A downside to self-employment

[Leslie Bartlett]

Wow!  If one looked at my website, I should be driving a Jag, have a couple
weeks in the mountains now and then, savings out the wazoo, and have a
really nice retirement fund.   Instead we live in a tiny house, my wife's
teacher's retirement  medical insurance, a ten year old car.  Yet, I sure do
like my boss, even though  he is the most horribly disorganized creature
I've met and it means  a terrible job of drumming up business.      To know
that every client is in a sense another "company to please", see repeat
business, word-of-mouth references, and people who even dare to say, "you
said my piano was so bad it shouldn't be  in my house. Would you come back
and tune my new Steinway?" or "Thanks for  your honesty"
.......................   Oh I guess I'll just risk that somehow I can live
till I die and be incredibly glad to be self employed.
 
les bartlett
HYPERLINK "http://www.bartlettpianoservice.com"www.bartlettpianoservice.com

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Hechler Family
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:46 PM
To: ed440 at mindspring.com; Pianotech List
Subject: Re: A downside to self-employment


Should have?

You have to be making enough money in the first place to even think about
the first two.

Even my mentor of 30+ years is slightly hurting. So if he is hurting, you
can imagine what that is doing to me!!

We have Boeing, Ford plant and Chrysler plant - either hurting or closed.

SO, give me ideas on how to get business from your existing clientèle when
THEY are hurting ?!

>From a depressed city with no chance of moving,
Duaine

HYPERLINK "mailto:ed440 at mindspring.com"ed440 at mindspring.com wrote: 

Dave-

Every self-employed piano technician should have

1) Disability insurance

2) A sick leave fund

3) A doctor who knows your income depnds on your hearing.

Rest well.

Ed Sutton

 



  

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Subject: A downside to self-employment

Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:44:26 -0400



You don't get paid when you don't work.  That's the big downside.  Vacations


we generally tend to account for, but it's hard to plan sick leave.



I probably should have taken this whole week off.  I had a couple of nights 

of fever and chills, and was feeling weak most of the time.  But like the 

stubborn ox I am, I pushed through what I thought was a cold, capped by a 4 

tuning-with-some-voicing Friday that included a fair amount of driving.  I 

ended up in the ER that night with chest pain.  Turns out it was a mild case


of pneumonia, not a heart issue.



Do others of you notice a difference in sound perception when you have a 

fever?  Even pianos that I tuned that passed every interval and etd test 

available to me sounded unpleasant and off.



Next time, I'll listen to my body when it screams, "take the time off."  It 

would be a lot more costly to end up in the hospital for a long stretch than


to miss a few days of work.



Be Well,



Dave Stahl, Sunday Sofa Spud



Dave Stahl Piano Service

650-224-3560

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Duaine Hechler

Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ

Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding

Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild

Reed Organ Society Member

St. Louis, MO 63034

(314) 838-5587

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