Moving to and from California and New York City ! , By Edward Wilson

Moving to and from California and New York City ! , By Edward Wilson.
A couple of years ago I decided to develop my own engineering company. At the beginning it was pretty harsh, contracting and hiring and meeting up with clients, but since I already have a bit of a career going on, I took up pretty quickly. At first I found it very exciting, but then, I began to miss traveling, moving to different cities, meeting new ways of living. I really wanted to have that back, but now I have a business to take care of and I can´t just move away and leave it to run itself, Crisis And Issues Management.

I had always wanted to move to New York, but it is such a crowded city. It has such a competitive environment. There´s engineers all over the place. I had done some previous work there, but I had never really lived in New York. I just moved temporarily to a hotel for a couple of months, which doesn´t really count as living in the place.

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As a single man, I decided I would throw myself into the Hudson head first and move myself and my eternal love (or business, whatever you want to call it) to New York. I had no idea what to do first, Good Stories are always hard to tell, Squid 3 and such ¦

A few people who worked for me told me I was crazy moving to a city with 25 million people. They told me the company would crash in six months, but to all those who were left behind, I found a whole pile of engineers willing to work for me too, so that wasn´t so bad. My strongest asset in moving my company to New York, was finding out that a lot of things in New York are done through the internet. So I found myself a young curious webmaster who designed my whole moving to NY strategy through a company webpage. The best thing about this web world is that the kid that was doing all the work, is based in Springfield California and he didn´t have to move anywhere.

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He also did all the company move research. Through another internet service company designed only for people who are moving, he found out about all the movers who did long distance corporate moves. Although there are a lot of them, well, It´s not easy to trust some stranger to put all your engineering equipment and computers and everything you´ve acquired from your work over the years into a truck and just leave.

I have worked for years, just to buy the basic engineering, testing, and sampling instruments I need in order to successfully fulfill my contracts. I would not have sent all these instruments from one side of the country to the other, if I was not sure that the moving company I am hiring was absolutely trustworthy. And it was.

I hired the moving company that the webmaster chose for me, and as it results, they even moved my apartment and my project manager´s family too. They worked with us all the way. From the moment they came into the office to estimate all the stuff they had to move, I was convinced of their seriousness. The evaluator set up an appointment and was there 10 minutes before the meeting. This was special for me, because in my line of work, nothing is ever on time. Im usually nervous with the equipment since so much of it is expensive and people who don´t know how an instrument works tend to uncalibrated it or jam it. This guy didn´t touch a thing. He didn´t even ask what it was for. He did however, ask a lot of questions regarding fragile instruments or equipment with internal gasses or special devices which could break during the move. His meticulousness gave me the impression that he was really into his job, and this told me that the company knows who to hire, and thus, can guarantee their efficiency and their moving jobs as a whole.

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The day before the move, a moving team came into the office and packed perfectly and I mean as if the instruments came in the original boxes and were brand new. That impressed me even more about their performance. Moving day was hard, I was still prety scared about it but the manager at the moving company gave me the phone number of the truck driver and I didn´t even had to call him. He was permanently contacting me.

I had my personal stuff put in the same truck with the project manager´s belongings and the corporate move, so everything we knew was on their hands. Moving time was estimated to be about a week. They said 7 to 10 days, longest week ever, but they arrived at exactly 7 days, so timewise, they were excellent.

Upon arrival, the movers looked basically as if they had been run over by a train. I guess the road trip is hard on anyone, and who knows how many of them they do in a month. So i began to question myself about the safety of my equipment. As they began to unload and unpack, they asked me to test each and every single instrument. This seemed weird to me, but as I did it, I understood that this is also an insurance for them because somethings may eventually get damaged during the move, but other things may get damaged through misuse and people sometimes take advantage of the move to pin the damages on the moving company. Everything was perfect. Even cups and dishes and personal stuff. Nothing was broken, nothing was damaged. I was grateful to all of them and invited the crew out that night. They only accepted going out to eat. I guess they were a little starved from the trip, but they said they had a long week going back with another move thay had in Jersey.

Going through a corporate move requires complicated logistics and programming, it is not an easy task but these guys pulled it off in such a professional way that they deserve to be hired over and over again. So I decided I´m not tying myself down to a town or city as long as they´re around. Whenever I feel like moving myself, my company or my people, I´m doing it through them.

I finally lost the fear of moving my company, as long as I move it with the same moving company. My webmaster is a gifted person when it means trusting people over the internet and I am very thankful to him also. Although he didn´t want to move to New York with us, we still work together online and I am happy and successful here because of his work.

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