THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 10, 1995 TAG: 9506100016
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Editorial
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Technologically hip youths looking to make a buck might consider teaching their technologically challenged adult neighbors how to tape TV shows with their VCRs.
Surely there's money to be made from the multitudes unable to employ their VCRs for anything other than playing videotapes. Among these are consumers to whom VCR manuals are as opaque as Mayan hierographs. As often as not, they have yet to set their clocks on the blinking things.
Yet teens and preteens often manipulate VCRs as expertly as the technicians who dream them up. Smart youths who let neighbors know of their availability as independent VCR instructors/consultants at, say $10 an hour, $25 max, money back if instruction fails, might pick up considerable cash.
Young computer mavens might also. Countless Americans buy IBMs and Apples only to find themselves struggling to make them work. Help may be a telephone call away, but how much better to have a human being at hand to provide personal instruction and advice. Enterprising youths could exploit this vast market for their own gain and their clients'. by CNB