tlarkin
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I am sorry but I don't buy the I work by building websites and fixing people's computer on the side. I used to work contract IT on the side to make extra money and I can't tell you how many messes I have cleaned up after people. I would have at least 3 clients a week that someone else before me came in and tried to set up a wireless network and totally botched it, or couldn't figure out how to port forward from a router for VPN or outside access so that person could remote into home while on the road.
I have heard stories from my past clients where most of them tried to hire some neighborhood kid to set up their systems, and was going to pay them $20 to get it set up. They couldn't do it, so they called the company I sub contracted for and they sent me out. I would bill them the companies rates and then invoice the IT contract company my rates and get cut a check with in thirty days. I stopped working for them when they owned me $3,000 dollars one month and took them 90 days to pay me. I told them they could shove their contract work where the sun don't shine and I ended up stealing most of their clients anyway. I was under contract but I never signed anything because the guy that hired me told me it was specifically for Macintosh work, but then their PC guy was a moron and i started picking up his slack, then they found out I also had HP enterprise certs so they sent me out to do repairs on HP proliant servers. Never once did they have me sign a contract because it was suppose to an experimental phase of testing out the Macintosh market.
I worked my ass off. Had to drive hundreds of miles on evenings and weekends round trip and had to fix all the problems on site because they were paying my outrageous contract rate. In the end I didn't make all that much extra money on the side after I took in all my costs, of gas, tools, materials, cell phone usage, car maintenance, new tires, time spent researching and studying everything. You think I knew how to set up Peachtree or Quickbooks Enterprise server? Hell no, never even touched the product but the company would send me that work. So, I would spend two or three hours the night before studying on how it works and then show up the next day and do it.
I don't really buy the fact that you can have an over $1,000 rig which you paid for yourself by doing little side work here and there. I had to work my ass off to make over $1,000 a month extra, and since it was contract work it was random. One month make $100 bucks and the next month make $3,000. I did all of that on the side and still worked from 7:30 to 4PM every day. Unless you worked that side job for a year to make over 1k to buy a system, monitor, all the after market coolers, SLI, etc.
I have heard stories from my past clients where most of them tried to hire some neighborhood kid to set up their systems, and was going to pay them $20 to get it set up. They couldn't do it, so they called the company I sub contracted for and they sent me out. I would bill them the companies rates and then invoice the IT contract company my rates and get cut a check with in thirty days. I stopped working for them when they owned me $3,000 dollars one month and took them 90 days to pay me. I told them they could shove their contract work where the sun don't shine and I ended up stealing most of their clients anyway. I was under contract but I never signed anything because the guy that hired me told me it was specifically for Macintosh work, but then their PC guy was a moron and i started picking up his slack, then they found out I also had HP enterprise certs so they sent me out to do repairs on HP proliant servers. Never once did they have me sign a contract because it was suppose to an experimental phase of testing out the Macintosh market.
I worked my ass off. Had to drive hundreds of miles on evenings and weekends round trip and had to fix all the problems on site because they were paying my outrageous contract rate. In the end I didn't make all that much extra money on the side after I took in all my costs, of gas, tools, materials, cell phone usage, car maintenance, new tires, time spent researching and studying everything. You think I knew how to set up Peachtree or Quickbooks Enterprise server? Hell no, never even touched the product but the company would send me that work. So, I would spend two or three hours the night before studying on how it works and then show up the next day and do it.
I don't really buy the fact that you can have an over $1,000 rig which you paid for yourself by doing little side work here and there. I had to work my ass off to make over $1,000 a month extra, and since it was contract work it was random. One month make $100 bucks and the next month make $3,000. I did all of that on the side and still worked from 7:30 to 4PM every day. Unless you worked that side job for a year to make over 1k to buy a system, monitor, all the after market coolers, SLI, etc.
), I got it from my grampa who needed a new system. I was a kid, so the thing was pretty much free, but he did charge 10 euros (bout $20 current bucks at the time) for the massive 15inch CRT the rig came with. I had to sell this when we moved to Australia about 3 years ago (that got me part of the money for the P3 rig below). I did, however, take out the upgraded parts and put the originals back in... I still have the GeForce2 MX sitting somewhere in my wardrobe.
made money on it