26 Dec
2005
26 Dec
'05
8:54 p.m.
On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:55 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
That's why I was wondering about that too, because I did make my living doing
that sort of thing, from the early 1970s to the point when we closed our
shop up back in 1992. There are a few contexts (industrial, etc.) where a
living can be made doing that sort of thing, but they are few and far
between as far as I've been able to find.
Not fun having a useless skillset... :-(
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
So it's
very hard to pick any favorites or villains. The one constant =
in
all this technology change is:=20
there is a very good living to be made repairing computers and =
electronics.
Can i just check that you're in the same universe as the rest of us? And
preferably on the same planet too.
Because round here there is no living to be made repairing stuff. People
will not pay for repairs (not even on classic machines, or on
valuable/well-made machines, or...).
Maybe you can make a living board-swapping at random, and charging a bit of
that, but not for doing proper repairs.