Congrats Frank! I just hope your lab doesn't do what my did about 6 months ago. They are no longer open on weekends. They mostly do pro stuff - very little consumer/off the street work. So they found that it was better business to shut down for the weekend.
If your lab did that, you might have to go digital <evil grin>. -- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, August 6, 2005, 6:22:36 AM, you wrote: ft> Well, it's official. ft> Frankie's no longer a bike messenger <audible gasps from the audience>. ft> He's a bike messenger dispatcher. ft> I've actually been a back-up dispatcher for many years, but not at the ft> company I currently work for. When I heard that our dispatcher's ft> leaving, I told them I'm interested, they had me up for an interview, ft> put me on the board for a day, and hired me. ft> I've been "in training" for a couple of days, will continue that next ft> week, and as of the 15th, I'll be the full time bike dispatcher for my ft> company (which is one of the better courier companies in town). ft> It will be a bit more money than my best days on the road to start ft> off, but the best part of it is that I don't have to ride winters ft> anymore. ft> The office is about 10 km from my house, so I still get to have a good ft> ride there and back on good weather days (including winter, if it's ft> dry and not too cold), but when the weather hoovers, I can subway/bus ft> it there. Hopefully, riding daily and going on longer road rides on ft> weekends will allow me to keep my svelt figure (and avoid that ft> annoying middle-age spread <LOL>) ft> Down side is longer hours and fairly high pressure, but I'm happy to ft> make the trade-off. The other downside is that I can't go to my lab ft> on the way home, because I work to 6pm, and he closes then. I have to ft> do all my photo-stuff on Saturdays now... ft> I may go out to celebrate tonight! ft> cheers, ft> frank
