28/12/2013
Environmental Demands
Location - A computer repair and maintenance technician typically works indoors in a climate-controlled setting. If you work from home, you may choose your own work location.
Noise Level - The noise level will be low (fairly quiet).
Lighting Level - The lighting level will be dependent on your employer. In a workplace, you may have to work in florescent lighting. If you are able to work from home, then you can choose your lighting level.
Work Hours - This job may have fulltime hours (40 hours per week), however, depending on whether you work in an office environment or retail environment, your scheduled hours may vary. If you work from home, you may be able to come up with your own schedule.
Amount of Movement - This job typically requires that you sit for long periods of time. It also requires that you are able to lift computers and their related parts (e.g., monitors, printers, faxes) from the ground to a table and vice versa.
Cleanliness and Odors - This job setting is typically quite clean, although it may be dependent on how well you maintain the cleanliness of your office or work area.
Work Attire - Work attire will range - if you are in an office setting, work clothing will typically be business casual clothing. If you work from home, you can choose what you want to wear.
Structure and Predictability - This job will typically have a moderate degree of structure and predictability. This means that you might complete the same tasks each day, or you may have different tasks each day. These tasks might not be done in the same order each day. You might not always know ahead of time how long each task will take to complete. You might work in the same areas each day, and you might interact with the same people each day.
What's the Pace?
Steady: In most cases, the work pace will be steady, which means that you will always have some work to do. When the work pace is steady, you are working at a level “5” on a scale of “1” (nothing to do) to “10” (extremely busy, rushed pace).