Personal injury

[William Sadler]

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>Gee, before I started working for IWU I worked no weekends
>or evenings--and I still had a full schedule--but those
>were the choices I made.  When I started at IWU I sent a
>memo to faculty stating the *rules* which included one
>stating that only essential concert work is done on
>weekends.  Essential mostly means touching up unisons.
>The way I get away with this is I have 2 weekly regularly
>scheduled times in the concert hall for tuning, voicing
>and regulating.   The only exceptions to the rule are
>piano faculty recitals or if the weather has been playing
>games with the tuning.   This system has worked well here
>at a small liberal arts school (only 160-180 students in
>the school of  music).  I miss the freedom of my
>*independent* days, but
>institutional work has certain niceties, too.  One of the
>best
>things that ever happened to me was when piano work went
>from being my life to it just being my job.
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>Barbara Richmond
>Illinois Wesleyan University
>Bloomington, Illinois
>berich@heartland.bradley.edu
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Great Barbara,......I started at the U when I was young and stupid and
thought that the only way to keep my job was to please everybody......they
are spoiled now......plus .....they make policy not me...and they will not
let me forget that.
William Sadler