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What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Computer related:

  • Don't be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs...
  • Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
  • Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.

Buying stuff:

  • There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
  • Buck buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
  • Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Don’t be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs…

Disagree, while my family didn't pay me in cash, they made me food and such. They took care of me.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Depends on who it is. I'll spend 10 hours on a pc issue for my mom but if it's a cousin and it takes more than 10 minutes I'll either say it's outside of my knowledge or straight up say I would have to charge because of time commitment.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Depends on your level of agency as well. As a tech savvy teenager I felt I wasn't allowed to say no to my family asking for computer help. Now I follow what you outlined, close family and friends, free. Not so close family, 10.00 to look at it. 20.00 if it's difficult.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That's fair. I look at it for free if they bring it over but I charge 25 with a 3 hour minimum if there's any work. Most people say no thanks, I helped an older lady replace her hard drive and didn't actually charge her even though she wanted to pay since it really was just 5 minutes to order a new one and 10 to change it out once it got here. She gave me some homemade cookies so it was a good deal for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha did you get woken up in the middle of the night to fix things too?

    I had the opposite solution though. I just threw money from my summer job at computing infrastructure until they had things that wouldn't often break. Maybe a bit silly, but it did eventually work!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Same. I owe a lot to my parents. The stable nurturing home they provided was a huge leg up in life. Showing them a thing or two on the computer was the least I could do.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The whole thing has degrees. I very much like to help my mother to update her browser. I really don't want to help choosing a printer to my cousin's second brother's wife AND install it during Christmas when we are home and I want to just chill with my close family.

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