Enjoyed the story Joe. Definitely made me laugh. Being 44 now, I get it to. Not so long ago I'd think nothing of jumping off a 1 story roof. Now I give a second thought to jumping down 3 stairs... You know age is catching up when you have your chiropractor in your mobile phone "favorites" list!
Patrick Leary Aperto Networks 813.426.4230 mobile -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Miller Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WISPA] Knowing when to stop doing installs yourself,they are for the young This should make for a good read, or a good laugh. This week, my installer has been out of town. However, business still goes on. I decided to do some of the installs while he is away. Nothing was different about these installs from the hundreds of installs that I've done in the past. The first install that I did on Tuesday of this week resulted in drilling a small hole in my right hand. I was trying to drill a hole into a blank wall plate. All of the sudden, it shattered into about 10 pieces. What the hell was I thinking. I've never tried to do that in the past. I've always used a 2x4 or something like that to back it up to keep that from happening. It was getting late and I took a short cut. My right hand is still paying the price for that one. The second install resulted in putting my foot through the ceiling due to not have full use of my right hand from the install the day before. Walking around in ceilings requires the use of both hands. Well, my right hand, still in pain from the install the day before, was having issues with it being used. Anyway, while moving around in the attic area for the third time to fish up my cat5 cable and to remove the tools that I put up there, I slipped on one of the ceiling joists and put my foot through the sheetrock. I though the homeowner was going to come unglued, but he was pretty cool about it. He was more concerned about me than his ceiling. In order to save face, I gave him the $249.00 install for free, gave him the new router and USB wireless adapter (cost of $100.00) for free as well. Along with a free months service of $49.95. This was to help cover the cost of the repair of the sheetrock. The hole in the ceiling was the size of my size 13 shoe. And of course I'm really sore this morning writing this. Anyway, the whole point of writing this is that there is a time in everyone's life when you have to leave the installs to the younger ones. I'm not saying I'm too old to do this, but after running cable in houses for over 20 years, it is time to let others take care of it. Even if it means putting off installs for new customers. As the VP of Operations for my company, I've always had the "just get it done" attitude. There is nothing that my company does that I cannot do, and I have. It doesn't mean that "I" have to do them. When that time comes, you just have to learn how to delegate those jobs out. Now that everyone has had a laugh at my expense, (it's ok). Maybe someone here can learn from what I did this week and not make the same mistakes. The main thing is that we do our jobs well. And above all...we do them safely. Joe Miller DSLbyAir, LLC 228-238-2563 www.dslbyair.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
