Hello Friends, We's worth less then toaster oven technicians! When a toaster oven breaks, it's either the control timer or the heating element, --either way it's two screws and two wires. When a Steinway action breaks, it's just two screws, (aint no wires to worry about). We just send for a new one, tighten them two screws and we're all done.!! -Mike Jorgensen some educational administrators could use some education JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote: > In a message dated 8/13/1999 6:31:54 AM, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu quoted: > > <<" bottom fishing on price to see if they can scare anything up. > Probably will ">> > > While I kinda agree with this sentiment I don't needfully take the 'somewhat' > negative view reflected in most posts on this thread. It is easy to be > cynical about such matters.... but looked at another way it will be a > blessing for 'someone', possibly:-) > > For a tech who has been in the field a few years and has never quite gotten > off the ground...for whatever reason, people skills, work habits, > established techs too numerous in area, etc............but whose skills are > average-to better, this could be exactly what is needed at that point in > their professional life. For those of us who have done/are doing Univ. work > we know that if people skills or work habits are lacking in some areas they > will/must be improved in a Univ situation "OR ELSE" :-) > > Low salary level for 3/4 time at 22.5K = 30K full time and is that really > sooo bad? > 3/4 time is.... 30 hours per week X 50 weeks =1500 hrs per year or $15 > dollars an hour. This is without any expenses to speak of for 'anything' > but personal tools. > > To this one could reasonably expect to add 3 or 4 "outside" tunings per > week and then we come to a very livable income don't we? At $50 per tuning > and using 3 tunings per week X 50 weeks =7.5K > Now taking the 22.5K base and adding the 7.5% SEP tax to it gives us a figure > of 24.187K and adding the 7.5K (extra outside tuning) would give us 31.687K > per year without any expenses to speak of.....put another way this is the > amount one would needfully earn AFTER EXPENSES, before taxes, in a private > shop situation to equal the position at Binghamton U. > > Now figuring 3/4 time for the Univ. work and 2 hours per tuning for the > outside work that would give us an average of 36 hours per week of 'work > time'......... > 36 (hours) X 50 (weeks)= 1800 hrs of work time per year....... > 22.5K + 7.5K =30K/1800 = 16.67 per hour > Now this ain't living in the lap of luxury but it ain't "chump' change either > :-) > > Also Binghamton is part of the State of NY University system and there will > be, by State law, 'some' collateral employee benefits...just what I couldn't > say but there will be some. In addition as part of the faculty(?)..... > Education/Continuing Education possibilities are there for the taking by the > tech at a very reduced cost, if any costs at all. > > So would this position be attractive to some of us? No, of course not...at > least not in the position we are in now :-) Can we 'all' honestly say that > it would not have been 'very' attractive to us at some point early in our > tech lives...I kinda doubt it. > > Just another point of view. > Jim Bryant (FL)
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