[CAUT] cutting departments

[johnparham at piano88.com]

Welcome to the club, Brother Ron... in eight days it makes one year ago
that I was working 50 hours a week for someone else, then Friday at 5:00
PM that business closed with no warning.  Now I advertise 24/7 trying to
create stability in my world!

Best of luck,
John Parham
Hickory, NC

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [CAUT] cutting departments
> From: Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:49 pm
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> 
> 
> I'm in that category now...  
> 
> I got my letter from the public school board a few weeks before school started telling me not to come in for the beginning of the school year.  I've been
> a full time instrument repair tech for 26 years for a large performing arts high school in Chicago.  The principal and chair still have hope of getting at
> least a part time position with benefits starting soon.  I consider myself lucky that I had a database to dig back for tuning contacts - it would've been
> pretty bleak without having done part-time tunings all these years. 
> 
> I only do a couple of days a month at the university...  I may have to go into "full hustle" mode now to get enough work to keep busy. 
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Ron Koval
> Concordia U