beardog posted: I soldered thousands and thousands of solder joints when I was a tech at ATT.Now that is am retired, I use wire nuts.
Too many failed crimps before I started tech to ever give up soldering. I tend to spend more time inspecting crimps than it takes to heat an iron, so anything more than one or two and the iron gets hot. I do get that it is too much like work though. My pet peeve is lack of slack in wire length, or even worse, ribbon cable... or gambling on wire colors. I've even seen 5 wire codes in one machine, three countries standards and change in ones standards 
