Originally posted by Platypus
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Only an hour. Not really fair to ask the customer to pay for the time I spent fixing my equipment (monitor blew up, PC died etc etc. Had a day of it. Also this virus had me stumped so spent quite a bit of time googling.
The thinking is this. By attracting this sort of work I am making connections locally and picking up bigger jobs (this is actually working, I picked up a big server upgrade job after doing a good job for someone removing a virus)
Also, it does keep you current. Imagine if I was called out to de-ming a server riddled with viruses, experience counts.
Major loss on this job financially speaking, but knowledge gained and also a feeling of job satisfaction. Also the chap was well chuffed, understood it had been a sod and said there may well be further jobs in the pipeline from other family and friends (I beleive this, I try and see the good in people)
Other jobs go smoothly and what is billed as an hour can sometimes be done in 20 minutes, if things go your way. Comme si comme ca. It's when you stop trying you have real problems.
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