Giving back...ish

I have avoided service through most of my 20 years of doing this business for lots of reasons.  Mostly, it creates a lot of anxiety for me.  My favorite state of a project is DONE.  Generally everything in my shop either runs or it is actively being worked on until it is DONE.  NOTHING with a future (not a parts Jeep) sits half done, unfinished etc.  I have no tolerance for somedays.  Start the job, finish the job.  If you do it now, you won't have to do it later.  If I work for someone, I feel an obligation to you until the job is done.  I take it seriously.

Being a sole proprietor everything is earned.  There's no vacation pay and no one ever lifts the other half of that thing.  I have to make profitable decisions and manage my body.

I want to give back but these pockets aren't fat and this body (56) is wearing out.  I'm not really in a spot to work for free BUT I have learned a skill set that makes me pretty proficient at healing Jeep CJs.

Anyhow, I sold a rot free body tub to a good fellow in 2018.  He called me about January 2025 and said, hey Rudy, would you please put my Jeep together for me.  He'd taken it apart and then life started.  Kids and a demanding career.  I said, Matt, I really don't do service.  I'm never happy, it stresses me etc.  He's a sledder like I am and just a good dude.  We connected.  I wrote a non traditional letter about what I could do, what to expect and worst case when it would be done.  I drove to MN in terrible weather and brought home a pile of Jeep and in about 6 weeks it was ready to return.  It really halted a lot of my normal Jeep progress and it was hard on my body but is was rewarding.  Hopefully I made a long term friend.  

I feel this skill I've learned brought some joy.  A few pics attached.