£300 for 10 mins work!
about 7 years ago, a friend of mine asked me to go to one of his clients in Salisbury, as I lived nearby and I guess he has no one available.
All I was asked to do was add a printer to the network workgroup. For this he would pay me £30 an hour (as it would be basically 10 mins work if that, + travel time so probably £60 - £90)
When I got there I found they were all in a domain, so of course putting them in a workgroup would mess things up, even I knew this. SO I rang my mate up, he said..'Oh they don't really need to be on a domain, we just set it up that way, switch it to a workgroup it'll all be fine'
Which I did.
Cue the receptionist among others saying...Hey my email isn't working...Or internet access.
The printer worked though!
Sadly cutting them off the domain also caused the server based in london to fall over. So I sat there twiddling my thumbs for a further 9 hours while they fixed the server and I could put them back on a domain..and the printer still worked!
Good thing was they couldn't blame me I decided to do exactly as I was asked :p
Easiest £300 ever.
(Asharin Stabby stab stab, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 16:48, 2 replies)

so basically
You went to one of your mates clients buildings, Fucked up their network and walked off? And he called you because he thought you had some IT knowledge? Give up now, you haven't according to that post.
(Kip, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:56, closed)

I never claimed to have IT Knowledge...
and indeed beyond basic home networking I had no knowledge, though I do now, mainly because that incident prompted me to learn more. I didn't point out (in the op) that this was 15 years ago and I was 20 or so and had NO IT qualifications at all.

However my friend seemed to think that was enough, hence why I went..and did exactly as asked..after clarifying that was what he wanted. I even pointed out over the phone before going that I only had knowledge of home networking (basically workgroups no domains) and he said that's fine, that's all you need.
It all turned out good though, got it sorted in the end and it prompted me to learn more(and promptly never use)

As for give up now? Yes I did..despite doing an A+ , MCDST and MCSE since then, I didn't like working in IT, same as I dislike any customer facing enviroment..because people are cunts and it's not good form to tell them so to their faces :D The only IT I do these days is fixing my mums windoze install whenever my brother visits and breaks it or the mother-in-law but in her case she breaks it herself. I can call them idiots and get away with it :D
(Asharin Stabby stab stab, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 20:25, closed)