To a 3rd grader, I am basically Lebron James at basketball.
Fair enough, but you actually played basketball for four years at school so you had some experience and were coached in the game. You were taught and developed some level of skill. To a 3rd grader you might be Michealangelo at painting but that's a rather sad way of comparing yourself. Thing is when it comes to pro-basketball you don't have the skills to be employed by those that actually matter because 3rd graders don't hire people nor have the life experience of being able to make an informed comparison between you and anyone else. Using 3rd graders as an example of how skilled you are shows how inexperienced you are in business. The target group of people who need their homes painting are not 3rd graders, they are adult home owners who are unlikely to be excited about somebody paint their home who has little or no experience in the field. Try and be honest with yourself instead of being arrogant. If you owned a home that needed repairs would you hire someone to replace the roof who had never done it before? If your electrical wiring was old and had to be replaced would you hire someone who had never been employed to do any of that before to do it for you? Go out and paint, I don't care, but just make sure when that paint starts falling off next year because you didn't prep properly or use the correct products that you go back and fix it.
Once again, and I don't mean to sound arrogant, but you just don't know enough about my situation to have this adamant of an opinion. As I said in my earlier post, you don't know how I advertise, what I tell my clients, or the extent of my skill set. You simply don't have enough information to put something like this together.
Also, I think my 3rd grade - me - Lebron James analogy still holds true. I am significantly more skilled than the non painter at this moment in time. I'm confident in saying that.
You bring up an interesting phrase though. You said "target group". The target group that is wanting to hire a painter varies A TON. Most people know there is a difference between a licensed career painter and someone in my position. I would also say that, for the majority of my clients, they have come out benefiting a great deal by using me as opposed to a liscenced career painter.
If you don't want to help then that is your choice. I just don't see the need for the whole "quit paining. you don't belong here." mentality when you don't know what type of person I am, where my skills are at, and what my personal situation is.
