Exactly! Over the years, I have met so many incredible people and have come to be good friends with many of them. I look forward to catching up with their lives on my visits. I view it as a fringe benefit of this peculiar job. I make polite, small conversation with those I meet for the first time, but year after year, a relationship grows can't help but grow. Some people do not invite or allow anything beyond letting me in the door. That's absolutely fine with me. However, some relationships have grown beyond the limitations of time that a tuning visit allows, so we socialize on our own time. If you keep clients for 10, 15, or 20 years, how can you just walk in, smile, do your job, and then collect the check? I treasure my clients who have become my friends. I'm realistic with my time and often have a very tightly scheduled day and explain that to talkative clients, but 5 or even 10 minutes never ruined a day, or a business and there is a lot of human interaction that can be done in that time. jeannie Jeannie Grassi, RPT Assistant Editor, Piano Technicians Journal mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Ross Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:21 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius) I Have found that as I get older, it is me that is keeping them, away, from what they are doing, by talking, after, I finish tuning. :-) John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:32 AM Subject: Re: The Curse of Gab (was: [CAUT] I am a genius) > At 07:26 PM 8/15/2005 -0700, you wrote: >>Oh gosh, I can't resist jumping in here. I have often noticed how lonely >>people seem to be, particularly when I have been in their home for 1-2 >>hours. They seem to ened someone to talk to. So, if I possibly can, I >>listen. But I agree, one must set one's boundaries and stick to them. It's >>part of my life's mission, I guess, quite apart from my professional >>mission, to be kind when I can... > > Hi, Mary > > I've thought that as I get older, I will be less worried over my > "boundaries" and how many jobs I can get through, and just allow myself to > blow off some time chatting with my customers, some of whom are very > interesting people, especially the older ones. Well, I do that already, > only now I sometimes feel guilty about the "wasted time", though I feel > less guilty with every passing year. > > At some point, I think it gets reasonable to ask what we're saving all > this time FOR? > > Susan > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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