Each day starts either at the job you couldn’t finish the previous day, or with your office dispatching you to a call. The important thing is you will always be working. You start at 7 AM and finish your first call by 9 AM. You needed to replace capacitor and clean the coil Call the office and they send you onto your next call which turns out to be a bad compressor. You diagnose this at 10:30 AM, you tell the building owner and they want it replaced. You call in to order the compressor with the numbers you got from the tag. You reclaim the refrigerant, pick up the compressor and go back in the morning to change it.
Just joined — been around the home services space for a bit but trying to learn more about what the day-to-day actually looks like for techs in the field. Simple question: how many jobs are you realistically running in a day?
It really can vary from company from company. Any company you first join should expect to have your days chartered around the office. (or wirh whatever tech they put you with to learn ) But the more places you go to. The more you learn, the more you are able to govern yourself. But in a day you could run 3 service calls to only 1, it really is throwing darts at a dartboard for Service. Residential is 100 percent more fast paced than commercial aswell keep in mind
The HVAC industry is projected to have 40,000–42,500 job openings projected each year for HVAC mechanics and installers in the U.S… Many people are retiring due to age with no one to fill in their place leaving places desperate for workers. Leaving you in a great position to get into the industry. HVAC can lead you to jobs in aerospace, shipyards, sales… the opportunities are endless.
HVAC paid for my vacations to Japan, Italy, Iceland, Texas, at 21 simply working with my hands. I’m not telling you this to brag, I’m telling you this to put you on… There is too much money out there for you to only make it typing emails! HVAC will teach you three trades at once! Electrical, Plumbing,And finally heating and cooling.
@Harry Battle 100 percent, and they tend to believe the cap for blue collar comes quick… But you can constantly improve your wage just by acquiring better skill sets and putting yourself in spaces and putting yourself in places you’re needed