Once you hit top pay, that IS IT brother! You WILL however get increases for living expense, usually not much though. Management is not really a step up because it usually means a cut in pay (crazy right?!) and you will also transition from Union to Corporate... which isn't good for job security. So once you hit top pay, you hit a wall in the financial ladder...not that you will be struggling at top pay though...you'll be making more than nurses do. There is no longer a Pension Plan for new techs. You wanna retire? Set up a 401k. Upper management (not talking about the APS's) will not know who you are, what you do or what your name is... but they will definitely come out to your job site and point out to you with their soft, manicured hands what they feel you are doing wrong. Which is highly annoying when you are a tech with very very low repeat rates and very very high customer satisfaction rates.... HIGHLY ANNOYING INDEED! You will get hassled over the small stuff. "where are your cones? (as you are parked in a driveway) "did you put a sticker on the NID?" "Did you do your level 1 rehab at every house you went to today?" "Your sweater says Starter, not Centurylink...take it off"... and so on and so on. If you can let it all run in one ear and out the other without getting mad and just doing what they say, it will all be fine.
