About 25 years ago, I applied for a job with “Dr Disk” on the Gold Coast, Australia. I already had 4 years of IT Service Desk/Tech room experience as well as honors in one of the few computing colleges that existed at that time. The job was mobile computer service to both companies and home users.
The job was offered at $40k/year and included a car, with the only requirement being having the experience needed but Microsoft Certification Preferred.
I was only 21 at the time, and arrived at the interview with the owner. The office was nice and the tech area was a bit cramped, but we sat down to talk about the job and it all seemed pretty positive. He then asked if I was ok with going to a few sites with him to see if I would fit in.
During the day, we went to 3 of his bigger customers who all had fairly strange and interesting issues. One of them had a Word virus, I don't remember the others, but I found each issue fairly quickly and solved all of the problems in a professional manner. Note that these are problems his other 3 IT guys has not been able to fix and they did not take me long at all.
At the end of the day he dropped me off and everything had been great. I didn't mind showing what I could do in order to get the job and he said he was impressed and would likely offer me the job.
Next Monday I was OFFERED THE JOB – YES! and then….. He offered $5000 less than advertised, and said the car might come later on .
I declined – Know your worth !
Cheers