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Thread ID: 124692	2012-05-13 16:54:00	How much?	tut (12033)	PC World Chat

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1275108	2012-05-14 01:47:00	I think you will find most of the PC techs do it because they are good at it and they just understand computers My job is pretty mundane at the best of times, but i find computers are easy, logical and to be honest easy money	Gobe1 (6290)
1275109	2012-05-14 01:50:00	^ sometimes computers are far from logical :D	Renegade (16270)
1275110	2012-05-14 01:59:00	True Renegade, true, but a reboot fixes 90% of them ;)	Gobe1 (6290)
1275111	2012-05-14 02:19:00	Geeze ... I'd easily pay $70 an hour to have someone fix my comp if I couldn't myself ... in fact, before gaining a little knowledge (just enough to be dangerous) I had my own business and managed to somehow screw my computer up badly. Couldn't retrieve information, send out accounts or do GST return ... which I ended up paying the penalty for ... damn site more than $70 I can assure you. And Renegade is quite right ... sometimes comps aren't logical ... but rather than kick the living $h!t out of it due to pure frustration, I ask some of the experts on here for advise, which in most instances is given freely and in good faith. By the way TUT ... wouldn't go *****-slapping computer techs on an open forum like this ... some of them have skills you wouldn't believe ... :devil	SP8's (9836)
1275112	2012-05-14 02:31:00	List for me the tools you need. I have seen a Phillips head screw river in use and once a soldering iron. OHhhh .. forgot to ask ... where do you get Phillips head screw rivers from TUT ?? ... we only have the blade type down here in the South ... :lol:	SP8's (9836)
1275113	2012-05-14 02:54:00	OHhhh .. forgot to ask ... where do you get Phillips head screw rivers from TUT ?? ... we only have the blade type down here in the South ... :lol: Up here in the top of the south we only have wet rivers	gary67 (56)
1275114	2012-05-14 02:59:00	You've also got to remember it's not just about what you're doing, but about what a customer *isn't* doing while stuff is broken. Minor inconvenience when your lightbulb doesn't work because the bulb broke in the fitting. You can still usually survive with using the other lights in your home until you can get around to getting it fixed (Speaking from personal experience recently). Same for in a business as it is in a home. Internet down because of a firewall change or a system update that broke it? Nothing is getting done around the office for many people until that's fixed, so while it might cost $150 to get somebody out onsite within the next 15 minutes, it's already cost them a few hundred in lost wages, potential inability to receive customers due to the VoIP phones being down, amongst other thing.... A Cyber Cafe out West Auckland recently went down for a few days. They'd paid some techs up to $200 an hour who weren't able to resolve the issue for them. I come out riding on a white horse asking for $100 an hour and they were more than happy to fork out for 5 hours work while I got everything up and running that night. Business was stranded basically until I did. That $500 they paid was *cheap* too all things considered, I basically re-built the better part of their network from the ground up!	Chilling_Silence (9)
1275115	2012-05-14 03:05:00	A Cyber Cafe out West Auckland recently went down for a few days. They'd paid some techs up to $200 an hour who weren't able to resolve the issue for them. I come out riding on a white horse asking for $100 an hour and they were more than happy to fork out for 5 hours work while I got everything up and running that night. Business was stranded basically until I did. That $500 they paid was *cheap* too all things considered, I basically re-built the better part of their network from the ground up! Show off.......:-) Also to take into account, is the problem, which wasn't too bad until some idiot had a go at fixing it themselves first, or ley next doors kid cause he's "good at compuetrs", and now the problem is gigantic and will take 3 times as long to sort. Our works after hours charge (for the sys guys) is $200 + GST an hour. Still think $70 is bad? Try after hours plumbing firms....	pctek (84)
1275116	2012-05-14 04:16:00	Yeah the "Aunties cousins child" ends up making things worse ... You don't so much get that with a plumbing job. If the loo is blocked, it's blocked, and nobody is going in there until it's unblocked :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1275117	2012-05-14 05:06:00	I can see why the average home user would bark at $70 hour, considering our cheap computers ate these days. I entered my trade in the golden years where a good tradesman would be paid around the $40hour, oh how things have changed	plod (107)
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