Over the last year, I’ve made quite a bit of new business working on Laptops, thanks in no small part to Les Jones blogging about it. It’s easy, really, and most people just can’t be bothered fixing Laptop hardware problems.
But something’s been really irking me about it.
The availability of parts is putting a real kink in the works. Every part I try and order lately is actually out of stock, despite the vendors saying they have upwards of twenty-five. I’ll make an order, only to be replied, some four to five days later, that they’re out of stock. Thanks, asshats!
I had one laptop for a month waiting on a motherboard. I returned it, busted, last week to Cumberland Gap.
I’ve had one for two weeks now waiting on a cooling fan that never seems to show up.
The phrase “Make it happen.”, is one of my well known business mantras. This doesn’t mean to make it happen all the time. I cannot function when I work all the time and neither should anyone else. It is a wonderful practice to also make time for one’s self. Finding the balance between the two is the key to success.
I was reminded by this while one of my colleagues was celebrating his birthday last Saturday. While he and I speak about our business ventures to each other quite frequently, we both live our own lives and carry on through seperate lines of work outside of these other ventures. This night in particular, we were both celebrating. In the midst of the celebration he brought up some business I have known both of these people for a number of years. Thankfully, they both took my advice and the celebrating continued.
While there are somethings that I may say to try to do all the time, there is a time and a place for everthing under the sun.
