Local Nerd, In-Home and Remote Tech Support in Ardmore (contract)
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Role details
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Requirements
You live in or near Ardmore and you plan to stay.
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You are patient with people who are frustrated and embarrassed about tech.
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You can explain things in plain English without making anybody feel silly.
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You are comfortable with the everyday stuff: computers, phones, Wi-Fi and
networks, smart home, TVs and printers.
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Reliable, presentable transportation.
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You are okay with a standard background check.
Benefits & conditions
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- Referral program
- Flexible schedule
Full job description
OkieNerd is friendly tech help for folks who don’t speak computer, and we are
expanding across Oklahoma. We are looking for a dependable, good-hearted person
to be the face of OkieNerd in Ardmore. Set your own availability, keep the
majority of every booking, and help your neighbors with the tech that drives
them nuts.
// THE STORY SO FAR
OkieNerd is up and running in Lawton, helping real people with their everyday
tech every week. We recently launched Nerd on Call, our membership for folks
who want a Nerd on standby, and our iPhone and Android apps are live on the App
Store and Google Play. With the playbook proven at home and the apps in
customers’ hands, we are taking OkieNerd across the whole state, and Ardmore is
one of the twenty markets opening up.
// WHAT THE WORK LOOKS LIKE IN ARDMORE
The I-35 corridor through Carter and Love counties is a mix you do not see
anywhere else in the state: town neighborhoods, lake places around Lake Murray,
and a lot of houses on acreage where the nearest neighbor is a quarter mile
off. Coverage work dominates here. So does helping people who split their time
between here and somewhere else keep both places working without having to
think about it.
As the Nerd for Ardmore and South-Central Oklahoma, you would cover your own
city and everything within 75 miles of it, in three travel bands. That reaches
Ardmore, Marietta, Madill, Sulphur, Davis, Duncan, and Gainesville and Nocona
in Texas.
See the exact ground you would cover on the map here:
https://okienerd.com/local-nerds#markets=ardmore
// WHAT A LOCAL NERD ACTUALLY DOES
No server rooms, no enterprise jargon. You are helping regular folks with the
stuff they use every day, patiently and in plain English.
Remote help
Hop on a quick call and walk someone through their phone, laptop, email,
Wi-Fi or smart-TV trouble. Available across the whole state today.
In-home visits
Show up, sit down next to someone, and fix it in person. This is where the
trust gets built.
Travel calls
Cover the nearby towns that don’t have their own Nerd yet, and grow your
own territory.
Every booking is paid up front through the app, so there is never an awkward
money conversation at the door. You just do great work.
// WHAT IT PAYS
You keep 60% of the labor billed on every completed job, and 100% of every tip,
with no commission taken on tips. Paid on every completed booking.
Remote session, 30 minutes ……….. $23.40 to you ($46.80/hr equivalent)
In-person visit, within 25 miles ….. $66.00 per hour to you
In-person visit, 25 to 50 miles …… $78.00 per hour to you
In-person visit, 50 to 75 miles …… $87.00 per hour to you
Longer drives pay more because you keep your share of the whole band rate. Which
drives you take is set by your own travel preferences, so you are never assigned
a two-hour round trip you did not opt into.
// HOW IT WORKS
- You set your own availability. Open up the times that suit you in your own
calendar. A few evenings a week or full-time, that part is your call.
- Bookings come to you automatically. When you’re marked available, customers
book your open time directly, with sensible buffer times built in around
each visit. You’re not chasing work or cherry-picking jobs.
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Paid per completed booking. No clock to punch, no salary, no minimums.
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You’re independent. Your own tools, any reliable and presentable vehicle,
and free to work elsewhere whenever you like.
- We bring the customers. OkieNerd handles the brand, the booking and the
payments, so you focus on the fix instead of finding work.
// YOU’RE ON A TEAM
You run your own schedule, but you are never on an island. You’ll work inside our
Google Workspace with your own OkieNerd email and calendar, we get the team
together every week over Google Meet to share wins and swap fixes, and now and
then we meet up in person, because the best teams actually know each other.
// GET IN EARLY
The first Nerd in a market becomes a Founding Nerd. Ardmore does not have one
yet. Getting in early makes you the market leader, which means higher priority
in the queue as your local team grows. Teams grow with demand and with your
availability, so the Nerds who show up and deliver get first crack at the
volume. You are not just taking calls, you are building your corner of
OkieNerd.
Being straight with you about timing: in-person visits in Ardmore open once
there is a Nerd on the ground to answer the door, and remote help is available
across the whole state today. A Founding Nerd here starts with remote work and
opens the in-person side of their own market.
// HOW TO JOIN
Start to finish usually takes about one to two weeks, depending on scheduling and
how fast your background check clears.
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Apply online. About five minutes. No resume needed.
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We read it. A real person, not a filter.
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Interview. A video chat to meet you and walk through the role together.
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Background check, and we pay for it. Only after we have talked. Our
customers invite us into their homes, so everyone is screened. You enter
your details directly with our screening provider, never with us.
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In-person meet-up. We come to your area to meet face to face.
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Onboarding, and you’re live. Your OkieNerd account, Nerd HQ and your
calendar, plus a short orientation, and you’re ready for your first booking.
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