To all those who have said that our job is no longer hard. Perhaps you have not seen the severe degree of maintenance violations that go on in some areas. OK so the physical and technical aspects of the job not beyond a mere 'technician's' capabilities. However,when you have to deal with a tech recording system which cannot tell you what has been done, when it was done and by whom, when you have company procedures which in some cases are absolute rubbish and in most cases overcomplicated and contradictory,when you have to wait indefinately for spares you order but still give a date your section of the aircraft wil be ready, when you have no tech suppoprt at weekends,when your managers refuse to get the aircraft cleaned for even detailed inspections,when your Quality dept admit your manager is a known cowboy but will not support you when going against him on a serious airworthiness issue,when you have to work with people who make every attempt to avoid certifying their work, or even doing any in some cases, when you have to fight the brown-noses off to prevent them signing off one of your serious defects as 'considered satis' when ,if you refuse to do a job because of lack of tooling etc the managers simply give it to night shift(who will do anything as long as they get away by 3am)and when you are considered a troublemaker for not going with the flow and cutting every corner expected of you...THAT is when the job gets hard.