This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You might be laid off more gradually as each "employer" discontinues = hiring your services for the time being. It might depend on who all = those "employers" are. If your customer base is all livingrooms, and in = an area where there are large corporations indulging in massive job-cuts, you might eventually find yourself with = too little to do when all is said and done. If your customer base also = includes churches and theatres, you might be a little luckier, depending = on how their budgets respond to ticket sales or donations. We're lucky. Since our income doesn't respond as rapidly as having a = single employer deliver a job-cut, we have time to adjust our lifestyles = and shore up our resources as our income declines. I hate to admit, we might not be lucky for awhile yet. All I hope for = now is that things don't get as bad all around as they did in Boston in = '88-91 .... Christmas of 1990 was a year when the stores were laying = off people at Thanksgiving rather than hiring on seasonal help. The = "help wanted" pages in the Sunday Boston Globe went from a packet as = thick as the daily paper to a single sheet of newsprint. With jobs for = the general public being that scarce, I knew that we piano technicians = didn't have a chance, especially those who were new to the market. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:45 PM Subject: Re: Recession-proof? Phil, I wouldn't expect piano service to be totally recession proof, but it is = still a lot different from a number of other occupations, in that, since I have = eight hundred "employers" I am not likely to get laid off by all of them. I = think I would always have enough income to pay the bills. Regards, Clyde Phil Bondi wrote: > In the US, with the advent of all the posibilities, it would be my = opinion > that 'new' piano sales are bound to take a hit. I feel used pianos = between 2 > parties and used from dealerships should maintain. > > but service... > > I'm the admitted rook in the business, and seeing company after = company > laying off thoussands of people, I still feel pretty safe being in a > service-based business. > > Is this a false sense of security? The activity of my phone tells me = no, but > I would like to hear the comments from those who have been through = what I > believe we are headed towards. > > roo(k) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5c/ae/9c/25/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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