Earnings: Self employed, or employed... Barrie

[Diane Hofstetter]

To Brian Trout,
  You DIDN'T get so far off topic!  Yours is the best advice I've read so 
far!
  Diane


>From: "Brian Trout" <btrout@desupernet.net>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: Earnings: Self employed, or employed... Barrie
>Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:10:10 -0400
>
>Hi Barrie,
>
>I'm sorry I don't have more complete information.
>
>I have to confess, I have no idea of what the national average earnings
>figures are.
>
>I work for a piano store, and even amoung the people who work there, the
>figures vary widely.   For full time employees, the lowest is probably just
>over $11,000, and the highest is around $30,000 (although I happen to know
>that that person worked a lot of overtime to earn that much.)
>
>I cannot speak with as much knowledge of the independant techs in the area.
>I have only ever heard three figures from full time techs in this local
>area, and they fell between $30,000 and $50,000.  (Good manners prevents me
>from elaborating any further.)
>
>As far as other trades, or the national average of all workers in all
>fields, I'm sorry I won't be of much help.  I imagine that there would be
>someplace on the web that would give such information, but I haven't been
>there yet...
>
>It kind of reminds me of about 10 years ago...  My wife and I were newly
>weds.  At the time I owned a very small janitorial service who's only
>workers were my wife and myself.  We worked a few hours in the evening or a
>few hours in the morning, and sometimes a few hours on the weekend.  We 
>only
>made about $800 per month.  We rented a mobile home on about an acre and a
>half of land out in the country.  We had a big garden, and a nice flock of
>chickens.  We had time to go places and do things.  We'd go to the library
>and check out a whole armfull or books, and we read them.  We didn't have
>much money, and we drove around in old 'clunkers', but when I look back, it
>seems like life was much simpler and slower paced.  And that was only 10
>years ago.  It seems now, we're both working full time jobs, bringing in
>more than we ever dreamed of 10 years ago, but I'm really wondering about
>where it's all going.  How much is enough?  Sure I could find ways to spend
>the money, but just how much of my  _life_  am I willing to give away to
>have those dollars.  I'm only 34 years old, but the older I get, the more
>precious life becomes to me.  I've started taking walks again in the
>mornings, going down a dirt road through the woods, watching the birds and
>the squirels, the occasional deer or muscrat,  listening to the water
>burbling in the stream, and enjoying the living creation around me.   No
>amount of money can buy that.
>
>How on earth did I ever get that far off topic?  Wow.
>
>It's a beautiful day here, and I'm enjoying life.  I hope you all are able
>to enjoy your corner of the world as well.
>
>Wishing you life's best,
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, Pa.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barrie Heaton <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 3:01 PM
>Subject: Re: Earnings: Self employed, or employed... Brian L.
>
>
> >In article <00b501beb9f3$7a146120$61b5aad0@brian>, Brian Trout
> ><btrout@desupernet.net> writes
> >>    ...According to the latest available figures from the U.S.
> >>    Department of Labor, average salaries for tuners/technicians in
> >>    1990 were as follows:
> >>
> >>
> >>    Fully half of it's members income........................ less than
> >>    $20,000 (most likely, part timers)
> >>    18% netted
> >>    .........................................................$20,000 -
> >>    $30,000
> >>    26% had a net income of....................................$30,000
> >>    or more.
> >>
> >Hi Brian,
> >
> >Do you have a National average yearly wage, some were in your country
> >stats.
> >
> >At the moment in the UK the average yearly salary for working class
> >£19,000, Middle class I think is £26,000 piano tuners in the UK are
> >classed as Middle class.
> >
> >
> >Barrie,
> >
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> >
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