Marlon, I just joined this list and agree with your recommendations to supplment with a part time job. Prior to my current position, I worked at a winery on swing shift from 4 pm to 12 midnite and did my consulting work in the day time. Whew. And later I got hired by a big company in fixed wireless infrastructure with one of the larger manufacturers.
By the way, I had a chance to visit Ehprata Washington when I visited the Grant County PUD folks. Very nice up there. I am originally from the rural area of Kings River, California, near the Kings Canyon National Park Hwy 180 Sierra Foothills. Worked for the US Forest Service, PG&E in Power Distribution and Energy Conservation, Chevron in clean diesals, and now involved in RF networks wireless. We used wirleess in power distribution for our SCADA networks albeit in narrowband. Broadband provides interesting opportunities for the enterprise. The rural areas of San Joaquin Valley still searching for wireless. One of my friends is putting up a system. Using his own money. I always thought a lease program is ideal for wireless because of the change in generation of equipment. For example, Canopy is now Canopy Advantage. And other manufacturers are going to new generation. Good luck to you all here on this list. I am also involved in WiMax (or I should say pre-WiMax). Felix Lopez --- "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With 11 customers I HIGHLY suggest you get a part > time job. Something > flexible if you can. > > Taking that financial stress off will help you do a > much better job. > > I drove tractor, did consulting, speaking, equipment > sales, wrote articles > etc. Whatever I could to make extra money. If I'd > not have done those > things, I'd have failed in this business for sure. > Costs were too high and > I had too much debt stacked up. And my wife works > part time half the year > so she's not a lot of help in feeding the family. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:52 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits? > > > >I will admit that I have a lot of potential, but > potential doesn't mean > >dollars now. More than once I've looked at finding > a part time job (again) > >so I have some money to invest in my operations. > > > > I need more equipment. > > I need more marketing. > > I need developers. > > I have no or little money to pay for the above. > ;-) > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits? > > > > > >> Yeah, but you have all kinds of things going on. > I see you on all the > >> various lists looking for everything from fiber > paths to long distance.. > >> Heck, one of these days, I may even buy something > from you. > >> > >> George > >> > >> Mike Hammett wrote: > >>> I wish I had 30. ;-) > >>> > >>> 11 paying customers here. > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> Mike Hammett > >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions > >>> http://www.ics-il.com > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "George > Rogato" > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > >>> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:28 PM > >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits? > >>> > >>> > >>>> Mike Hammett wrote: > >>>>> I joined this list last week and already > consider leaving due to the > >>>>> drama. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> It may feel a little like drama Mike, but calea > is important and some > >>>> people have very strong feelings one way or the > other. It's good to see > >>>> opinions, Ed saying he has 30 subs and will be > out of business is > >>>> informative and compelling. Some of us have > operations that can carry > >>>> the weight of the calea burden and others > don't. Sometimes we all > >>>> forget about the other guys circumstances. 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