<div>Well actually, a lot of mentors just take a percentage of the cost of the whole job, so there wouldn't be any out-of-pocket expenses for myself if this was agreed upon.</div> <div> </div> <div>But there are techs who need a tool for the job, they do include the cost someway in their quote.  So hiring a mentor would be the same difference in this situation.</div> <div> </div> <div>Matthew</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>iam R. Monroe" <pianotech@a440piano.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>If you hired a mentor to ensure you did a proper job, you would pay that cost yourself, not charge your client.  That is the cost of education for you in this instance.  I don't think clients really should be expected to pay for our education.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>William R. Monroe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>SNIP</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> Besides, if I hired a mentor to come look at the situation, I would need to put the added cost to the customers bill, and I had already given him my quote :-).  It was just a curious question, because I surely would be the first to opt out of rebushing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV>Matthew<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>