Whatever blows your socks off ...! I happen to love concert work, and I don't find it all that stressful. The real sources of stress are some of those customers who are held bent on the idea that the salesman and/or the local piano teacher know more about pianos than the technicians are supposed to know. The harder it is to reason with these people, the more stressful the job. Work environments are a huge variable. A concert stage heavily loaded with amplifying equipment can be a difficult scene, but so are homes cluttered with children's toys or fussy fragile thingees, say nothing of some of those dark, dank, dreary basements so many pianos have been banished to. For me, the less workspace there is, the more stressful the jobsite. There have been places where there simply was not enough space to open my toolbox. So ... just what IS the job ranking of Piano Technician? I don't think it can be ranked because there are too many variables within each catagory used to determine the ranking, especially for those of us who are self-employed. Just some thoughts -- Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------- From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: piano tuners are 126 Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 12:22 PM > tuning as one of the most stress free jobs Wim, you obviously have not worked at a university at recital time or have wroked on the concert stage. Two quite stressful places. Newton
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC