and really didn't want to talk to me, so I toss it into my van, loosely tie it to a shelf with an old stretchy cord that most definitely can't secure anything, and head back on the road!
It's now three in the afternoon, and I have to go help move an x-ray from one end of an office to another. We've done this three times with this same machine, and every single time, something breaks and it takes us weeks to get it back up and running. But not this time! This time I'm here. And we get it running immediately! Just kidding. It breaks and it's still not working. I'm hoping someone else can fix it tomorrow, because I wash my hands of it. Actually I don't care when anyone gets it running. It should have been tossed in the garbage years ago. But what do I know. I'm just a tech who apparently has to do very little during the day. I guess now I can see why it's been hard for me to justify any raises over the years. Who knew!