Big News
Mmmmmmm, me me me me meeeeeeeeeee (that's me warming up my singing voice) Ahem!! God save our gracious queen, God save our glorious queen, God save the queen. I'm practicing for my ceremony where I will officially become a citizen of the United Kingdom. I'm not sure exactly when it will be, but I got the invitation to call the Master of Ceremonies and make an appointment for my citizenship ceremony. So now I am a dual citizen.
Also, today I got my piano tuning tools in the mail so as soon as my "how to" book arrives I will start tuning pianos. For those of you whom I haven't spoken to to fill you in on how that's going, I have decided not to go to the school in London. It would have been a lot of fun traveling into London for school, and the school itself seemed really good, but after praying about it I just didn't feel right about going that route. So I got hooked up with a gentleman who owns 3 piano stores and does a lot of refurbishing and tuning of pianos, as well as selling them. He occasionally take on people and mentors them in the business, but he doesn't actually pay you while you learn. Once you have a skill ie the ability to tune a piano then he starts to pay you. The manager of one of his stores told me to purchase this book and gave me a list of basic tools I would need to start, and told me to just start tuning any pianos I can find. He says the book is great (he still refers to it quite a lot and he's been tuning for 15 years), and he also said that if I ever got stuck on something to give him a call and he would be happy to offer advice. So the plan is to get as comfortable as I can tuning pianos on my own, and then approach Mr Roberts (the owner of the piano stores) and hopefully he'll take me under his wing and I can start earning sooner than later. At the moment I have a full time job, but there is only enough work for about 3 days a week. My supervisor asked me if I might be willing to go to part time in the future which would work in perfectly with the piano tuning because I can still have a guaranteed partime income that will match with Zulobia's part time income, and then any money I earn tuning pianos will be a blessing.
Sorry if this is a bit rambling, I am really tired, but I wanted to blow the dust off the blog and let you all know a bit of what's going on. Bless you all!!!
Also, today I got my piano tuning tools in the mail so as soon as my "how to" book arrives I will start tuning pianos. For those of you whom I haven't spoken to to fill you in on how that's going, I have decided not to go to the school in London. It would have been a lot of fun traveling into London for school, and the school itself seemed really good, but after praying about it I just didn't feel right about going that route. So I got hooked up with a gentleman who owns 3 piano stores and does a lot of refurbishing and tuning of pianos, as well as selling them. He occasionally take on people and mentors them in the business, but he doesn't actually pay you while you learn. Once you have a skill ie the ability to tune a piano then he starts to pay you. The manager of one of his stores told me to purchase this book and gave me a list of basic tools I would need to start, and told me to just start tuning any pianos I can find. He says the book is great (he still refers to it quite a lot and he's been tuning for 15 years), and he also said that if I ever got stuck on something to give him a call and he would be happy to offer advice. So the plan is to get as comfortable as I can tuning pianos on my own, and then approach Mr Roberts (the owner of the piano stores) and hopefully he'll take me under his wing and I can start earning sooner than later. At the moment I have a full time job, but there is only enough work for about 3 days a week. My supervisor asked me if I might be willing to go to part time in the future which would work in perfectly with the piano tuning because I can still have a guaranteed partime income that will match with Zulobia's part time income, and then any money I earn tuning pianos will be a blessing.
Sorry if this is a bit rambling, I am really tired, but I wanted to blow the dust off the blog and let you all know a bit of what's going on. Bless you all!!!
posted by Blaine Downie at 1:53 PM
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