Income, the prestige.... As you said, essentially now you're part electrician, part computer technologist, if you will, and part mechanic. The actual changing of parts is the easy part. Getting there is everything else. It's all the hard work to get there.
The perception isn't there for a lot of the trades. If there's no prestige in doing it, why would a woman ever want to come to a job site and work like that—unless they love it, like you?