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firstdown
01-12-2010, 02:45 PM
If you want to make some quick bucks, just put an ad in the newspaper saying, "Computer running slow? Have spyware? $75 flat rate cleanup."

I easily made $1000 the week that ad ran. It's also very non-active work. I just have them bring me the tower, I hook it up in my office, run ComboFix, give it back and collect my $75 for about 5 minutes of actual work.
I have to ask why you only ran the add for one week and not on going if it work so well the first time?

TheMalcolmConnection
01-12-2010, 03:13 PM
Because it was more calls than I know what to do with. My normal customers are more than enough for a few bucks here and there. Spyware comes in ebbs and flows and it's one of those things someone more enterprising than I am could quit their job just to clean up.

But as computing evolves, spyware goes away for the time being.

I DO enjoy my free time since I have an 8:30-4:30 job every day anyway, it was easily 2-3 extra hours a day when I ran that ad.

mredskins
01-12-2010, 03:18 PM
Because it was more calls than I know what to do with. My normal customers are more than enough for a few bucks here and there. Spyware comes in ebbs and flows and it's one of those things someone more enterprising than I am could quit their job just to clean up.

But as computing evolves, spyware goes away for the time being.

I DO enjoy my free time since I have an 8:30-4:30 job every day anyway, it was easily 2-3 extra hours a day when I ran that ad.


I suggest you don't ever have kids if you love your free time. Oh to get off at 4:30 and have time to myself...a man can dream.

Schneed10
01-12-2010, 03:39 PM
i got a truck that could get around schneed. Well maybe through schneed.lol

lol!

TheMalcolmConnection
01-12-2010, 03:45 PM
I suggest you don't ever have kids if you love your free time. Oh to get off at 4:30 and have time to myself...a man can dream.

Yes, my wife and I have this discussion often. We have a lot of friends who just recently had kids and it's the best birth control EVER.

firstdown
01-12-2010, 03:57 PM
Yes, my wife and I have this discussion often. We have a lot of friends who just recently had kids and it's the best birth control EVER.
If your young enjoy some free time now and then have kids a little latter in life. There is nothing that can replace having a child in my opinion. You also have to remember I was a single parent for 8 years with my now 24 yr. old daughter and now she is out of the house I have a 3yr. old. So about 36 to 40 years of my life will be with a dependent child.

BleedBurgundy
01-12-2010, 04:18 PM
Because it was more calls than I know what to do with. My normal customers are more than enough for a few bucks here and there. Spyware comes in ebbs and flows and it's one of those things someone more enterprising than I am could quit their job just to clean up.

But as computing evolves, spyware goes away for the time being.

I DO enjoy my free time since I have an 8:30-4:30 job every day anyway, it was easily 2-3 extra hours a day when I ran that ad.

My thing is, I could never afford the toys that I get to play with now. To go from an operating budget of $300k to whatever I could afford would be miserably boring. IT on the corporate side has its bad side, but the funding is a huge bonus (at least at my co.)

TheMalcolmConnection
01-12-2010, 04:22 PM
If your young enjoy some free time now and then have kids a little latter in life. There is nothing that can replace having a child in my opinion. You also have to remember I was a single parent for 8 years with my now 24 yr. old daughter and now she is out of the house I have a 3yr. old. So about 36 to 40 years of my life will be with a dependent child.

My dad is the same way. He had me first and now he has one that's as young as 11. My wife and I will have the talk at 30 (2 years)...

TheMalcolmConnection
01-12-2010, 04:23 PM
My thing is, I could never afford the toys that I get to play with now. To go from an operating budget of $300k to whatever I could afford would be miserably boring. IT on the corporate side has its bad side, but the funding is a huge bonus (at least at my co.)

For sure, that's if someone wanted to start their own business though. I'm perfectly content with my six weeks vacation they give you here (I CANNOT believe that). Our budget was extra tight this year thanks to the economy, so no replacement computers for anyone the past two years..

BleedBurgundy
01-12-2010, 04:32 PM
For sure, that's if someone wanted to start their own business though. I'm perfectly content with my six weeks vacation they give you here (I CANNOT believe that). Our budget was extra tight this year thanks to the economy, so no replacement computers for anyone the past two years..

We actually get the same amount, it's funny, i've never met anyone else who gets that much. Normally, it's 2-3 weeks at the most. We upgrade machines every 4 years, and we're not due for one of those for another two. Spent mine this year on virtualizing our servers.

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