[pianotech] Workload

[John Ross]

How can you make a living, on 5 a month?
When you say Midwest, that must be the 'Wild West'.  Just what is the 
population around where you are?
I have driven across the US a couple of times, and do remember driving for 
extended periods of time, where I saw no one.
I see from Google that your population density is low.
I live in a Province (State) of less than a million people. Unfortunately, 
Google doesn't give a profile of where I stay, so I can't compare. But I 
don't have a problem getting enough work, and I never schedule anyone in 
advance, I just wait for the calls to come in. Mind you, I do have a 
University contract, that works out to about a 100 tunings a year.
At 4 or 5 a month, you must be doing something wrong.
You aren't trying to change them all to Linux, are you. That is supposed to 
be a joke.
Sounds like you should move, unless this is just a recent happening because 
of the economy.
Sorry to hear of your lack of work.
John Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duaine & Laura Hechler" <dahechler at att.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Workload


Okay, now let's get to the real world - like the midwest and no
institutions/schools,etc.

What is the workload from the Midwest tuners ?

I'm lucky to do 5 - in - a - month :-(

Even my mentor, who has a quite sizable base and mostly churches, has
had a real slump.

Duaine

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