Moniqueca Sims, owner SSG Appliance AcademyFor the first time, she threw insight into the repair industry, meeting a man who worked in space. “He worked all the time, seven days a week,” recalls Sims, “so I walked with him only to spend time with him. I saw how easy it was to fix it, and he quickly repaired them.”
Image loan: Courtesy of SSG Appliance Academy. Moniqueca Sims.
Sims believes in “Working wiser and not harder” and he got here up with the idea of hiring technicians to assist the man with whom she died with repair conversations. She did it, but when she didn’t decelerate, she finished her own equipment repair company.
However, while running this business, Sims lost a significant amount of a part of the purchase. Many individuals who hired did not likely know how one can fix the devices – and would simply change the part in part in search of a match.
So Sims took matters again. She enrolled in an online course to search out out about the repair of devices and began to operate work, even taking her children.
“When you fix something, it increases you every time you do it.”
Despite this, Sims knew that there have to be a higher technique to train and employ business development technicians, so she once again decided to do it: she founded the SSG Appliance Academy, which provides practical training based on the basics of profession in the equipment repair industry in Atlanta in 2019.
“I saw the repair of devices that still gives,” says Sims. “When you leave, when you fix something, it increases you, every time you do it. It’s not a grunt. It’s a good job.”
When Sims went with her daughter, she discovered that many clients were moms others at home, who breathed a sigh of relief, when they realized that they’d not be alone with a male worker. Knowing this and seeing first -hand repairing devices that increase trust, Sims undertook to introduce more women into the industry.
Total revenues from the device repair industry achieved an estimated $ 6.3 billion in 2023, but women constitute lower than 3% of home appliances, based on data from data from Consumers.
Sims decided to cooperate with shelters for the development of the Appliance SSG Academy and offer women a profitable profession path. Although there was a lot of interest, the hostels had no funds for this. Thus, Sims was approved for subsidies through the Act on innovations and the possibilities of labor (WIOA).
Financing helps women with low income, insufficient or unemployed and men to finish the SSG Appliance Academy and “Distract their lives”, says Sims.
SSG Academy Classes normally write from eight to 10 students. She had three women in the last course. In the past, the Sims often needed to participate in events and persuade women to return to classes; He says that the oral word helps them find it.
“You still have to prove yourself [as a woman] in this industry. “
Sims is impatiently expected that much more women use the Appliance SSG Academy, despite the challenges that will be a woman in space.
“You still have to prove yourself [as a woman] In this industry, not just for customers – says Sims. “You must prove yourself to everyone who works in the industry.”
Sims is also excited, seeing that more people jump into the recovery industry, noting that trading learning can help people earn more than they could get a four -year scientific degree.
“Repairing devices can really help in changing the lives of individuals,” says the founder.
“You need to learn your craft from the inside.”
For other women interested in starting their own career or companies in the equipment repair industry, Sims has a simple but necessary advice: sign up for a program that can help you learn everything you need to know about trade.
“You need to learn your craft from the inside,” says Sims. “Many technicians in this field are now studying at work, so they turn out to be partial parts because they do not learn how one can properly diagnose and solve problems.
Sims notes that there will likely be many obstacles along the way, but encourages everyone interested in repairing the learning equipment to remain on the course – because “it is a very satisfying career and business.”
This article is a part of our current series of women entrepreneurs, emphasizing the stories, challenges and triumphs of running a company as a woman.
Moniqueca Sims, owner SSG Appliance AcademyFor the first time, she threw insight into the repair industry, meeting a man who worked in space. “He worked all the time, seven days a week,” recalls Sims, “so I walked with him only to spend time with him. I saw how easy it was to fix it, and he quickly repaired them.”
Image loan: Courtesy of SSG Appliance Academy. Moniqueca Sims.
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