Pam Pibus

So I opened up the front of the dryer and I used my hair dryer on it and a week later it broke down.

Pam Pibus, host of Fix It 101 on MPB Think Radio here in Jackson, Mississippi.

I have gotten phone calls from Korea.

I guess they must be listening online.

I don't understand all the technology.

I just show up and they broadcast the show.

Oh, girl, I grew up in it.

Yeah, my daddy was a contractor, so we grew up renovating homes and building houses.

I grew up in the day where women definitely weren't doing this kind of thing.

So getting into the industry was a bit of a challenge for me.

I actually started doing home inspections because I was unemployed.

Okay.

Yeah.

And my mother saw an article in the paper and she's like, Pammy, you could do that because you grew up with that.

So I went and took the test and I went to the class and took the test and came back and I thought, well, why don't I build a business around that?

I think the people in my generation, and I was born in 1962, so you do the math.

I'll just go ahead and tell you I'm 64.

I think folks in my generation, we're kind of used to hiring somebody to come fix it.

The problem has been sometimes who's the competent person to hire?

And we have problems getting competent people to come in.