What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?
What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?
Computer related:
- Don't be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs...
- Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
- Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.
Buying stuff:
- There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
- Buck buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
- Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.
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Don’t be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs…
Disagree, while my family didn't pay me in cash, they made me food and such. They took care of me.
Depends on who it is. I'll spend 10 hours on a pc issue for my mom but if it's a cousin and it takes more than 10 minutes I'll either say it's outside of my knowledge or straight up say I would have to charge because of time commitment.
Depends on your level of agency as well. As a tech savvy teenager I felt I wasn't allowed to say no to my family asking for computer help. Now I follow what you outlined, close family and friends, free. Not so close family, 10.00 to look at it. 20.00 if it's difficult.
That's fair. I look at it for free if they bring it over but I charge 25 with a 3 hour minimum if there's any work. Most people say no thanks, I helped an older lady replace her hard drive and didn't actually charge her even though she wanted to pay since it really was just 5 minutes to order a new one and 10 to change it out once it got here. She gave me some homemade cookies so it was a good deal for me.
Haha did you get woken up in the middle of the night to fix things too?
I had the opposite solution though. I just threw money from my summer job at computing infrastructure until they had things that wouldn't often break. Maybe a bit silly, but it did eventually work!
I don't think anyone woke me up in the middle of the night to fix their computer when I was younger. If it did happen it was so infrequent that I don't remember it happening today.
Same. I owe a lot to my parents. The stable nurturing home they provided was a huge leg up in life. Showing them a thing or two on the computer was the least I could do.
The whole thing has degrees. I very much like to help my mother to update her browser. I really don't want to help choosing a printer to my cousin's second brother's wife AND install it during Christmas when we are home and I want to just chill with my close family.
My family did not and it just added another avenue they could sap my energy. I down play it a lot more these days.