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Originally Posted by mikester
Yeah, I get what you're saying but I'm just no interested in going that far. It would have to be a hard 'no' for that sort of thing. It would be too much work to make this a real business and a full time job and I've known too many guys who have done that to want to dip into it myself. I'm not interested in it and in fact with my day job I consult for companies doing this all day long so it'd likely be viewed as competitive by the company I work for.
The other thing is - I don't really limit myself to just computers. I have repaired just about anything computer-like from toys, game consoles, TVs, Monitors, set-top boxes like Tivos AND computers. I however Hate every even revision of Windows (Vista, 8, etc).
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My friend hates his job. Wearing too many hats as a business owner leaves no time for anything else. He's always on call and is burned out on the crazy schedule. He builds cabinets for himself at my shop for fun a couple of Mondays nights out of the month to catch his breath. I have been teaching him for the past 6-7 years.
I know you are good, so once you start, be prepare to say no when the good words get around, but it will die right there and then because it does not spread around for growth or more work.
I started off building furniture and cabinets as a side thing going to college when I was 20 and it grew into a monster (all of it by word of mouth) with headaches and sometime big smiles. It was different because I had no wife, kids, and basically nothing back then so I can go at it full on.
How would you market yourself on those thing you want to do ?