Now and zen timer review5/30/2023 She had plently of experience with difficult hand making jobs and (most important!) – she had the balls to do this job! Others were a bit scared of the glassblowing lathe, burners, gas cylinders and all these bunches of hoses □ After another few months of training, Katerina is now able to do most of the glassblowing tasks (sealing stem-envelopes, tip-offs, etc.) and many other jobs in the workshop – freeing my hands a bit! I invited some applicants, and one of them, Katerina, made really good impression. ![]() I tried to advertise a glassblower position and got few tens of replies, but no glassblower. Czech republic is famous for its glass industry, we have plenty of big companies producing hand made top notch design glass objects (from small glasses to huge chandeliers etc.), but unfortunately in the opposite end of the country. I started to look for a fulltime glassblower. Demand in the clock exceeded my expectations (over 50 orders until end of year), I soon found that I am not able to manage all the jobs myself (glassblowing, tube processing, programming, soldering, communicating with customers etc.), another help was needed. Zen Nixie ClockĪfter couple of months of development, we revealed the Zen Nixie Clock – simple from the design point of view, easy to manufacture and as affordable as possible. I finally found this whole process worth all the struggle, I could start with new project – Zen Nixie Clock. The beginnings were tough, I was learning how to train, prepare the work, check the results and what to do when you run out of parts for assembly □ After few months, Monika was eventually able to work almost independently on me. In two months, she learned lot of operations from the nixie tube manufacture. She was first employee and the last thing I would need is to lose her after training because someone else offered 20% more (economy is growing fast here, unemployment very low). I offered a bit higher salary than common for manual job of this character. During first months of 2016, we had approximately $5.000 monthly stable turnover, IMHO right time to hire first employee.Īfter some time, we found a skillful lady (Monika) for half-time job, she had experience with soldering and similar jobs. This new employee should have been someone who would step by step learn all the processes of cleaning and assembly of inner tube parts and would become a regular employee in long term perspective. My wife Eva was helping me with administrative tasks (accounting, all the bureaucracy, etc.). I was working alone, with Karel, a pensioner, for small ad-hoc jobs. One year ago, I set myself a goal to arrange things in the company so that I can hire an employee to help me with the manual routine works on nixie tubes. Maybe business people among you will have some notes to my decisions □ And because business is about numbers, I decided I will share them with you. Year 2016 was about transformation from one-man-show to small company. Year 2017 is here, right time to review year 2016.
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