i'm sick of being used by people, just because i'm good at fixing computers, this one guy pissed me off so i purposely didn't fix his computer for him.. just pretended like i couldn't figure it out

does this happen to you? we should fight back.

Amen brother your preachin to the choir.

Just last month I helped a friend for 2 weeks doin their job untill it was done and all I got was a lousy twenty fu**ing dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea, me too.. When the Blaster came, I had about 30 calls that Monday..

I know the feeling, If my friends or family or even my friends, friends etc. Have a problem with anything that electricty runs thrue. They call me and what do I get? F&*%*%cking nothing. Or sometimes about R50 which is about $5!

I hate having to fix everyone's stuff too but I started charging money for my services...I made 20 bucks for formating a friends hard drive, and while we waited for it to format we played Soul Caliber 2. ahhh the easy life

Yeah, from next year. I'm charging no matter what I have to do!

I need to start chargin for some of the things i do for other ppl's computers............if they dont like it, then they (generally family) can either find someone else to do it or learn to do it themselves

why dont u charge money for ur services... i fixed someones yesterday, didnt even have it 25 minutes and i had it fixed.

How much can one charge someone to reinstall a OS or install a Soundcard? Anyone here got any ideas?

25 € +/- 25$

i jus made 25 lol ...think i see my own business sprouting up lol

no one calls me to fix anything

u gotta offer your services... shoot this is more money in my wallet ...meanin more spending money...for the finance

or first her to take without you having any say lol just messing..
Oh my gosh..my aunt...like once i set them up with routor and cable modem..(3 computers) i was then responible for EVERY time the ISP went down...i got a call from themm...wtf. Also when tehre little kids screwd up the computers, mustta been something ben forgot to upgrade(on $0 budget)
So yeah...after about 20 hours (3-4 weeks) my mom finally told them to backoff lol..

The problem I have with taking money is that it makes me feel so guilty. Yes I know there is nothing wrong with it, but its really hard for me to do (accept money).

But then again some problems can be a real pain to fix. Such as those incompatibility problems due to drivers etc.

tell ur conscious to shut up then lol.

honestly ben lol we were lookin at these freakin houses out in Roseville, CA ...the "house" she liked was 674,950 bucks lol ...at the minimum i gotta make 60k a year ...God help me

the way I see it is it's fun to fix computers, it's like a game, you vs. the computer, the computer will do what it can to mess with you, but if you use stratagy, you can beat it

anyways, that being said I also get tired of fixing my nieghbors computer, they got a laser printer (oh joy for me) when they can't print, they'll call me to fix it, and laser printers are a major paint, it the most complex printer and you can't single down a problem to just 1 component, so there you go, they all lookto us computer experts as titans of sorts, when we are still human, I mean I fix thier computer for free. kinda sux for me I'm almost broke, but anyways I just justify it by saying that I fix thier computer for the computer, computers are people too

I am basically the tech person for my skool,
the REAL tech guy never does anything and
he is always grouchy........
Maybe thats how techies come: grouchy....


Gonna hurt somebody!!!~!!@!@!@@@!!@!!@

Since I work with computers/internet people tend to think I am a free resource..

At some periods in life it just went out tha window and now I allmost have no friends outside my own office.. It's just to hard having people asking about their tiny issues after a hard day at work so I don't think it's worth it.

I mean I solve major problems all day and then having to cope with their fu**ing software firewall issues and crap.. NO WAY..

SO for the last few years I mainly go out with people from work and don't bother trying to get new friends.. Also allot of internet buddies..

Only problem is my wife left me and I don't want to get together with anyone from work.. Major bummer..

I guess that one needs to learn how to say NO!

I know the problem. i fix my friends computers for free,but friends of friends have to pay.I am still cheaper then phonesupport....and actually fix the problems(phonesupport never manage to find the fault problem). but for my friends and my family it usually pays of in some way(like a couple of free bears at the local pub, nicer gifts for my birthday and xmas, than everybody else of my friends. And YES i can always tell when a new virus i out....usually 10-15 messages on my phone

i feel like the odd man out here. ive never really fixed any of my freinds computers. in fact i really dont talk computers with most of my friends. ive never really givin it thought till now, weird

lol most of my mates know just as much if not more than i do about computers so i dont have to help them but i always have to help my mum - its ridiculous i cet yelled 2 every day nearly - "tell me how to attach a file on yahoo!!!" jeesssee!!! duh!!

lol my parents are farther behind.. lol they cant even get past the whole Connect to the Internet thing.. i write down directions and they still cant lol. So feel privelged ur at that stage and not further behind lol

my parents beet your by a mile. once we walked into a dentist office and you had to sign in on this computer(to let them know you were there), you simply click on your name. my mom walks up to it and sais "what button do i press". befor i answer she turns off the monitor

LMBO. Thats hilarious. Yea, my parents are sorta like that. Im like the only one who uses the computer nowadays, except for my sister (bandwidth hog ) My dad will write me these notes (when im not home and hes not home) saying you better fix this thing and blah blah blah, end up, all he needed to do was restart the comp or router. As long as his account works, i can do practically whatever i want to do with this beast. I recently got into the "fixing computers" field, lol. Gettin paid like crazy. Built my dad's friend's comp, there's gonna be like 3 more people who want a comp built for them. Cant wait! Just learned how to make a webserver and all that, another one of my dad's friend is interested in all that stuff. REALLY CANT WAIT!!