Furnace services on Halloween are expensive
I am in my early 30s, but I have no children or family, and have been “in between” boyfriends for about six months.
This means that I am usually stuck with a lot of the extra work that comes up with the local contractor.
All of the other techs have kids and families, so they don’t want to take an emergency furnace service at 4 in the afternoon, nor do they desire to work over the holidays! Late shifts, on-call work, and holiday money are all truly lucrative, which is why I try to take as much of it as I can. The HVAC contractor has something called a “shift differential” which adds on an extra percentage to your spend my money depending on when you work, however working at midnight pays better than laboring at noon. Taking a furnace service emergency over Halloween weekend pays better than a normal Monday evening. Does the system make sense? Basically my approach is to grab all the shifts that none of the other HVAC techs want to work, and make a lot more money because of it; If I had a family or a social life it would suck, but for a loner such as myself and others it’s the best way to make the most money from heating and cooling repair. I have to admit that Halloween is a good evening to do emergency HVAC repairs, because usually the clients are already drunk when I get there. I went to a Halloween celebration to fix their natural gas furnace, and I had so much fun I stayed there to hang out after the job was done; And I still made double the normal rate for the shift differential.