When I started in the industry I was a shop tech for 7 years and it is a great way to learn how equipment works from the inside. It really is kinda like grunt work as it is stuff the road techs are not equipted to do. Some people love the shop and some dont.

Now I prefer being a road tech for over the last 10 years and have no desire to go back into the shop to work. I look at it from the point of what is going to make me happy for the next 30 years and that is not a shop position. There is something to be said of not showing up to the same office everyday to punch the same time clock. Sure my van has GPS to track when I get to customers but I go to different locations and meet different people everyday. I run my van like its my own little business cause if you think about it its the customers that pay your bills, not your comapny. With out the customers the company would have no money. Lets show up and do an honest 8 hours worth of work for 8 hours pay pay then go home and enjoy life.