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If you work hard and are skilled, it can be a very high paying job. It is a hard job. The image of the “grease monkey” is long dead. New cars of the last 25 years or more are super complex electronically controlled machines. SO, your title of “technician” is well deserved.I know guys working in busy shops in NJ who earn a hundred grand a year “turning wrenches.”It’s about efficiency and productivity. These are technical terms not just the normal meaning of the words.Let’s say you have an eight hour day. Deduct lunch and breaks, now you have six work hours. If you’re on the top of your game, you might do 1.25 hours of book time or more in ever clock hour. So if a job pays two hours and you’re getting 25 bucks an hour and you do it in an hour and a half. That means you can earn more money in less time. Every three hours your earning, in this example, a hundred dollars, not seventy five.People get good with repetition. The manufacturers and the dealers are always in a bit of a struggle over these issues. The carmakers are always trying to squeeze the book time down because they get hit for warranty at that rate.Add on certifications, expertise, experience, longevity, and you can see it becomes a career job.Unfortunately, it’s hard. Hard on the body, and not a a job for the less bright. What someone said above is true. Not every shop fits everyone, and management can change and mess up a good thing. But a real “A” tech is never unemployed long.I sold cars for thirty years and I really admire an excellent mechanic.

Drink coffee? Haha. I learned a while back that there is no job title that is universal but they are dependent upon what the company has decided based upon their needs. Example: My service manager also dispatches the techs. Another company may have a dedicated dispatcher. Many companies have a Lead Technician who may act as a service manager in another company. We used to have a parts person who did purchasing and warranty returns of parts. Today it falls to the tech, service manager or someone else.Here are some possibilities for this position:Order, receive and check components for installation, manage schedules of multiple installations, move manpower due to conditions like weather and other contractors (coordination), address installation problems, make change orders (paperwork), monitor job progress and billing, ensure the work follows the contract, final inspection and more depending on the company.If you are applying for a job ask to see the job description. You shouldn’t be expected to know. And remember that as an employee you may be expected to do other things under some circumstances.

No.But you could consider making the process of getting around to it more “sexy” and rope ’em in. From the answers I’m seeing here, most people have no clue at all what you do or just what an impact you can have on the final product that shows up in the cinema or the tube.I also think you may be missing a crossover work-environment camaraderie opportunity.People doing post also spend a ton of their jobs at their desks or stations which are festooned with computers or dedicated devices, displays, networking, etc. You’re not foley, you’re not ADR, but you can make or break the cohesiveness of a film.So, done well, this is a nuanced and highly detail oriented job. Engineering and medicine can be both, and ideally should be. Granted, you may not have spent 8–12 years in school, but you will have eventually and there is the apprenticing that is common in the film and audio production industries, and there is a thriving small cottage production industry handling lots more than LoTR.So, if someone asks, and they should do or your wife may have been sabotaging you, notice how they generally say they’re “an M.E.” offhandedly or “surgeon.” There is a reason, at least among the more sensitive ones.If you know what an M.E. is and aren’t interested in more info, they didn’t give you the droning braggadocio routine. If you DO want to know, you’d ask “Oh, what sort of work?” or “What project are you on right now?”You can do much the same. Take it from me. I have a couple of engineering degrees. They’re great. I ended up mostly doing work that drew on the knowledge, but not what I was studying or taught to do, once I realized that “their” agenda was not the same as MY agenda was. So, I know what it’s like to say “I’m a double-E” or hear “physicist” or “climatologist” or “packaging engineer” in reply. Beware the last one, though. They’re likely the reason your tablet died right on intended schedule!I used to hang out at MIT a lot for a software consulting group for USRobotics. At a soiree after a confab, I met a guy who, when I asked, said “packaging.” Oh?“Packaging engineer.” I said, “Oh, so you’re the person who decides how to prestress boards and what durability to give joinery or gauge of casing, etc? He said “Yup.” “Anything I might know about?” “Sure, every Palm Pilot up through the III’s [at that time],” having jumped to 3com when they bought USR. You know Kyle’s favorite expletive whenever Kenny is killed on South Park. Well, it slipped out.“You’re the one! You’re the one responsible for every Palm I’ve ever bought breaking just outside the warranty, no matter how nice I am to it!”“Just following orders, boss!” Turned out he was a good guy and I was just busting his chops.The point of this is that you can rope ’em in. Just say “Post.”“Huh? Post what? What’s that?” Viola. Conversation and these people you are afraid of are asking for more info about what YOU do. It’s new to them. Sure, they’ve heard Ortho or OBG or neuropsych or ME or whatever, but “Post?” You’re new and interesting if you present it properly.Now you close the noose.“Yep, post production.”“What’s that? In a factory? You’re in advertising/music/film/tv/radio?” Presto, you have a convo. For other groups, you may find “Production” works better as a carrot.Leave a little mystery and then you can explain just how exacting what you do really is and how much you have to know and to know how to do, and the degree of precision involved. It’s not really “like” what they do, but it’s just like it in some ways.And that’s how you get past your worry.You’ll know you’ve gotten the entree and delivery right when you hear “Gee, I had no idea it was so complex. I could never do that. I never really thought about it, to be honest.”You’ll be asked dumb questions like “Have you worked with Weseley Snipes?” or any of a bajillion big stars. In a way you have, but in truth, not so much. Explain that yours is a specialized professional technical career position, even if you work for a local business positioning video production house. Sell the sizzle with the steak when you talk about your job and selectively as you rope ’em in, if you want.“I’m in the film industry.” Nebulously lacking detail, but true.And if people are talking about the money they make, just move on. If they ask “Is there money in that?” an obvious reply is “It’s the movie industry! What do you think? But that’s not why I do this. It’s not about the money, though I’m not complaining!”Presto, income issue skirted. Trust me, most engineers can make a good living. But most engineers cannot get rich. To be honest, most are technicians, not creators, and there’s a place for that and it’s respectable and pays well. That isn’t any different from your industry.“Heard of ILM? People in my business do stuff like that.”“Star Wars? Are you kidding?” “No, I don’t do that but…” and get into it if they’re really on the hook for the full description.Look, you’re not a career bubble-gum scraper at a carny. While it’s humble, necessary and legitimate work, it’s nothing to crow about. That is not you.You have a dream job for many people in a dream industry. And you’re talking to NERDS, so you can nerd it with the best of them. Post? That’s a Nerdvana job!These people can’t do what you do and don’t know how. They’ve heard their fellows regale them with yet more stories of tricky resections and excisions and tolerances and materiel failure problems over and over. You have new technically intriguing stories for them. Enjoy being THAT guy. All you need to do is to work on YOUR post production to polish yourself as a final product on display!You have nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about. Just don’t lord it over people who are used to lording it and you’ll come off as very real and down to earth, with a really cool career. How can you find fault with that?Good luck!