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{my other life On Guard } Anthea Thomas, nail tech In her other life: security company owner "Long gone are the days of big burly monkeys working the club doors. I'm 5-foot-3-inches tall and can do the same job as a 7-foot giant," says Anthea Thomas, owner of Cornwall, England-based Ant's Nails and co-owner of GSD Property Protection Services. GSD offers a slate of security services including keyholding and alarm response. "This means if your alarm activates during the night we get the telephone call. We respond on your behalf and check out whatever activated the alarm. It's not always criminals; more often than not it's a spider going for a midnight stroll," says Thomas. They also offer manned guarding and mobile patrols, as well as panic alarm monitoring. Much of their work is done with guard dogs. In fact, Thomas' husband Roger, who owns the business with her, was the ⇒ rst person in the UK to gain the Level Two General Purpose Security Dog Handling quali⇒ cation. Thomas's day-to-day duties tend to be the "boring but critical" of⇒ ce work. "I do go out and work nights when needed and I hold all of the same quali⇒ cations as the other guards. I used to prefer the night work but the of⇒ ce is so busy now that it does wear me out working days and nights," she says. Thomas is one of only two women on a staff of more than 30. "Most of the guards have been with us for more than ⇒ ve years. We really are a big family rather than a company," she says. That family feeling extends to clients as well. "I love the fact that most of our customers can call us and before they say who they are I know whose voice it is on the end of the telephone — not bad considering we have in excess of 300 customers." '' 170 | NAILS MAGAZINE | DECEMBER 2012 I'm 5-foot-3- inches tall and can do the same job as a 7-foot giant. NAILS (ISSN 0896-193x) (USPS 001-426) is published monthly, by Bobit Business Media, 3520 Challenger Street, Torrance, California 90503-1640. Periodicals postage paid at Torrance, California 90503-9998 and additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Nails, P.O. Box 1067 Skokie, IL 60076-8068. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for address changes to take eff ect. Subscription Prices - United States $20 per year; Canada $57 per year; Foreign $87 per year. Single copy price - $5; Big Book - $40. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks to receive your fi rst issue. Bobit Business Media reserves the right to refuse non-qualifi ed subscriptions. Please address Editorial and Advertising correspondence to the Executive Offi ces at 3520 Challenger Street Torrance, California 90503-1640 or online at www.nailsmag.com. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without consent of Bobit Business Media. All statements made, although based on information believed to be reliable and accurate, cannot be guaranteed and no fault or liability can be accepted for error or omission. Subscribers: If the Post Offi ce alerts us that your magazine is undeliverable, we have no further obligation unless we receive a corrected address within 2 years. ''