A businessman who spent more than 25 years in the food service industry has traded in his pallets for cell phone repair tools.
Petar Ostojic moved to Croatia to Canada in the early 1990s and has always been fascinated with technology and primarily he had a fascination with video cameras. He still owns a VHS format Toshiba video camera that is over 30 years old.
Ostojic, who is a volunteer camera operator for YourTV's North Bay Battalion games, started looking at the idea of taking his techie interests to the next level; iPhones and fixing screens. So his small in-home business iPhonescreenfix.ca was born.
Ostojic did not go to some tech school to study how to repair iPhones, he learned to do it all on his own while doing his own research. He says it took him four years of studying to get to the point where he could be a legitimate iPhone repairman.
"You have to know every single diagnostic and troubleshooting and stuff like that. I figured out everything on my own and I decided to open up my own business," he said.
"I started slowly and I just got busier and busier and busier. Facebook actually helped out big time you know. It has been like a breakthrough, it is kind of nice."
Ostojic retired two years ago. He says this new adventure is not a hassle, it's his dream job.
"It is like a hobby for me as well," explained Ostojic.
"It is a lot better driving and what I used to do for a living. This is unbelievable, it is such an easy job."
Ostojic also claims customers are surprised at how quickly he can get the repairs done.
"It is a high demand for sure and people are shocked when I tell them I can fix it in 30 minutes," he said.
"Nobody believes that I am that fast."
Despite being retired, Ostojic believes the sky is the limit where his business can go.
"You just never know, I told my brother maybe he will be working for me one day," he said.
"If it gets that busy I will hire him to work with me."
