Job Duties. As an instrumentation technician, you will test, calibrate, install, repair, and inspect monitoring devices. According to California's Employment Development Department, you'll also perform general maintenance on the equipment and design new measuring and recording equipment (www.edd.ca.gov).ccording to PayScale.com, the majority of instrumentation and controls technicians earned between $43,894 and $88,630 a year, as of January 2014.
Boils themselves are not contagious, but the bacteria that cause boils are. Until it drains and heals, an active skin boil is contagious. The infection can spread to other parts of the person's body or to other people through skin-to-skin contact or the sharing of personal items.
There are several different types of boils: 1  Furuncle or carbuncle: This is an abscess in the skin usually caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. 2  A furuncle can have one or more openings onto the skin and may be associated with a fever or chills. Share Your Story. 2  A boil, or skin abscess, is a collection of pus that forms in the skin. 3  Boils symptoms and signs include. 4  a firm reddened bump, 5  tender, swollen skin surrounding the bump, 6  the bump may increase in size, 7  pus-filled head on the bump, which may spontaneously drain, weep, or ooze.