A one man show competes by trading volume (in which we are not competitive) for cost efficy, so it evens out imho...

One also gets the master, and not the apprentice , or any half hearted 'ratio' that most bigger outfits tend to fudge on.

a local plumbing shop serves as good example here, having approx 75 employees, and a 1/2 dz masters

of course, my state has only one plumbing inspector, he's new btw...(the last one rumored to have succumbed to alchol dependency)

(see....someone always has it worse!)

~S~



[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 01-21-2004).]