Just hit 1000 fixed laptops and it's wild how different the work is now

I was cleaning up my work log last month and the total caught me off guard. Back when I started, most jobs were swapping drives or fixing broken hinges. Now it's all about finding the right bios chip on a board or dealing with liquid damage from coffee. The tools changed too, from a basic screwdriver set to needing a hot air station for every other repair. Anyone else feel like the skill floor got way higher in the last few years?

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the_terry4d ago

That's a solid milestone, but the hot air station for every other repair part is a bit off. Most of the daily stuff is still connector swaps and board-level power issues. The real change is needing the schematics and boardview files open just to find a simple fuse.

wendysmith4d agoMost Upvoted

Ugh, tell me about it. I spent twenty minutes looking for a fuse last week with the boardview up, only to realize I was staring right at it the whole time. Felt like a real genius. They hide those things in plain sight now just to mess with us. Makes you miss the days when a quick visual check was all you needed.