Arthur R I too did heavy maintenance in my early career but tranfered to the flight lines and the joys of working in the wet and cold dispite this heavy maintenance never had the buzz of working to a tight schedual of 45 min turn rounds or if the a/c was changed due to a lack of time working on it until it was fixed and reslotting back into the scheduals plus we worked on many different types which added tothe interest.lets face it the job has changed over the years no more multiconnections on equipment just a black box change I know the skill these days is which black box to change and the IFE is a nightmare. but thats seems have been sorted .I will stand by for the brickbats