It took me twenty years, but finally I got the chance to operate a robot at work! This has been a long time coming, because ever since I was young I have been obsessed with robots and sci-fi technology.
I read a lot of comic books back then, and watched a lot of cartoons, and my imagination was always captivated by stories involving futuristic technology.
I would even draw pictures and blueprints for robots I wanted to make one day. Eventually my passion for tech led me into the HVAC industry, but that was by default. HVAC tech is evolving at a breakneck pace, and has been for 20 years, so even though they don’t use robots or lasers it is still pretty interesting. Well, after 10 years in the business I finally got my chance to play with a next-gen kind of toy, when I used a drone to explore the ductwork of an abandoned building. The job was to remove all the old ductwork from an abandoned office building. This place was 15 stories tall, and there was a literal maze of air ducts inside it. It would have taken a crew of HVAC techs an entire week just to evaluate everything, but with my drone skills I was able to map it out in just one day. By piloting the drone through the ductwork I could get footage so the other techs knew where all the trouble zones were located. I really hope we get more big jobs like this, because using this drone is the most fun I’ve ever had doing HVAC work.