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<div>Duaine,</div>
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<div>That's a tough one...</div>
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<div>We have plenty of work around here, but the pace of life is pretty fast. It's easy to feel like I'm treading water even though I'm doing 3-4 tunings on most days.</div>
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<div>I hope the economy in your area is able to turn in a more profitable direction than it's been going. </div>
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<div>Dave Stahl</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
650-224-3560<br>
dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br>
http://dstahlpiano.net/<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: dahechler@charter.net<br>
To: ed440@mindspring.com; pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 1:45 PM<br>
Subject: Re: A downside to self-employment<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_e7a95a8a-a311-49fc-aea5-485c9a8b3c94>Should have?<br>
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You have to be making enough money in the first place to even think about the first two.<br>
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Even my mentor of 30+ years is slightly hurting. So if he is hurting, you can imagine what that is doing to me!!<br>
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We have Boeing, Ford plant and Chrysler plant - either hurting or closed.<br>
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SO, give me ideas on how to get business from your existing clientèle when THEY are hurting ?!<br>
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>From a depressed city with no chance of moving,<br>
Duaine<br>
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<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="javascript:parent.ComposeTo('ed440@mindspring.com', '');">ed440@mindspring.com</A> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE>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
</PRE>
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To: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="javascript:parent.ComposeTo('pianotech@ptg.org', '');">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
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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