Where to Find Paid Consultants for Easy Stuff?

All I need is someone to set up a VPN, set up my network, etc. Very simple things for the IT savy but something which takes millions of years for someone like me.

I've talked to IT services but they don't apparently work on things this easy and quick.

Does anyone know where I would go for help for something like this? A few hours of work. I've been trying to set up things myself but it's just taking forever. For example, just setting up a VPN is taking forever. I have no clue if I am even doing it correctly.

Hi there

why not invest in a little time and try and do it yourself -- loads of google stuff and on a home computer you can do it all in your own time and doesn't cost anything either. Also learning new stuff in your own time frame can be quite fun. I don't think though the so called "Millenial lot" and younger have much patience --if it can't be done in 5 mins then pay somebody else to do it.

Another advantage is that you can then easily spot the "B/S'ers" and avoid getting ripped off etc etc. if you really can't do it yourself. Just put on to a piece of paper (yes in days of smart phones paper and pen still exist !!) exactly what you want to do and then gradually get info from google or elsewhere and then try it. If you get it all working -- great feeling of achieving something and you perhaps can charge others for doing it !!!

Cheers
jimbo

You could try asking friends and family if they know anyone. There may be some listing for networking and/or computer shops in the phone book that may be able to help. As for doing it yourself by looking for how-to's, I would only do that if you feel confident enough to try it.

Trust me but I've spent A LOT of time, trying to do these things that seem simple for you. I've spent a week, just trying to set up a VPN that connects two remote networks. After a long time, trying to figure this out, I realize that I need to have a static IP address or a domain name with a program that updates its dynamic ip address.

Here is one example of many that frustrates me but is probably simple for you guys. I need to input the ip address. But it doesn't state which or what type. The public ip address or the internal ip address? The VPN ip address? I try all 3 and nothing works. Then there is something else I might have done wrong so that means I have to try all 3 ip addresses when I change that "something else".

I have not just spent hours on my computer but weeks in pure time! And my computer still doesn't do what I need it to do.

I threw in the towel and realized that I was wasting so much of my time that I could be using to make money for my job or relaxing. It's not worth it! The Windows OS finally beat me bloody after about 1 year of trying to conquer it. I plead mercy. My pride is lost somewhere in the mass of wires that's scattered everywhere in my room.

Later this year, I was going to try to build my own computer but now I'm having second thoughts...