<HTML>In a message dated 4/17/02 10:07:14 AM Central Daylight Time, atodd@UH.EDU writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I have 135 pianos but with that kind of concert load (thankfully not ALL semester), there are pianos which don't get tuned as often as I'd like. </BLOCKQUOTE> Avery If you haven't already, I think it is time for you to take the workload formula, either my new one, or the one from CAUT, and show your administrator the school needs two full time piano techs. If they are refusing, I think you owe it to yourself to stop trying to do it all. If you are getting paid to work 40 hours a week, then only work 40 hours a week. If a piano doesn't get tune, so be it. The only way you're going to be able to convince the administration you need help is to let the pianos not get tuned. If you keep working the kind of hours you are, the administration will never see a need for another technician. I know you love your work, and so do I. But it is not right for the university to take advantage of that. Even the most ardent professor is not going to take on more students the guidelines recommend. And you shouldn't take on more pianos than the CAUT formula recommends.   Wim </HTML>