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Hit job number 1,000 on my own last Friday and just sat in the van for 10 minutes
Started my shop out of a beat up Ford Transit back in 2019 and honestly I never thought I would get past a couple hundred jobs, let alone a thousand. Last Friday I swapped a bake element in a wall oven out in the west side, nothing special about the job, and when I punched it into my invoice app the counter rolled over to 1,000 and I just stood there in the driveway staring at my phone. What got me was not the number itself but doing the math on the way home, because 1,000 service calls means roughly 1,000 strangers who let me walk into their kitchens and trusted me with their stuff. I still remember job number one, a dryer that would not heat and I misdiagnosed the thermal fuse twice before I got it right, and the lady still left me a 5 star review because I was honest about messing up. The thing nobody warns you about is how the milestone sneaks up on you, since you are just chasing the next ticket and the next part order and suddenly you have a number that means something. Curious if anybody else keeps a running job count and what number made you sit back and go huh, or do most of you just not track it at all?
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cole_murphy24d ago
That line about 1,000 strangers trusting you with their stuff hit me harder than the number did. I do HVAC work and I keep a count too, not on purpose at first, just the invoice numbers climbing. Hit 500 last spring on a no cool call in July, 103 outside, and the lady handed me a glass of sweet tea while I was still sweating through my shirt. What got me was thinking about every house I have been in and how most of those people I will never see again, but for that one hour I was the guy they trusted to fix it. You can track it or not, but once you do the math on the people instead of the tickets, it changes how the whole thing feels.
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