Gurm needs a job.

[gt40]

Actually, my brother is doing fine with his business. He does assemblies for those more discerning customers, but most of his income comes from troubleshooting/repair of older equipment.

[Gurm]

Yeah, I don't mind building the occasional machine for someone I already know. I build machines for my friends (or just supervise) and family.

But it's like this guy I worked with, Paul Lu, used to say:

If they call you ONCE for technical support, your profit is nearly gone.

If they call you TWICE for technical support, your profit IS gone.

If they call you THREE times for technical support, you may as well have never built the machine, and you should have just handed them $50.

And it's true. I'll build a custom machine for a select clientele, but that's it.

- Gurm

[thop]

That's about right.

[Wombat]

Yeah, computer guys get the shaft often.

Nobody ever walks into their mechanic's garage and says, "You changed my oil three months ago, and now my A/C failed. You must have broken something. I expect you to fix this."

[Gurm]

On the other hand I'm nowhere NEAR as tolerant as poor Technoid's work seems to expect him to be. I tend to tell people to go screw. "No, sorry your antivirus software can't in fact make your screen turn funny colors - that's a broken monitor. Cope."

- Gurm