<HTML><HTML> In a message dated 12/22/04 2:11:47 PM, Alpha88x@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">I am curious about ho= w all you folks made out this year with your business. Better or worse than = the year before. </BLOCKQUOTE> This is my fifth year in business and until this year, each year topped the = last one, as would be expected when you start from nothing.  Unfortuna= tely, this year is worse than last year, equalling my totals of my third yea= r in business. Even more alarming is the fact that I have taken over another tuner's busine= ss in addition to my own clients.  And these two clienteles (granted h= is was not a huge client list) still only add up to about 75% of what I made= last year.  I've weathered the loss of income for this year and look forward to what nex= t year will bring, but my fear is that I've topped out here, and the totals = for the last three years represent the upper limit of what my business will = bring in.  If this is the case, I've got a nice part time job here.&nb= sp; Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate</HTML>