A downside to self-employment

[ed440 at mindspring.com]

Dave-
Every self-employed piano technician should have
1) Disability insurance
2) A sick leave fund
3) A doctor who knows your income depnds on your hearing.
Rest well.
Ed Sutton
 

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>----Original Message Follows----
>From: piannaman at aol.com
>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: A downside to self-employment
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:44:26 -0400
>
>You don't get paid when you don't work.  That's the big downside.  Vacations 
>we generally tend to account for, but it's hard to plan sick leave.
>
>I probably should have taken this whole week off.  I had a couple of nights 
>of fever and chills, and was feeling weak most of the time.  But like the 
>stubborn ox I am, I pushed through what I thought was a cold, capped by a 4 
>tuning-with-some-voicing Friday that included a fair amount of driving.  I 
>ended up in the ER that night with chest pain.  Turns out it was a mild case 
>of pneumonia, not a heart issue.
>
>Do others of you notice a difference in sound perception when you have a 
>fever?  Even pianos that I tuned that passed every interval and etd test 
>available to me sounded unpleasant and off.
>
>Next time, I'll listen to my body when it screams, "take the time off."  It 
>would be a lot more costly to end up in the hospital for a long stretch than 
>to miss a few days of work.
>
>Be Well,
>
>Dave Stahl, Sunday Sofa Spud
>
>Dave Stahl Piano Service
>650-224-3560
>dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
>http://dstahlpiano.net/
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