A little background information....
Since 1996 I've been repairing computers. That was before you could order pre-built kits out of catalogs and pass them off as hand-built computers. Most working techs have probably never had to set a clock multiplier. I also fell in love with Mac's that year, getting my first Mac a LCII which I used for many years. I've always preferred Macs over PC's, especially since I rarely play games on PC's and now that Apple has started using the Intel processors, Mac gaming has actually picked up. I don't have a problem saying stuff is crap... AMD's are shit, Dell's are trash... but that's not really news. I have a degree in PC Repair, A+ Certification, and I'm working on other Technical Certifications.
Me personally, I live in a rural toilet called Maiden, North Carolina. It's a typical trailer-park infested country hell-hole. People around here are ignorant and rude, which makes life generally unpleasant because these people are all you have to deal with at grocery stores, gas stations, so really it's no wonder I prefer to drive at least 20 miles away to do all shopping, and "pay at the pump" was a real blessing, so now I can buy gas without having to confuse someone by paying for $48 in gas with $50 (I have been told "you gave me too much" before!). Once my family situation is settled I'm actually leaving this area.
Life being unemployed does suck, every day I cannot find a steady job I come closer to losing the contents of my storage unit. Luckily I'm mostly out of debt, I only owe my grandparents about $3k from carrying cost of my business that I closed, not to mention what I owe the IRS from past mistakes of letting people pay me as contract labor. I get job offers every week, but it's all the same, they want me to basically give up my customer list and do on-site work, and have me make cold-calls for prospective customers. Why should I do that for $10/hr when i was doing that exact job for $75/hr?! Then they all want to pay me as contract, which is something I will not tolerate anymore. I would rather wait for a good job to come across that offers benefits and will pay me properly so I can finally address some of my health issues that are keeping me side-lined from taking a temporary job which is usually working on my feet in some sort of demeaning retail environment, pitching service plans and answering dumb questions by blithering idiots. I have more than one story which will be posted on this blog of the stupidity that can be seen working with the general public in this area.
About Me
- Blair
- I'm a unique individual, I don't do things to "fit-in" mostly because I don't fit in anywhere. I'm very opinionated and passionate about certain things. I do live with my grandparents and mother, I traded my freedom for peace of mind that they are okay, besides that, they gave me half of the house and it's bigger than my apartment. I enjoy working on my part of the house as a hobby, I also enjoy working on cars. Recently I had to close my business due lack of business thanks to some unscrupulous hucksters trashing my good name all over town, clients believed their lies and business dwindled. I feel sorry for those people, but I don't pity them, stupidity brings its own punishment. Now my health has degraded so I'm having trouble finding a new job, I get offers weekly but none are going to be anything I can stick with for years, which is something I want. My career is my life, has been for years.