Blog 60–An accidental growth of a company and more

(Great Ghosts, Batman! What is this!)

The picture is for the last part of this blog.

My thirties were a very busy, profitable, and memorable decade. It actually set me up for the future. At first, I worked for a few travel technologist services until I found out how much money they were charging the hospitals and clinics. I saw dollar signs and freedom in my eyes.

I guess bragging, I became one of the most asked for technologists in the fields of Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasonographers. I realized that I could do this on my own by under-cutting the services while making more money for myself. I finished my promised fulfillments then set out on my own.

I began going to places that knew me and did not care that I started my own business, then began getting word of mouth that I was on my on. Now, things got complicated when different hospitals and clinics needed me at the same time. This was my chance to grow. I placed an ad in the Radiology Magazine for travel technologists. I got about five bites and used two of them. And this kept happening more and more.

Well, I loved the traveling myself, so I hired some of my Dallas friends to work IN Dallas while I took jobs on the toad. (You would make more money when you traveled and it was always paid by the businesses.) Everyone was happy. I averaged keeping five technologists busy full-time. On holidays and summer, this would double to average ten people.

As I got bigger and in higher demand, I began adjusting my prices to equal the work being done and for being known for having the best selection of technologists. I had a strict rule of hiring technologists with more than five years experience, paying them all what they truly were worth, and satisfying our customers as they wanted. They were willing to pay our price,

(in my own opinion) because we did very well and they still made money and had happy patients. I did this for 14 years. when I got tired of traveling, I closed my company and walked away.

(Hosting two parties a year for five years.)

Robert has always been an artist when it came to decorating and planning events. We were making enough money to host parties around October thirty-first and at Christmastime. We just called them costume parties instead of Halloween parties to satisfy everyone’s beliefs. At Christmas, they would be semi-dressed dinners with Karaoke. Between Robert and I, we had an average of thirty-five guests that were family. When you added friends, we averaged between forty to fifty guests. I even hosted my own fortieth Birthday party.

(Someone get Mom off the floor!)

Every party had a theme and every year we tried to out do our last one. This one was the winner. Robert, Bill (Fish) and I decided to surprise everyone by opening the party with a strip routine. We did not tell but three other people. It was the most embarrassing, yet exciting, thing I have participated in. (And, yes, it was my idea.)

The party theme was outer space. We decided to do a “Star Trek/Beetlejuice” routine. We bought costumes and a friend who sewed made them where we could rip them off. Then, we bought g-strings that had “roosters” in the front. We created a skit to keep people wondering what was happening.

Suddenly, a loud crash sounded and all the lights turned off. When they came back on, we acted like we had been hypnotized and the song from “Beetlejuice” began playing and we lined up and began dancing to it, sort of like the table scene from the movie. Only, this time, in certain parts of the song, we began taking our costumes off.

We began with our shoes and went all the way to the g-strings. My mother, Robert’s mother and Bill’s wife were in the audience. Again, no one knew we were going to do this. Bill, Robert and I agreed that we would stand there for five seconds before leaving the stage, but as you can see by the last picture, I was the only one that kept my word! But, what I did not know at the time was that Bill had tugged his pants in such a way that his rooster came off with it. The bathrooms were at the back off the room and we all made a mad dash to the sounds of cheers, guffaws, and very red family members.

(Blog 61—– More of my most bizarre cases and Hawaii)