Hit my 500th dryer repair last Thursday and it actually felt different

Honestly, I wasn't keeping track or anything. A customer called me out in Clovis after I fixed her Samsung dryer that wasn't heating. She asked how many I had done since my card said '10 years in business.' I pulled my log and counted. 500 exactly. Ngl, that number hit me because I remember struggling with my first few belt replacements back in 2014. Now I can tell what's wrong just by the sound the drum makes. Has anyone else hit a random milestone that made you stop and think about how far you've come?

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susan64925d ago

So does that mean I get a gold toilet seat or something?

tara_patel25d ago

500 bucks is what I tell people when they ask how many dryer repairs I've done in my career, and they always give me this look like "are you serious?" Gold toilet seat would at least make the 3am emergency calls worth it, right? But nah, you just get a mental catalog of every weird noise a machine can make and the ability to tell a stripped belt from a bad idler pulley just by closing your eyes and listening. The_Thea gets it though, that sound thing is real and it's basically the only perk besides the occasional thank you card. I've got one for a bad drum support roller that sounds exactly like a dying pigeon, and another for a worn-out blower wheel that rattles like loose change in a dryer. Gold would be cleaner, I'll give you that.

the_thea25d ago

That thing about knowing by the sound is real. I'm not a dryer repair guy but I do HVAC and there's a specific rattle in certain condenser fan motors that tells you the bearing is about to go maybe 200 hours before it actually locks up. Took me like 6 years to learn that sound and now I can call it out from across a parking lot. 500 is a nice round number though, must feel good to look back at all those belt changes and realize you barely even think about them anymore.