It's just a lifestyle choice. If you want to live in a sparsely populated area then you accept more driving, probably lower income and probably lower cost of living to go along with it. You do what is necessary to make a living and don't worry about the folks living in an elevated sense of their own reality who keep telling you that you aren't charging enough. Most people who live where Wim does do multiple things to make a living. It's just the nature of that economy, and sometimes this one as well. Sorry if this doesn't really address the original question. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carlton Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:26 PM To: Pianotech mailing list Subject: Re: [pianotech] ideas on mileage hi terry I figure that if I need the work so bad that I have to go long distances, that's my problem. Out here there's lots of distance between towns, with lots of ranch and farmland in between. If the population were denser(?) in between I definitely wouldn't be driving this far for work! So basically, I have to. If I were in Tampa, (where I did live for about a year and half) I can see not having to do this. I lived there '95-96, and it seemed denser(??) between surrounding towns, than out here (see the photo) Seems like it would be onerous to try and figure all that out..... ...yeah, it is. dunno. maybe i'm too worried about covering every single cent. i've thought about a flat fee for each customer, as Wim said. :) daniel carlton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101012/8fd831c2/attachment.htm>
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