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Hit 1,000 service calls at my shop yesterday and it felt wild
I pulled into the shop parking lot after my last job yesterday and checked my work phone. Turned out that was call number 1,000 for the year. I just sat there for a minute honestly. Started doing residential service work back in February and never really kept count. But seeing that number pop up made me realize how many kitchens and bathrooms I have been inside this year. From a lady in Santa Fe who had a light switch wired to her garbage disposal to a guy in Albuquerque who wanted three phase put in his garage for a CNC machine. It has been a lot of miles and a lot of panel swaps. Anyone else ever hit a weird milestone like that and feel kind of surprised by it?
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iris_schmidt3d ago
Hey, did you read that one article from Fine Homebuilding about the electrician who counted every single service call he did for like ten years? That guy had a whole spreadsheet with notes about each job, even the ones that were just changing a light bulb for an old lady. I remember it said his most common call was a tripped GFCI, which sounds about right from what you're describing with all those kitchens. Your thousand calls thing is wild though, it really puts the sheer number of houses you've worked in into perspective, doesn't it?
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sammartinez3d ago
Man I missed that article but I bet that spreadsheet was a goldmine. I started keeping a log a few years back and it really helps you spot patterns, like which neighborhoods have the same old wiring problems over and over.
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fionafoster3d ago
Oh man, that really does put it in perspective, especially when you think about all the houses out there with the same old problems. And @sammartinez is right about logging stuff, it's amazing how much you start noticing patterns once you write it down, isn't it?
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