Subj : How far I've come...
To   : MRO
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Feb 15 2023 01:49 am

RM> most of the jobs I did, my customers actually paid me more than I asked
  > for so that I would be readily available for them when they needed me

CO> Now there's the ticket!  I wish I was as resourceful as you seem to be.

MR>yeah he's really lucky. it's hard to believe that customers paid him more
  >than what he asked for.

In general I was charging less than the going rate for things because I was
working out of my house with lower overhead. Some of the jobs I was doing
it was hard to find people to do them at all - things under the heading
of Property Management doing maintanance and such on cottages for people
who were not there enough hours to look after the places themselves if
they wanted to have any time to get any enjoyment out of the place.

I was also doing computer work and, as an example, one time I got a call
from the Town Clerk (think Mayor's Chief of Staff) who had a computer
they couldn't spare out with a major computer place who tried for over
2 weeks to get it working right and I think were finally starting to
suggest they just scrap the nearly new computer and buy a replacement.
She called me and asked if I'd look at it, explaining the situation,
and I told her if they couldn't fix it I doubted that I could, but she
said she'd pay me to try.. I got it working in about 3 hours.
It was a totally hidden hardware issue where everything worked right
when tested on it's own, but didn't work right together, in only one
out of four identical computers bought at the same time.

Later when I stopped in one day she introduced me to a sales rep from
Wang computers as their Computer Guru..    B)

---
 þ SLMR Rob  þ This echo gets stranger and stranger..Oh that's me..sorry
 þ Synchronet þ CAPCITY2 * capcity2.synchro.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/Rlogin/HTTP

.