About two years ago, I had the opportunity to do a - complete - rebuild finish and all) on an old square grand. Was probably going to make at least $10,000 - BUT - I had no shop to ove the piano to SO I lost the job. Now, I hope some smart-a** is not going to try and tell me that learning bout square grands at a convention would have gained me this job! -- uaine Hechler - I'm sorry, Duaine, but this makes absolutely no sense to me. You didn't "lose" the job. You should never have given a bid to do the work in the first place if you knew you couldn't do the work because you didn't have a place to do it. None of us "lose" work. We don't get jobs because we either don't have the knowledge or the facilities to do the work in the first place. A customer might decide not to have you do the work for a variety of reasons. That still doesn't mean you "lost" the job. As far as that assine last statement, you have obviously never attended a convention or seminar. If you had, you would know that there are no "smart asses", only dedicated technicians who give of their time, and want to share their knowledge with you, so that you will become a better technician. Wim ----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 12:01 pm Subject: [pianotech] Lost business About two years ago, I had the opportunity to do a - complete - rebuild finish and all) on an old square grand. Was probably going to make at least $10,000 - BUT - I had no shop to ove the piano to SO I lost the job. Now, I hope some smart-a** is not going to try and tell me that learning bout square grands at a convention would have gained me this job! -- uaine Hechler iano, Player Piano, Pump Organ uning, Servicing & Rebuilding eed Organ Society Member lorissant, MO 63034 314) 838-5587 ahechler at att.net ww.hechlerpianoandorgan.com - ome & Business user of Linux - 10 years -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100519/daa346b3/attachment.htm>
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