I've tried to coach and train people how to form their own business. There is a lot to it, advertising, scheduling, invoicing, money handling, parts supply, and so on. I've met many people who are worker bees, but who will never be self employed. . Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus
When I hear someone say they can't find a job I want to slap them upside the head and scream at them, "Don't you know how to do anything?!" There is work out there if you ever bothered to learn how technology works and how to keep it running. I repair stuff I've never seen before because I know how things work, I know who to ask and I can communicate with tech support over the phone. Last summer, me and JH drove to Tupelo, MS several times because the energy management system at a drug store wasn't working and Billy Bob HVAC tried to hook it up but wandered off mumbling to himself. I followed the instructions from the energy management system company tech support to hook the wiring up to the rooftop package units and headed back home to Alabamastan. We got a call the next day that it was hot in the office and the remote monitoring showed high temperatures and no current draw by the compressors. We traveled back to Tupelo and I started a study of the control system for the rooftop package units. Me and JH, two old disabled guys climbed a 20' interior ladder onto a roof in 105F weather where we got 2nd degree burns from all the metal we touched up there. I hooked my gauges up to the Trane commercial package unit and manually operated it and found nothing wrong with the compressor or refrigerant charge. I spent 5 minutes looking at the diagram and control system before yelling WTF!, "What's The Function!" I had never worked on that particular Trane model which had a proprietary digital control system that worked with a proprietary Trane digital thermostat. In order to get it to talk to a standard thermostat which is the language spoken by the energy management system, the unit needed an optional Trane circuit board which allowed it to speak standard thermostat. A quick loud WTF call to corporate to get the control board shipped and we returned to that darned hot roof a few days later to install the circuit board and everything worked as desired. Billy Bob HVAC Company was clueless about energy management control systems and I've had to repair a number of the evil things all over the place while yelling at corporate because they got some dumbass to improperly install the equipment to start with. That's basically the kind of thing me and JH wind up doing on a regular basis. I wound up going behind an AT&T tech today to get a phone line back up at an auto parts store. I uploaded the paperwork an hour ago. o_O
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