Short #44 - Myth - Time as a Tech Equals Pay
HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Bryan Orr
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this short podcast episode, we talk about the myth that time at a job or in the business equals or deserves pay increases.
Many people believe that showing up for a long time justifies a raise. They aren't necessarily progressing in their field, but they think they've spent enough time to warrant a raise. A business relationship is an agreement that you will perform specific tasks for a specified rate. If you don't go above and beyond or progress, then there's no reason for that pay rate to change.
Soft skills, cleanliness, and overall professionalism are also important to job efficiency and performance. If you don't improve those, then you may not give your employer a reason to believe that they should give you a pay raise. You are not owed more money because you have simply worked at a place for a long time.
If you work for a company that focuses on sales, the company has to make a profit for them to pay their employees more money. So, improving your own profitability as a tech will give you a case for deserving a raise. Investing in yourself can translate to success within the business. You will be a good earner only if you can bring quality work and skills to the table.
You can also choose to move to a different business or segment of the industry. Ultimately, you have to invest in yourself and make decisions for yourself. Your value does not depend on how much time you spend with a company or in the industry. As a technician, your value depends on the work you put into the industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is the HVAC School Podcast. This is a short episode. This is the |
| 0:06.2 | podcast that helps you remember some things you might have forgotten along the way as |
| 0:08.7 | well as helps you remember some things you forgot to know in the first place and forgetting things is not |
| 0:14.2 | something that you should feel bad about because when you learn a lot of things |
| 0:18.0 | and you know a lot of things and you forget a lot of things just like my grandpappy |
| 0:22.0 | used to always say, son, I've forgotten more about |
| 0:25.2 | this than you ever knew. I kind of like that phrase. Anyway, so today's episode is about |
| 0:30.4 | just because you've been doing it a long time doesn't mean you're owed a raise. |
| 0:34.0 | I don't think that's what the title is going to be. I haven't quite figured out what the title is yet, |
| 0:37.5 | but I want to talk about this topic because it was one of the myths that was shared on the HVAC school group when I asked about what are some common myths in the |
| 0:44.4 | trade is one that I liked actually shared by our own Bert Testerman he's a pretty |
| 0:48.4 | deep guy deep water you wouldn't know it from watching his videos anyway |
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| 1:18.1 | outside checking your charge or whatever and still reading what's going on on the |
| 1:22.1 | inside which is pretty cool. |
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