For the last couple weeks while I've been stuck inside, I've been calling people who can't be,

people who are out working right now, doing jobs you've heard of, and some you probably haven't.

Hello?

Hi, it's Flora from E.L.

Hey. from E.LT. Hey!

First of all, I can misspell any name, so do you mind just spelling it for me?

So my name is Jacob spelled the normal way, JACOB, and it may sound super boring, but I am a label printer service technician.

So if I go around to all of our local warehouses, you know, Amazon and

pharmaceutical and medical companies, like I go every week to a company that does coronavirus tests and shipping them out all over the country.

So I go in and if things aren't printing right, I figure out why or replace parts, but my main job is just

going through and cleaning everything to make sure it's still working correctly.

How have these last few weeks been for you? So it's interesting. I mean, I'm one of the only

technicians that's actually leaving our office now because most places are closed

down or not accepting visitors.

But I go to our customers that are mission critical, I guess you could say.

Are you worried for your own health?

A little bit.

Obviously everyone's a little freaked out, but we've had to just kind of work like nothing's happening.

It's kind of crazy.

I mean, I'm just a printer repair guy,

but it's, I'm realizing how many people,

you know, they say essential workers, how many people really are

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