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05-05-2012, 11:17 AM
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Senior Member
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what's your niche?
What do you specialize in?
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05-05-2012, 11:19 AM
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Registered Member
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Location: N.E.
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Residential old work. I can do a new house blindfolded and keep up with the best of them as well.
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05-05-2012, 11:20 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Kansas
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High end residential remodel and repair.
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05-05-2012, 11:23 AM
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Phosphate Coated
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Location: California
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Nowadays service work. But what ever calls during the week. Residential, or commercial.
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05-05-2012, 11:30 AM
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Resi Service Electrician
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: California
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Service, mainly resi.
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05-05-2012, 11:34 AM
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Location: maryland
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pipe...pull...terminate...pipe...pull...terminate. ..ect...last couple years anyway...for the most part.
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05-05-2012, 11:39 AM
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Location: New England
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris1971
What do you specialize in?
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Curmudgeonry
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05-05-2012, 11:44 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Leesburg, VA
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Anything you don't want to, can't be bothered to or can't do.
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Leesburg, VA
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05-05-2012, 11:47 AM
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animal lover /rat bastard
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: central east coast us
Posts: 7,061
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hot tub
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05-05-2012, 11:51 AM
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1,000,000th Poster
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Portland
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I'm a good troubleshooter, but so are a lot of industrial/service guys.
I think my specialty is being very well rounded. I can't do one thing better than anyone else, but I can do a whole lot of different things as good as anyone else.
-John
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05-05-2012, 11:55 AM
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Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: the heartland
Posts: 659
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circuit design and milk machining
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05-05-2012, 12:00 PM
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Heavily Armed Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Fascistchusetts
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris1971
What do you specialize in?
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Electrical work... 
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05-05-2012, 12:00 PM
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Senior Member
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Along with curmudgeonry I also know large retail and supermarkets.
It is not exciting but with anything the more you get into it the more you realize there is a lot too it. Beyond knowing the actual electric work. refrigeration and systems they use you need to learn to know what is and is not important to these customers.
Two key points I have learned, our sleep is not important and the ability to sell product under any circumstances is important.
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05-05-2012, 12:01 PM
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ET Road Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Long Island, N.Y.
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Anything connected by wire I can make $$$$$ on except repairing appliances..
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05-05-2012, 12:18 PM
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Senile Member
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Location: Honolulu
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Separation of customers and their money in the bank.......
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05-05-2012, 12:23 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: phx Az
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Quote:
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I literally exclusively put hot tubs in for almost 20 years. Jacuzzi & Hot Springs mostly. At my peak I was the referred installer for almost 20 different retail spa stores (maybe 1/2 of the metropolitan area spa stores at the time) here in Phoenix. There probably are just a little over 10 stores left these days.
I'm out of it now (long story).
If I ever see another hot tub it'll be too soon.
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05-05-2012, 12:26 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Ohio
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I'm pretty good at troubleshooting industrial equipment. It's been a while though.
Now, I just teach and write software. I'm very good at that - at least I think so.
I'm terrible at marketing - if I were good, I would have sold a few thousand applications by now instead of a few hundred.
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05-05-2012, 12:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: us
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Old houses, resi service, light commercial
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05-05-2012, 12:34 PM
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Pure Evil
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Presque Isle, Maine
Posts: 5,268
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Instrumentation, telemetry, communications, PLCs, off the grid solar powered systems.
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05-05-2012, 12:40 PM
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Registered Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: N.E.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by B4T
Anything connected by wire I can make $$$$$ on except repairing appliances..
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But what kind of work do you do the most?
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