<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:28 PM, David Love wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Not only part time but only $20.00 per hour in a major metro area? <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Probably wouldn't be that much if it weren't a union position.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV>"...completion of stable tunings in 1.5 hours"</DIV><DIV>"Complete pitch raises in under 2 hours"</DIV><DIV>"Ability to complete 4 concert-level tunings per day"</DIV><DIV>...all at $20/hour before withholdings in 20 hours a week...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>Then, after you're exhausted, you can leave and go to your real job.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>At least the position is eligible for overtime.</DIV><DIV>(but wait till the tech gets that first two-week paycheck for about $560)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Willem Blees wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It's bad</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">enough when full time position open up that don't pay enough, but does</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the university realize that someone can't afford to live on half a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">salery,<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>er, half a half a salary.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> and that creating a customer base to support that income would</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">take several years?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There you hit the nail on the head for all of us -- even the F/T positions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Those kinds of job opening should be advertised locally. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I agree. But there have been other similar half time positions advertised in the past few years that techs have picked up and moved to. That lure of benefits will draw people across the country to live in cardboard boxes. So, it does happen. We're the fools that keep taking them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Imagine being able to say, "I'm a piano tech at Harvard." There will be all kinds of people in line for that 20 bucks.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's like saying, I'm the "official tuner for the symphony" because I only charge them 1/3 market price.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(not me, and hypothetically, of course)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>