Hunting for a new job in Asheville isn’t easy.
Sadly the IT tech jobs have migrated to the “GeekSquad” level. Wonder if I put “IT hardware and middleware genius extraordinaire and wizardly wizard” on my resume.
Maybe a % of repaired computers & Operating Systems. Mine would be like… 98% buying nothing to repair it… 100% having to buy $50-$200 of hardware. Maybe I can talk Allyn into putting a computer repair shop next to BestBuy and CircuitCity again.
GeekSquad kids would be about 10% … any higher and BestBuy looses money. “Er sorry mam, your mainboard capacatior has deflipped, $900 to repair it or we can just get a new computer over there!… and we’ll ‘transfer’ your data for the low price of $150, and another $100 to remove the spyware and ‘extra’ software we previously factory installed on that new computer. ( Think Im making that up? Exaggerating? You’ll be surprised)
Maybe Ill get back into training or management… dunno.
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Oof. Yeah, I had to go to the GeekSquad before, and they weren’t a very big help – I know computers, but the fellow helping me seemed to believe that I was incapable of such a thing. I remember telling him in the beginning that I knew the problem had to do with my hard-drive, and after mucking around for an hour… he reinforced what I said, tried to sell something to me, and left.
There’s a reason I switched to macs.
Good luck in your job hunt though – are you talking about starting your own shop in this entry here? I think you’d do a very good job, especially if you’re better than the retail competition!
-Segan
Comment by segan123 June 26, 2008 @ 11:16 am