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Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
: $65.00/hour for doing general factory repairs Organ service is $129, which includes up to 2 hours labor and 25 miles total on the truck. After that minimum charge, which keeps me from arguing with the customer over a 10 minute job figuring out he had it plugged into a light dimmer and THAT was making the LOUD HUM on it, my rates are $70/hr and 70c/mile. From the comments I get from manufacturers wanting me to go do warranty work for them, I'm way lower than the big cities. It's been a comfortable living since 1986, full time since 1988. If I'm off on Tuesday, I spend my time day trading stocks on crashing/crashed companies, much on the pink sheets. I bought Worldcom (MCI) the bankrupt communications company at 6c/share and chickened out at 22c/share, trying not to cry when it finally got to 32c/share before going to Zero for the last time. I saved a copy of the stock certificate they were forced to send me for 180,000 shares....(c;] Recently, I bought Wachovia at $1.94 when they went bankrupt and sold them for $6.48 after Wells Fargo, also now in financial trouble, bought the company for $7/share. I dumped the stock because I didn't want to get stuck with a falling Wells Fargo stock trade scheme that dropped after the deal. It was the right thing to do. No, I don't want to buy Ford or GM, thank you...... My biggest regret, in hindsight, was I didn't see any future in Micro$oft stock back when the company looked like this: http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/.../microsoft.jpg Look at them! Who the hell's gonna buy software from THEM?! That picture's on the wall as a reminder of how stupid I can be.....at very rare times. |
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