Hello Justaguy,
I won’t fame you on your thought, but if I can make you see the world from a different view perhaps I have done my job.
How did you begin to know everything there is to know about remote starter, alarm and audio? Surely you must have gotten it somewhere. I don’t think you got your knowledge from thin air. Along the way, books, friends, colleague, and lots of perseverance must have played a big part in getting you this far. So, why not do the same just as someone have done sharing their knowledge with you? It probably serves no purpose taking it to the grave in my opinion. If all the great minds before us keep their knowledge and invention to themselves I think we will still be hunting with spears and living in caves. Don’t you think?
“Are you trying to drum up work? Want to impress everyone with your vast knowledge? ...bored?”
No, just doing my little part in making the world little better place to be. And yes you will find the same people here doing much the same like myself on a regularly basis if time permits. At time it can be a little frustrating answering “stupid” questions as you may put it, but to the benefits of many who other may need the answers to the simplest of all questions.
“when it comes to anything technical, I usually stop after a bit and tell them that I make money because of knowledge that I have, and if I give it away to everyone, I am out of a job.”
An adage I have kept for a while is that what you teach to other today you will learn something new tomorrow. I have a million of technique questions from CUSTOMER asking me how to install a certain piece of equipment. I notice you call them “people”, but if you teach them how they will become your customer the next time they come back to buy from you again. When it come to handing out knowledge I will ask my customer to come back early in the morning before the shop open. I am less busy and can spend a lot more time with them. You will earn a bit less and spend a lot more time than if you have done it yourself, but in the end you will not be able contemplate on referral that you have gain versus the loss of your time. Yes, impress them with your knowledge so that they know you are the REAL DEAL. I don’t think it will induce a lot of confidence in you if you when to see your doctor and your doctor have to go back to his medical school note to confirm the diagnosis.
As for losing your job, how many people you know can put in a remote starter, starter or car audio in an hour or two? Maybe 10, 100, 1000, 10,000? How many cars are on the road in Canada? You do the math and I think you have to agree with me that you have worry less about earning and your job. Personally I think you have to worry more about the real issue and important things in your life like the earth quake which had happen on the other side of the world, the hurricane that just happen the south of us and the war that is still happening over in the middle east.
Copyrighted, don’t worry about this leave it to the lawyers to worry about, not unless you are trying to profit from it. Are you? If you are sharing your knowledge and are not profiting from it, don’t worry about it. We will have army of lawyers to stand behind you on this.
Installer forum, you are in one. You can probably tell at times the hobbyist, DYI and the Pros by their number of post. Velocity, auex, bobk, Kartuneman, gus1, mo12v, kgerry, and few other does know a thing or two about putting in a remote starter and alarm together. If they combine their knowledge I think they can also put a rocket ship to the moon as well.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.