Also called: Typewriter Mechanic, Office Machine Repairer (Typewriters)
Cleans, adjusts and rebuilds manual and electric typewriters for writers, collectors and offices that still use them.
A novelist mails you a 1950s typewriter with sticky keys, so you bathe the mechanism in solvent, adjust the type bars and replace the hardened rubber roller. Next you fix an electric IBM Selectric for a funeral home that still types forms on it. You also show a teen collector how to change a ribbon.
Mostly small shop owners; income depends on the business.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. No formal schooling; learned from an experienced repairer.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Small Engine and Mechanical Repair (trade school).
Growing slowly. Only a few hundred shops remain, but collectors keep them busy.
Low risk for 10 years. There is little for AI to automate in hand-adjusting decades-old mechanical typewriters.
Classes: Shop or metalworking class, Art, Business.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-2011.
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