Last weekend, I sent a message via Facebook to a handful of friends asking if anyone had advice on pneumatic tools and compressors. In response, one of my former co-workers from over a decade ago responded and told me to call him at noon the next day.
It was so nice of him to respond for one. It was also very comforting that even though we hadn't spoken to one another in over ten (10) years that the conversation just flowed and he was completely open and honest.
In brief, he thought he had a job offer last year for one of the intelligence agencies and months and months later it is still in process and he has not been working. Not a good situation for the breadwinner with a mortgage, stay-at-home wife and two (2) children.
He offered that in searching he had sent emails to a couple of individuals and was surprised that he never got a response.
My advice to that was, if you have their telephone number, next time call and don't give them the chance to forget or ignore. Plus, I can not personally understand why one would not attempt to help out a former co-worker and let him know that I would do what I could to help.
We talked further and I told him, I could locate a number of the email addresses and telephone numbers of some of the men we had worked with and would gladly forward them to him. Also talked about how three (3) of our former co-workers had started their own business and I'd get them the name of that company, as well.
Within about twenty minutes of our conversation I had forwarded via email the contact information.
Within less than an hour he had then taken the company information and pulled up the website of our former co-workers and given them a call.
By, that afternoon, the former co-worker and now president of his own company had called him back and stated, "I don't know what is stranger today. The earthquake or you calling me."
He was invited for a lunch interview yesterday, the following day!
I called him back personally rather than email and let him know how psyched I was and that this was it. He'd have a job by the end of this week.
This AM, he informed me that he starts working with them on Monday.
How wonderful is that?
Thank you God for putting us in touch when you did and allowing us to help one another. Amen.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Keys - How To Keep Them Organized, etc.?
This is one of those post that I am not going to offer advice. Actually, I need assistance on a good, inexpensive method to keep track of the slew of keys that one collects over the years. Everything from luggage, padlock, house, auto keys, etc.
Yesterday, I had zero luck in my search for a key ring with my old truck keys on it. I have had it in a zippered section of my purse for months and very well might have taken them out to temporarily lighten the load before heading out one day. But, can not for the life of me recall, if so, where I put them.
Not a small key ring either, as it has a decorative Tony the Tiger or Exxon, Tiger in the tank head with a safari hat on.
The positive of the whole search is that I thought I had certainly lost my second set of house, truck and car keys months ago.
NO.... They were found and recovered in the Tiger Ring Search.
No joke.
Found them in a lower zipped pocket of my backpack; which I only use periodically.
Sweet, as on Monday PM, I went to Home Depot and had them make three (3) copies of my SUV key. The downside, I discovered is that the manufacturer's keys obviously have a microchip in them. Therefore, my duplicate keys are only functional for the door lock and to turn the electronics on via the ignition key hole.
Back to how to label and store. I need suggestions desperately and would prefer a method that doesn't take up too much space and yet has all keys visible. (Hmmm... Just thought if there was a method of solid pages in a three ring binder that might be a possible solution.)
How do you tag your keys, so that you aren't totally stumped when you go to open the shed door and don't know which Master Lock key goes to that particular lock?
How many spares or back-ups is enough?
Yesterday, I had zero luck in my search for a key ring with my old truck keys on it. I have had it in a zippered section of my purse for months and very well might have taken them out to temporarily lighten the load before heading out one day. But, can not for the life of me recall, if so, where I put them.
Not a small key ring either, as it has a decorative Tony the Tiger or Exxon, Tiger in the tank head with a safari hat on.
The positive of the whole search is that I thought I had certainly lost my second set of house, truck and car keys months ago.
NO.... They were found and recovered in the Tiger Ring Search.
No joke.
Found them in a lower zipped pocket of my backpack; which I only use periodically.
Sweet, as on Monday PM, I went to Home Depot and had them make three (3) copies of my SUV key. The downside, I discovered is that the manufacturer's keys obviously have a microchip in them. Therefore, my duplicate keys are only functional for the door lock and to turn the electronics on via the ignition key hole.
Back to how to label and store. I need suggestions desperately and would prefer a method that doesn't take up too much space and yet has all keys visible. (Hmmm... Just thought if there was a method of solid pages in a three ring binder that might be a possible solution.)
How do you tag your keys, so that you aren't totally stumped when you go to open the shed door and don't know which Master Lock key goes to that particular lock?
How many spares or back-ups is enough?
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