Arny Krueger wrote:

"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote:


"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote:


You forgot to include drug dealers and child pornographers.
They are self employed, too.


That figure is compiled by our government and does not include
illegal businesses.


...such as fraudulently posing as a competent computer technician.


Computers aren't rocket science, you know.


Well, building and repairing PCs isn't rocket science. The underlying
technology is exactly rocket science. It just that it's to the point where
it is packaged this well...

Perhaps that's the difference. I also grew up when you had to make
your computer out of a kit. I remember aligning floppy drives manually
and soldering new caps onto a board as normal repairs.

Now, it's all replace and forget. Nice, actually, due to the cost and
time savings, but the newer people in the field don't know how to do
the technical stuff when they have to.

Unfortunately, accoustics requires either:
1: technical knowledge that nobody on this group possesses. Engineering
and physics degrees and such. These are the people who build concert
halls and do the real speaker and electronics design. They can make a
deign from scratch and it works perfectly the first time, every time.

2:Testing and trail and error based upon rough extimates. That's the
rest of us. Build acoustic chambers, test designs, tweak with the
cabinets, and so on. Even the big companies do this in-house, as
the number of people who are truly in the #1 category are probably
less than a couple dozen in the entire world. Tend of thousands think
and wish they were, though.


I have no doubt that
Arny does a decent job at fixing computers. He seems to be
making a profit off of it, which is always the acid-test for
service-oriented businesses.


My business has always been profitable, but it's been a lot of hard work
with a mediocre return on effort and investment.

But thanks for trying to straighten sockpuppet Yustabe out. Mission
Impossible.

I wonder what Greg's customer referral rate will be? Lol.