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Wouldn't it be awesome to wake up naturally everyday from now on for the rest of your life, with the exception when you wanted to?


Wouldn't it be nice to be the exception to the rule?


Knowing that you earned immunity from the clock?


That you answer only to yourself and your chosen responsibilities?


I can tell you it isn't all that bad, in matter of fact, I like it!!


I have been in business since I was 32 years of age and I was kind of forced into it. As my career field was shrinking and fewer and fewer jobs were available in what I did where I live and if I took a job within my niche I was going to have to earn less. It was a wanted job and the employer was only going to pay the competitive wage for the area I live in. Now if I was living in another state where my niche was more in demand, I would make 5 times compared to the competitive wage of where I live right now.


I made choices then, my daughters where growing up, it was important to me for them to stay in the same school system, breath healthy air, drink good water and live among a wonderful community. The money was not important enough for me to rip my children’s' opportunities away from them.


You see, as a child I was transferred from one school to the next, it was a constant battle being accepted by kids that had grown up in their community for years and I was the new kid, and you know how new kids were accepted. It was tough and I swore that I would not ever do that to my kids. But when my family was young and I was in demand I had many opportunities and we could have traveled all over this beautiful planet. That would have been a great thing to do if I was single, but not with a family, the people I love, I put above myself.


I understood real quickly that if I wanted to live here I was going to have to do something. I looked at what I knew and went into consumer electronics. Oh, before that I was an electrical field engineer in robotics and before that I was trained as a Russian working on U.S. captured Russian radars to assist in training our Troops against hostiles. Very interesting jobs that were demanding of a young person those days.


I started repairing things like TV's, VCR's, CD Players, DVD Players, Stereo HiFi, Musical Equipment, Microwaves, and Car Stereo. You name it; I was willing to look at it! I was able to repair it, charge a fee for my time and parts, stand behind my repair and move onto the next. Business was good, real good, better than good it was outstanding.


Then something happened! People were not fixing anything. People would drop off a TV to get looked at cause a friend had told them about me. It would cost $35 to have it looked at. Today’s rates are at $100, I would look at the TV, diagnose it, call the customer with the quote to repair and I started to hear the same phrase from most people, "Well I can buy one for that!".


This attitude is what scared me because it was being accepted through our society system. "Price Transference". This is a term I became very familiar with and this is why. When the cost of a drum head for a VCR was close enough to what it cost to buy a New VCR New it did not make sense to repair it. Why fix it if you could get it for new at the same price. To the dump it went, to the landfill, never to be seen again.


My Business was ripped out from under my feet when the Fair Trade Agreement went through. Bottom line, what happened, somebody decided, lets change this, it will be better! Ha, it was! 20,000 TV repair shops went out of business, probably the best ones.


Hello Dish Network! At the time all this change was commencing I knew I had to do something again. Look deeper into my niche. Ah...satellites, home theater, custom installs, design concepts for the home. Instead of fixing them, install them and sell them. The next 8 years were wonderful again, business was good and there was nothing to worry about, or even think about.


But then something changed again, more businesses were going out of business in my area. The manufacturing for the motor industry was diminishing. Less and less people had a job and started going back to school to learn a profession with our new largest employer. Here comes the Hospital...Health Care...Becoming an RN.....a Nurse's Aid. The Hospital is the largest employer next to our Casino.....They got us coming and going and I don't care to visit either one.


Now is here! Again, another change. People are not building new houses, people are not moving here and the new customer is like a dinosaur. I am going to bring up "Price Transference" again, but this time I don't know or understand it, but I have a theory. We are in it and you need to identify that this time it is going to be a bit larger, more costly with more to loose, but an opportunity to change with it.


My Value has changed and what I do know that my next venture has a different value. I am a frog out of water as are many that I know. Some are still secure if their jobs are related to certain companies and others know that there is an end. When...I predict soon. The end to the Industrial age and into the Informational age/Awareness age/Science age/ Social Age. What ever it is, we are in it.


So what is it that I am doing now? Well I will not give up my past business fixing and installing things, but it does not ask much from me right now, but I will maintain it.


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Scott W Kelley



Scott W Kelley Company
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5008 Rosada St
Petoskey, Mi 49722
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