Welcome to the club, Brother Ron... in eight days it makes one year ago that I was working 50 hours a week for someone else, then Friday at 5:00 PM that business closed with no warning. Now I advertise 24/7 trying to create stability in my world! Best of luck, John Parham Hickory, NC > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [CAUT] cutting departments > From: Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> > Date: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:49 pm > To: <caut at ptg.org> > > > I'm in that category now... > > I got my letter from the public school board a few weeks before school started telling me not to come in for the beginning of the school year. I've been > a full time instrument repair tech for 26 years for a large performing arts high school in Chicago. The principal and chair still have hope of getting at > least a part time position with benefits starting soon. I consider myself lucky that I had a database to dig back for tuning contacts - it would've been > pretty bleak without having done part-time tunings all these years. > > I only do a couple of days a month at the university... I may have to go into "full hustle" mode now to get enough work to keep busy. > > <sigh> > > Ron Koval > Concordia U
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC