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my first post in these forums:

I basicaly blagged my way in to this work about 16 years ago, I used to watch my dad changing brushes and pumps and bearings on our old hoover and hotpoint machines that were put through the mill a bit as I was one of nine kids.

I left school and did an C&G in electronics and went off to repair TV’s and vids etc… I got fed up with this and saw an add in the Job Centre wanting an engineer to repair Washing machine, I went for the interview, recited what i remembererd from my dad doing and got the job, this was all workshop bassed and little or no customer contact was needed.

so I took a week off holiday from TVs and started the job planning to dissapear back to TVs if I got found out, and went about it like this, if it dripped, i changed it, if it didn’t spin i’d check brushes and if not that, short out the module to test if it was that. due to my electronics background I used to fix modules instead of buying new, (boss was well happy), pumps changed where required.

I found 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} was common sense and 10{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} product knowlage, 16 years on i’m still fixing machines and my product knowledge is pretty damn good if I do say so myself. I work for myself and am happy, I limit my work to that I can do in half a day. which is about 4 or 5 calls and if you average £25 profit per call 6 days a week you’ll see it’s It’s a very good trade to get into, it’s not as hard as it’s made out to be, but if your dealing with customers property in their own homes, you NEED TO KNOW what your doing, I was lucky, a started off on 2nd hand shop stock.

sortof off topic but just wanted to add my 2 pennies worth

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