This week, I have had to fix 3 computers for stupid people. I made a nice chunk of change, so I can’t complain.
What I don’t understand is the mentality of these people. Instead of paying me to fix your computer (which will only take a little bit of your time!), you’d rather pay me an insane amount to fix it for you.
I tried to offer to even show them how to fix their own computers! Simple shit here, folks: “how do I install a new networking card?” and “can you install a sound card on my computer?” The best one being “There’s too much spyware on my computer and now it doesn’t run. Can you help me?”
I want them to learn for themselves. I mean, even though I am making money off of them, it seems a little immoral to encourage these women to not learn anything. I am enabling their ignorance.
I think they regard their computers as they do their cars: I don’t want to know how it works – I just want it to work.
Great idea, ladies. Let other people rape your wallets when you profess intentional ignorance.
I could make decent money doing this on my free time. But I have better things to do – like knitting and cooking. It’s more a waste of my time as I see it. And it really depresses me.
Call me when you have a real problem. For now, I’ll learn everything I can and I’ll get as dirty as possible – just to be able to rely on myself – regardless of my gender.
((Disclaimer: I rarely run into men who whine and bitch about not wanting to learn to fix something. Maybe I just have a strange amount of savvy men around me? I don’t know. It always seems to be the women I know or work with who just don’t want to learn jack shit.))
