Patience finally paying off

[sofadoc]

I've been doing work for a fixtures company for about 8 years.

Usually some type of padded bench seat for various applications. Such as dressing rooms, shoeshine stands, and children's play areas in retail stores. 

The jobs have always been small. They always had an immediate deadline. There was never much profit involved, and they always took over 60 days to pay.
And since they were only a few miles away, it always made more sense for me to deliver the items personally rather than to package and ship them.

I always had the feeling that I was merely doing their prototypes, and once they went into full-scale production with the finished product, the job went to someone else.

Well all of a sudden, the purchase orders are rolling for some fairly decent quantities. And the profit margins are pretty good on them. They are giving me plenty of "lead time", and I'm also getting quite a bit of personal furniture work from some of the managers and engineers that work there.

And I started tipping the guy at the receiving dock 10 bucks to hand-deliver my invoice straight to their accounting dept. I'm getting paid within the month now.

Several times over the last 8 years, I was tempted to tell them that I was no longer interested in doing their piddly little jobs. Now, I'm glad that I was patient with them.

[MinUph]

Sounds great. Congratulations.  You never know what is around the corner. Your good work and perseverance has paid dividends.  All smiles for ya!

[Mike]

Cool! 8 years hey? Sounds like some ody else retired

[bobbin]

Some of the best seed takes considerable time to germinate.  I'm delighted your "investment" is beginning to return dividends.  Yay!

[Mojo]

Congrats Dennis. You deserve all that business just for hanging in as long as you did.

Chris