Vir \u2019n jong man van Durbanville, eens \u2019n kinderhuiskind, het die meetsnoere nou n\u00e1 onstuimige kinderjare op die regte plekke begin val.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timmothy Eloff (25) het onlangs sy eie loodgietersbesigheid begin. Hy en sy vennote het nog nie eens die besigheid behoorlik bekend gestel nie, en hulle moes reeds bontstaan om al die werksopdragte na te kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy was 15 jaar oud toe hy in die Durbanville-kinderhuis gekom het nadat hy van kleins af in sy ouma se pleegsorg, en later by sy pa geplaas is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timmothy het hom n\u00e1 skool as \u2019n loodgieter bekwaam en \u2019n paar jaar lank vir \u2019n plaaslike loodgietersbesigheid gewerk. Sy droom was egter altyd om sy eie besigheid te begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy sukses het nie gekom sonder \u2019n goeie hupstoot van sy vennote, Liana de Villiers van Eversdal, en haar eksman, Tony Tessendorf, nie. De Villiers is die operasionale bestuurder en behartig die bemarking, terwyl Tessendorf deeltyds \u2019n ogie oor die administrasie en finansies hou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timmothy het De Villiers op skool leer ken toe hy bevriend was met haar vriendin, Salom\u00e9 Horn, se dogter. Hulle was saam op skool aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Bellville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het altyd vir hom ges\u00ea as my \u2018skippie\u2019 inkom, dan maak ek \u2019n plan,\u201d s\u00ea De Villiers. Haar \u201cskippie\u201d was toe haar skeidingspakket einde April vanjaar toe haar werk haar moes afl\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hul paaie het weer gekruis toe sy hom sowat drie maande gelede kontak om na haar stukkende swembadpomp te kom kyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Net daar vat Timmothy se droom van \u2019n eie besigheid weer vlam. De Villiers het die kapitaal verskaf en hulle het gekoop wat gekoop moet word, en \u2019n stylvolle kantoor by haar huis in Chantecler in Durbanville ingerig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timmothy se geesdrif was so aansteeklik dat De Villiers en Tessendorf se seun, Michael (18), \u2019n matriekleerder aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Fairmont, sy planne om hom as ortodontis te bekwaam, laat vaar het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het skaduwerk saam met Timmothy gedoen, en wil nou niks anders as loodgieterswerk doen nie. Hy gaan volgende di\u00e9 ambag aan die Tjeka-kollege in Durbanville studeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy vriende kan nie glo dat hy \u2019n loodgieter wil word nie, maar hy is baie opgewonde. Ons fone lui aanmekaar. Timmothy het \u2019n wye netwerk; almal ondersteun hom,\u201d s\u00ea De Villiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle sou eers die nuwe besigheid, The People\u2019s Plumber, op 1 Augustus bekendstel, maar reeds \u2019n week vroe\u00ebr \u201chet alle hel losgebars soos ons telefoon gelui het\u201d. S\u00f3 dat hulle nog voor hul bekendstelling reeds 17 werksopdragte in net vyf dae voltooi het \u2013 enigiets van swembadpompe, warmwatersilinders en sonpanele vir warmwatersilinders tot nuwe installasies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is \u2019n mense-mens en maak altyd tyd om te gesels of \u2019n vinnige grappie te deel. My sterkste eienskap is dat ek baie ambisieus is; ek stel vir my \u2019n doelwit en ek werk so hard as moontlik om dit te bereik,\u201d s\u00ea Timmothy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat hy die meeste van sy werk geniet, is nie net die mense nie, maar ook om so te kan rondrits na werksopdragte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir my is dit so amazing<\/em> dat ek bevoorreg is om die Kaap te kan sien uit al my kli\u00ebnte se o\u00eb, want, glo my, dit maak nie saak hoeveel keer ek al vir Tafelberg gesien het nie, of selfs net \u2019n sonsondergang, uit elke huis lyk dit anders,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy o\u00eb begin sommer blink as hy van sy vrou, Gheraldine, praat, met wie hy onlangs getrou het. Die jong paartjie bly in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns is wel al vyf jaar saam en sy s\u00ea ek is so ver baie gelukkig getroud,\u201d skerts hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNa al die jare is dit baie moeilik om iemand spesifiek te noem wat my gemotiveer het; ek was gese\u00ebnd met soveel ma- en pa-figure en almal het bygedra tot die mens wat ek vandag is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie kinderhuis was nie altyd lekker nie, maar ek glo hulle het hul beste gedoen. Met die hulp van die publiek maak dit ongelooflik baie deure vir kinderhuiskinders oop,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy wil die jeug inspireer en ook laat besef dat om universiteit toe te gaan, nie die alfa en omega is om \u2019n sukses van jou lewe te maak nie. Hy hoop ook om terug te ploeg by die Durbanville-kinderhuis en werk daar gratis of teen afslag te doen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vir \u2019n jong man van Durbanville, eens \u2019n kinderhuiskind, het die meetsnoere nou n\u00e1 onstuimige kinderjare op die regte plekke begin 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