Great thread!
i class myself as a glorified cleaner.
I did COT (Csrtificate of Electronics) in it’s hey day and later became Diploma of Electronics.....1st year was full time study, 2nd year Part time, I got a job as a reprographics technician working on photo copiers... Never finished the course,Only had a digital practicle to go because I met this beautiful girl who then all of a sudden had An unplanned bun in the oven, so working from 8:30am to 11-12:00pm at night was the only way to make ends meet.... No idea why but to this day she’s put up with me and we are married 31yrs, my son turns 31 next year!
i Said to myself I’ll do this for 18mths, never like the job when I started, travelling everywhere with unrealistic KPI and KRIs to achieve..... 36yrs later in still doing it! During this time, technology changes and I when I like back it’s WOW is this what it’s become.... Back in the days they did up to 30copies a minute, all analog tech and only B&W.... Now, it’s 135 copies a minute on big industrial presses that operates on 3 phase power, all digital with multiple VCEL lasers with a polygon mirror that floats in a magnetic field that spins 15,000-30,000 rpms....All CMYK colour, some are injet on continuous feed.
However that said, the reprographics is a dying industry with paper usage changing and reducing 12-16% year-year. Thanks to SSD and tablets where manuals are all electronic....And then there’s the WWW, internet!