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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: my start
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.091949.20469@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <By1GJF.BKv@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:19:49 GMT
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- psr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Lord Strider) writes:
-
- : So I got me a copy of Popular Science, and mailed away to the advertised lock-
- : schools for their information packets. Then I called numbers out of the
- : phone book to look for a job. I got an owner on the phone and he was very
- : friendly. Even with no work experience, he wants me to come in to talk about
- : it. I didn't sense any reservations about "trade secrets" or anything like
- : that. So tomorrow I'll stop in and see what happens.
-
- Glad you have found a locksmith who is so reasonable.
-
- : Main points here is that locksmiths aren't stuck up snobs. They have a
- : responsibility to be responsible, thats all. Second point is, the overwhelming
- : opinion on how to become a locksmith is experience.
-
- Yep - and lots of practice. You will find that picking locks is a very minute
- part of the work. In all my years of part-time locksmithing, I have only
- found the need to pick about a dozen locks for customers. Most of those were
- picked, in the shop, using shims (instead of a torque wrench).
-
- Bill
-