And now, they're paying it forward, sharing their wisdom on YouTube and guiding whole new generation toward appliance repair ownership and success during time of unprecedented demand spurred by COVID-19 pandemic..
Mike Sneed, now the owner and operator of North Carolina-based Sneed Appliance Service, learned the ropes of appliance repair working afternoon and weekend shifts as repairman at Sears...
I hated it and that's where the money was going to be, Sneed says.
When I was college and working at Sears as appliance repairman, I always had money.
Sneed, found unemployed.
Sneed had studied electrical wiring school, and figured that he had enough hours racked up to sit for the contractor's license test...
I started studying for the test, and that's Sneed smiles as he describes the moment he decided to start his own appliance repair business, with the goal of achieving complete professional and financial independence..
But he could not shake his anger at what he calls America, so he continued to pursue his passion for appliance repair as side hustle...
At lunchtime, I'd go change clothes, go do couple of service calls then afternoon, I'd go to service calls, Sneed recalls..
It got to the point that before I went to work, I was making more money doing appliance repair than I was going to make all day as engineer, even at Intel..
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