Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 1999/05

From: Rachael <davidor@-----.il>
Subj: Re: [kl] programmers and Music
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 04:34:40 -0400

I am an working music teacher in Jerusalem, but alas, it is hard to support a
family, so I am taking the advise of my father, which grown children usually don't
do, or didn't do in this last generation. Anyway, my father worked for 40 years
in the Aerospace industry, and when I was looking for a profession that would feed
my family, he suggested that I learn programming. "Why?" I asked. "Because in my
hiring experience," he said,"we have found that musicians make good programmers."

So I enrolled in a course in C/C++ programming. I find the coursework
challenging, and admitably, I do spend more time on my homework than I do on
playing, but I am keeping up with my students and my own practising clarinet. When
I finish the course sometime this summer, I will go out an look for a position in
the Israeli Hi-Tech field, which is one of the industries that is not in
recession.

Programming seems to be similar to music, because both have very strict rules that
have to be followed, but if a person is clever and talented enough, you can break
the rules, and come up elegant solutions as well.

If I had listened earlier to my father, I would have taken programming in the 80's
when I was at UCLA instead of being an Anthropology Major. I would have still
played in the Concert Band!

Rachael Orbach
davidor@-----.il
Jerusalem

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