I work in an office for a company in my town.
What they don’t know about my past though is that I was an independent heating and air conditioning specialist for a little while and that I have my HVAC certification. It is something I did not put on my resume when I decided to switch careers because it was only for a short time and had nothing to do with what I was going into. Anyway, this HVAC past of mine really came in handy recently. The central heating and air conditioning system went out at work and they were about to spend hundreds of dollars to call the local heating and air conditioning company to send out a certified heating and cooling specialist to fix the heating and a/c system. It would have maybe cost more since it is a commercial heating and air conditioning system. However, I stopped the manager and told them that I had some experience in heating and cooling repair. They looked at me like I was nuts but they let me check some things out. Well, it turned out that it was a simple fix of the thermostat they had in there being faulty with connections. So I went and repaired it pretty fast. They could not believe it! They really just couldn’t believe that an office worker fixed the heating and air conditioning problem. As a result, they gave me a one hundred dollar bonus on my next paycheck. I thought that was pretty awesome!