List, Have you all seen the listing in the Help Wanted section of the new Journal for the position vacancy at the University of Richmond? Is it just me? or does it seem like recent ads for positions have to use the promise of piles of extra outside work to entice a technician's interest? The ad reads that a "hard working technician can earn up to a six-figure salary...". I don't know the base salary, but if it's around the average of the salaries I've learned, by my estimates it would take around 70 hours per week to earn that kind of money. Am I just naive to what's going on out there? Are you guys working those kinds of hours? Do you have families? Do you ever see them? If you don't have families, would you do this if you had one? Am I dreaming to think that a CAUT piano technician ought to be able to support a family AND get to see them on occasion? Other ads I've seen for CAUT positions in high cost of living areas haven't been above $40K, and most in the mid 20s to low 30s. Is this for real? We're trying to get some improvement made here to the salary which after all the deductions simply won't support the cost of living here for one, much less a whole family. I need to know if I'm wasting my time and I need to ask my brother in law for a job selling cars. Jeff Jeff Tanner Piano Technician School of Music University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803)-777-4392 (phone)
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