[TriLUG] Off topic: Side work

[Michael Kimsal]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure quite  a few of you do side work so I wanted to ask two questions:
>
> 1)  is there any good place to look for people that need work done?  I'm
> not
> looking for web work which I can find all over Craig's List, I am more so
> looking for networking or pc, possibly server setup stuff/break-fix.  My
> skill level is not as advanced as some of you, but I'm at a point where I
> can start picking up side jobs and figuring things out on my own.  also, I
> cant do this work during the day, so I'm sure that will rule out looking
> for
> work from some small businesses.
>

Networking at various events has led to some word-of-mouth referrals for me,
and I suspect it's the same for many others.



>
> 2)  I was just offered 10 bucks to re-image 4 computers from a daycare (no,
> not even 10 bucks a pop)  how many of you receive insulting offers like
> this... or is it just me?
>
>
It's not just you.  While understandable that a daycare *might* not have
funds for standard-rate IT work, that is still somewhat insulting.  It would
have been better to ask you to do the work for free in exchange for
something else (pro-active referrals to other businesses the daycare works
with, for example).  And perhaps you could offer to do it for free in
exchange for those referrals, or a written letter of recommendation, or
something of similar value to help jumpstart your sidework work.


Good luck.


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