They had me in the south east part of town today. I started at an apartment complex. It took me forever to get there because the roads were terrible and the traffic was as well. The guy here was old and grizzled. He lived here alone. He told me he was a student. He was one semester away from getting his degree in welding and fabrication. I thought that was interesting. He said he had 6 semesters involving every type of welding you can think of. Now he's on his last class, which is pipe welding. I was here to install Internet and TV. The job didn't take long at all.
Next I had another install. This was another apartment complex. There was a little Korean woman here. She was obviously moving in, there wasn't much in the way of furniture here. I was here to install Internet and TV as well. The job went by pretty quick. Then I went to lunch.
After lunch I went to a house further north. There was a short round Hispanic man here. My notes said there was a couple channels missing. But the guy didn't know what channels they were. I looked around and outside found the longest line to a house I had ever seen. I couldn't even see the end. I hoped that wasn't the problem, and thankfully it wasn't. It turned out to be the small cable on the back of the box.
The next job was a apartment complex further east. In the next town in fact. The door was answered by a young woman. She said the problem was the ethernet cable kept coming out of the computer. It needed to be replaced. It also sat rather loosely in the computer. So you had to wiggle it to get an internet connection. I told her to get the port in her computer fixed. It's a brand new apple and I knew it was under warranty.
The next job was in the next apartment complex over. A large man answered the door. His Internet wasn't working at all. My first suspicion was that it was the modem itself, but the cable to the modem looked suspicious. So I replaced the cable first and sure enough that fixed it. He was happy and I moved on.
I then went to my last job. This was in a ghetto looking apartment complex. I was here to install the Internet. There was a young Hispanic guy here with his kid. He wanted to set his computer up in his bedroom. But the only outlet was in the living room so I convinced him that he needed to move it to the living room. He already had a signal which made my job easy. I finished the install and went home.