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| CalixPapi:
I am already doing this so I was just seeing what the trend has been for others as far as pricing. Once a skill set is brought into my extended family you get bugged. No way around it and I do like helping family. I do value my time too and I am not looking at this to make a living. I have my full time job and I am in computers so its not a stretch for me to do these jobs on the side. The lifetime support is exactly what the neighbor in the original post was trying to get. Honestly if he didnt try to rush me for every job I would still be helping him but this is why I have started setting boundaries and looking for a way to charge fairly because I do get asked what is it going to cost and when I make it low then all of the other requests come into it. Doing these jobs however has opened connections to other tech savy people that I probably would not have met unless through the weird chains of clients. So its not a total waste of time IMO. |
| knave:
Don't forget that on average a $200 computer will meet the needs of most of the folks who need to ask for support. Two hours of your time or a shiny new budget system... |
| Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: knave on April 07, 2015, 12:40:14 pm ---Don't forget that on average a $200 computer will meet the needs of most of the folks who need to ask for support. Two hours of your time or a shiny new budget system... --- End quote --- I don't necessarily support your notion here. Spec me a $200 PC. If anything, most people need a tablet. Now spec a tablet that is going to give a well rounded experience. |
| Vigo:
Pushing family and friends to switch to Win7 and Chrome has dramatically dropped requests I have gotten. These days, shady routers are the only things I seem to get asked about, and every time I just told them to buy a new router and all was fixed. |
| SavannahLion:
I help my mom, my immediate family and one old retired guy (whose PC is now in my garage waiting for a new part) that's it. If people ask I tell them it's outside of my field or that I don't do it anymore. The number of zombie XP boxes floating around now is ball dropping and the viruses are some of the nastiest I've seen so far. I'm not a kid anymore and I have a family to take care. I can't blow another 20 hours a week for no pay fixing someone elses zombie crap. There was a time, long ago, when I genuinely thought these people I helped would help me get jobs, discounts, whatever. Don't believe what they tell you, it's all lies. All of it. They DO NOT have a position open in their company, in their relatives startup or any other place of business at all. Their discounts are crap. And if whatever they have to offer is useful, it will be off the table within a day after fixing their PC. If they want to offer me a reliable job, give me the job first then i'll fix their PC. So like PBJ says, just say no.... |
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