Windows Service Background Worker

I have a windows service that works locally fine, but times out on startup on the server.

It was suggested that I move the real process out of the startup...and into a background worker.

So...
I seem to be missing something
Testing locally
Project builds and I can do an install
Service starts
I receive an email that it initialized
And another that it reached the OnStart
But when I place an email notification inside the DoWork sub...it never gets there.

But it's not doing the work
I should immediately see 500 records appear in SQL Server.

The code that's in the bwWorker_DoWork sub will start (locally) if I move it back to the OnStart sub

HERES THE CODE

    Public Sub New()
        ' This call is required by the designer.
        InitializeComponent()

        ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.
        bwWorker.WorkerReportsProgress = True
        bwWorker.WorkerSupportsCancellation = True

    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String)
        'Me.RequestAdditionalTime(60000)

        Try
            Dim bw As BackgroundWorker = New BackgroundWorker
            bw.RunWorkerAsync()
        Catch ex As Exception
            Dim erl As ExceptionLogger = Nothing
            erl.LogException(ex, ex.Message)
            EventLog.WriteEntry(erl.ToXML(ex, ex.ToString), Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error, 911)
        End Try
    End Sub

    Private Sub bwWorker_DoWork(sender As Object, e As DoWorkEventArgs) Handles bwWorker.DoWork
        'Get Phone List to monitor from SQL Server
        returnedPhoneTable = getPhoneListDT()

        'Set initial Thread COunter
        threadCounter = 1

        'Start Monitoring Phones
        getPhoneDataStream()
    End Sub

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