At the risk of merely wasting bandwidth, here's my 2 cents. I am a part-time tuner (and 42 y/o). My full time occupation is accountant for a large corporation. I've survived numerous down/right-sizings and didn't survive one. Being realistic, it's only a matter of time (best guess about 10 years), before I reach that stage where I'm too expensive to keep around.... So I started looking around for something to do when I take my "early retirement", something NOT involving accounting nor large corporations. Sooo, I decided to become a piano technician, took the Randy Potter course (which I just finished and will graduate with high honors), joined the PTG, and started doing some moonlighting as a piano tech. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how PTG members in general feel about part-timers, but so far, everyone that I've met who were in the PTG has been very supportive and helpful. In short, I don't feel that I've been treated any differently than any other new member, full-time or part-time. As to my tuning quality, I realise that I'm still a novice and will get better over time. However, my best customer (from whom I've received numerous referrals), is a local piano teacher, who became disgruntled with her other tuner (a full-time tuner), and has been really pleased with the way her piano sounds now. -- Jerry Hunt Dallas, TX USA
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