What wrong with you kids? I am 75 and still doing installs. Just have to be careful. Same thing when you 20. NGL
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Patrick Leary" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:12 AM To: <[email protected]>; "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Knowing when to stop doing installs yourself,they are for the young > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
