Just got back from my first "house call"....

[BZeto]

A real estate rep was having some troubles with sharing a printer between a few laptops and a wireless connection. In about an hour and twenty minutes I had it working smoothly (a good amount of the time was spent waiting for the lady to show up to give me the win xp password).
Walked out with $60. It was a great feeling, it being the first time, not to mention the money for such a simple job.

 

[PowderBB3D]

Not a bad pay for something like that. I always end up doing crap like that for free. Mooching friends/family...

Hahaha

 

[AFB]

Do you work for your self?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: PowderBB3D
I always end up doing crap like that for free. Mooching friends/family...

usually is the same case for me. although i did make a 10 page powerpoint presentation for a ladies college class and got $50 for about 1 hour work on it.

 

[BZeto]

Yes, it was not through a company or anything.

 

[WannaFly]

I hope that $60 was worth a lifetime of free tech support bwhahahahha!

Anyway, good job.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: WannaFly
I hope that $60 was worth a lifetime of free tech support bwhahahahha!

Agreed. Would take a bit of the profit, and invest in some Astroglide.

 

[rpc64]

Originally posted by: BZeto
A real estate rep was having some troubles with sharing a printer between a few laptops and a wireless connection. In about an hour and twenty minutes I had it working smoothly (a good amount of the time was spent waiting for the lady to show up to give me the win xp password).
Walked out with $60. It was a great feeling, it being the first time, not to mention the money for such a simple job.

How did you arrive on the payment amount? Do you have like a set rate per hour or something? Me and a friend are thinking about starting up something like this but we have to figure out how to price our services.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: BZeto
A real estate rep was having some troubles with sharing a printer between a few laptops and a wireless connection. In about an hour and twenty minutes I had it working smoothly (a good amount of the time was spent waiting for the lady to show up to give me the win xp password).
Walked out with $60. It was a great feeling, it being the first time, not to mention the money for such a simple job.

I hope you're REALLY good at networking. Not all of them will be that simple, trusts me. But yeah, you can make some really good money if you're good. I just don't like onsite at private houses... some people are so messy, have cats and their cat fur everywhere, dusty, their computers under their desk, so you have to climb under there and smell weeks of feet, etc.

 

[Mallow]

tax free I hope? :Q

 

[jagec]

There are the good one, then there are the ones where you feel like pounding you head against the wall repeatedly.

Just wait until you get someone who needs a way to use Gator without popups, or something, and thinks you must be lying when you say it isn't possible.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: rpc64

Originally posted by: BZeto
A real estate rep was having some troubles with sharing a printer between a few laptops and a wireless connection. In about an hour and twenty minutes I had it working smoothly (a good amount of the time was spent waiting for the lady to show up to give me the win xp password).
Walked out with $60. It was a great feeling, it being the first time, not to mention the money for such a simple job.

How did you arrive on the payment amount? Do you have like a set rate per hour or something? Me and a friend are thinking about starting up something like this but we have to figure out how to price our services.

Well, the guy asked how much... I didn't really think about it before getting there, so I figured in the drive to the place, and the job itself. $60 sounded fair so I said, "how about $60". And thats pretty much it. I dont know if I will be doing anymore onsite jobs anytime soon, this just came up out of the blue so I hadn't really prepared for pricing and what not.