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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yo list- Jeff Tanner is right on. I was
considering teaching a "pianotech" class here until I realized that if the
bean-counters caught on, they might out-source my job. The reasoning being that'
if this guy has time to teach a class plus tune, maybe we can save his
salary/benefits and just hire 2 part -timers.' The Vice Presidents for
Finance at these august institutions do not know anything about what we do-all
they see is the cost/benefit anal-ysis. They could care less about whether
we are pros or RPT's or whatever else we call ourselves. We have to stop
discounting our hard-earned knowledge and our time so that the part-time voice
teacher's piano is "perfectly" in tune every day of the year. End of
rant.steve kabat <A
href="mailto:s.kabat@csuohio.edu">s.kabat@csuohio.edu</A>
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