Well no bites yet on the e-bay stuff for tech support, I’ll likely re-list the virus cleaning for 7 days instead of 3. I was hoping to avoid the chance of anything going beyond my two week trial of LogMeIn Rescue without at least one sale, but it looks like I’m going to have to make a decision on that yearly license before I have any takers.
Logic says it will take a long time to actually build anything since the customer base that used us at HiWired and Ctrl-Center has no reason to find me at eBay or here for that matter. Heck the readers of the old blog don’t know where I am either since it disappeared with everything else rather abruptly. I did back it up after all it was 3+ years of blogging but it really doesn’t belong to me so I can’t really just re-post it. It’s going to take time. I shouldn’t expect to replace the old paycheck in a few days.
I really need to add a networking service and a printer install service, my problem is you never know with networking particularly when done remotely so the price point is an issue. I’ll likely try adding it in the next day or so with the ice storm coming.
On the bright side I do have a job interview on Monday at a college near Boston, I don’t know what will come of it but we will see. The stuff I’ve been seeing on monster is in my old pay range or slightly above but not of course working from home as I was doing before so there is the price of driving 5 days a week vs 1.
With unemployment when it starts coming I’ll be getting 64% of my base 40 hour check with the child allowance before deductions. According to my math with some adroit budgeting we can get by without going into a hole but without getting ahead. That will give me time to either find a job that pays something near what I was making or give the eBay thing a go. Most of my friends and former co-workers seem to think I can do it. I think it will work but it is just a question of time. So I guess I’ll likely buy that LogMeIn license for the year and see what becomes of it.
Hey its already coming in handy tonight, a friend of mine is having a printer issue and I’ll be able to have her sign in remotely to resolve it once she gets home. What what I’m hearing it might just be a wrong default device. If not then I can use the practice.
FYI if your printer ever doesn’t print without erroring out go to the printers area in Control Panel and look to see what device has the check mark. If your printer doesn’t have a check next to it then your system has a different default printer. Right click on the printer you want to print to and set it as the default.
Its a simple fix and will save you a headache. Next week it might save you an eBay bid.
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Sorry to hear that guys.. I split back in August disgusted with mid-management. It worried me they were hiring more and more without a solid customer base. There use of freebie software was a huge mistake. I can imagine the re-infected PC and the customer going to say Geek squad. The first they can say is “boy did they rip you off” . You dont even have any licensed antvirus software. The one time quick ripoff sale thing only works for a short time. That is why they were always trying to get new partners.
Nice to hear from you Ken well these things happen. My main concern these days is finding a replacement job.
I have to disagree with you on one point Ken. The fact that AVAST wasn’t used (Sana WAS licensed) didn’t make it ineffective. Our job was to clean the systems. If we were providing pay AV software the price would need to be at least $30 higher. In addition its been my experience and I suspect you would agree with me on this, that it is the behavior of the user that causes re-infection not licensed vs unlicensed software. How many people with licensed software did we seen infected. A ton.
Well the problem is that on all the security sites out there NOBODY was even considering using sana to protect a pc. The customer was told he was purchasing Spyware and Antvirus protection and soon found out he was getting something he could have downloaded for free. Since sana was not even considered a viable solution I suspect it was often removed by other support companies as being useless. A good firewall, realtime spyware protection, a licensed antivirus program would have been real protection. What other companies such as Plumchoice do is give you a free diag and then determine what package you need. A much smarter way to go. AVG has purchased SANA and after a retooling it will be a good addition but not a replacement for an Antispyware program.
But Sana was not put on alone it was put on with Avast basic. The service itself (the virus cleaning) was for many customers a labor intensive process and well worth the price charged. At least in my opinion.
Ok well we can agree to disagree. I felt we were ripping off the public. In the two years I was there I saw us go from mostly repeat customers to mostly all one time customers. I am guessing most of them went elsewhere after trying hiwired.