Hi Chris, My thinking is that you may well be able to also be the contract technician who will be called in when your part time hours are found to be not enough. The department head is going to have to answer some screaming faculty when the pianos won't stay in tune. You ought to be able to charge them double or more your regular hourly salary for that time. You will HAVE to because otherwise your time is worth even more than that in the private sector. I caught a snip of a CNN report yesterday while I was in a home evaluating a piano. The overwhelming charge is that states have been reluctant to increase taxes, over time reducing the percentage of the state obligation of funding of public schools. I understand the University of Georgia is raising tuition 77% next year AND laying off faculty and staff. Haven't yet heard about the piano tech staff. Tanner ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Purdy To: College and University Technicians Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:55 AM Subject: [CAUT] Job? After nineteen years of work here, I found out last week that I am being cut to part time. I will keep benefits but my salary is going to be cut by half. If anyone knows of any impending job openings I'd appreciate a heads up. I love living here and my wife has a job she loves but this is a pretty rural part of the state and there just isn't going to be enough private work to pay the mortgage. Chris Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. Registered Piano Technician School of Music, Ohio University Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall Athens, OH 45701 Office (740) 593-1656 Cell (740) 590-3842 fax (740) 593-1429 http://www.ohiou.edu/music -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100305/e19fe5ba/attachment-0001.htm>
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