I found a way to make more money on the weekends

Over the past nine years, I have been working at a small HVAC repair company.

The owner of the business is an older guy that decided to retire six months ago. When he retired, his son took over the business and changed a lot of things. My fellow employees and I were receiving benefits like medical, dental, and a 401k. The new owner decided to change our schedule so we no longer qualified for benefits. Since we weren’t scheduled for full-time hours, the guy didn’t have to pay us benefits like insurance and pension. I honestly thought about quitting when I heard the news, but there aren’t very many heating and AC repair companies in the small town where I live. I decided to make it work so I didn’t go without a job. I found a way to make more money on the weekends. I put an advertisement online on Facebook and Craigslist. I advertised my services as a certified HVAC repair person. I offered my services at a much lower rate than the company was charging. I started making three or four hundred extra dollars every weekend. It’s been steady for a while now and I’m starting to think that I might have a future starting a business of my own. I could be the competitor that puts this guy out of business. I have good relationships with a couple of the commercial property owners that I serviced. I haven’t offered them an alternative, but I think it might be time to go public with my side business.

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The repairs for the mobile HVAC guy were drastic

A couple of years ago, I decided to sell my house and live a much different lifestyle.

I purchased a small camper and my dog and I went out on the road.

The camper that I purchased was older, but it had been newly remodeled with new flooring, tile in the bathroom, and a brand new furnace. The previous owner told me that the air conditioner was a couple of years old. It was ice cold on the day that I purchased the camper. About six months into my trip, I had the first problems with the camper. It turned out to be an issue with the air conditioning system. That machine is one of the most expensive items in the vehicle to fix and I had to contact a mobile HVAC repair service to handle the repair. Since I was living in the mobile camper, I didn’t have anywhere else to live if I put it in a shop. I contacted a couple of different places and only one HVAC repair service offered mobile services for recreational vehicles. I made an appointment and paid an astronomically High fee for the service call and the repairs. At least they were able to fix the problem. It would have been a lot worse if I had to pay for a service call that did not result in a functioning AC system. While the service professional was working on the system, he also cleaned and serviced the rest of the furnace components as well. I haven’t had any other major problems since then.

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I got sick after eating too much at lunch

After Jack and I finished with a ductless HVAC installation job, we decided to break for an hour and grab some lunch.

I skipped breakfast before work that morning and I was incredibly hungry.

Jack and I discussed our lunch options and we decided to go to a Mexican restaurant with $2 tacos. Tacos tasted great. I got two with chicken, one with shrimp, and one with steak. The tacos tasted so great that I decided to grab a couple more at lunch. I ate a total of 6 tacos before we left for the next repair job on our schedule. About a half-hour later, my stomach started to rumble and I started to feel sick. I told Jack that I was going to need a break before we continued with the second installation job. I took the repair truck down to a gas station that was close to the job site. I stayed in the bathroom for 15 or 20 minutes. I did not throw up and I did not have any diarrhea, but I had terrible pains in my stomach. I honestly didn’t think I was going to be able to return to the job, but the pains in my stomach started to dissipate after I burped a couple of times. When I returned to the job site with the repair vehicle, I was happy to see that Jack had already started on the schedule for repair. He was happy to see me back in good health and we spent the rest of the afternoon working on the last HVAC repair of the day.

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The tow truck driver turned the heat on high for us

My girlfriend and I were on our way home from a yoga class and it was very cold and wet outside.

Snow was starting to fall and it was sticking to the ground.

It was very dark outside and it was hard to see. We decided to take the interstate, hoping it would be faster with less traffic. Unfortunately, there were two accidents on the highway and we were stuck in traffic for 2 hours. When we got close to our exit, the car started to sputter and smoke. We were only five miles away from home, but I knew the car was not going to make it. We pulled over to the side of the road and that’s when I noticed that we were out of gas. The car wouldn’t turn back on after I shut it off, so we were stuck on the side of the road in the cold weather without any heat. I contacted the tow service and they agreed to send someone to pick us up. It was supposed to take an hour, but it was closer to 2 hours. When the tow truck driver finally showed up, my girlfriend and I felt like we were freezing to death. Thankfully the tow truck driver turned the heat on high for us. We sat inside of their tow truck while the guy loaded our car onto the back. The truck driver took us to the car dealership and stayed there until we had a taxi back home. He let us sit inside the cab with the heat running until the yellow car arrived to take us home.

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The message was hard to understand and I didn't get a phone number

Each morning when I go to the office, I listen to all of the messages on the answering machine from the previous night.

We don’t offer emergency services overnight, but we do promise next-day service on any calls made throughout the evening. I listened to all of the messages and one particular message stood out among the rest. I could tell it was a man on the phone, but he was mumbling through most of the message. I couldn’t understand anything he was saying and I didn’t hear his phone number either. I wanted to provide HVAC services to the customer, but I didn’t have any way to contact the guy. I hoped the customer would contact us again, but I didn’t get any other phone calls throughout the day that sounded like the same person. The next day, I had another message on the answering machine. I could tell it was the same person, but this time I was able to understand the telephone number. I wrote down all of the numbers and I contacted the customer. I visited the service address a couple of hours later. As soon as I meant the customer, I understood why it was difficult to hear his messages. The guy had suffered from a stroke a few years ago and he was still having trouble speaking properly. I helped the customer with the furnace repair and I gave him my personal cell phone number so he could text me next time he has an issue with the heating plan or air conditioning system.

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