Klarinet Archive - Posting 000197.txt from 2003/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Documentary on London Philharmonia Orchestra on Ovation
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:33:08 -0400

> I haven't burned out from my profession
> (chemistry) or my day job (teaching)

Burn out happens in any profession, but I wonder if it occurs more often
in music than (say) in teaching (which also has a high burn-out rate)?
When speaking of science professions, such as chemistry, one anecdote in
particular sticks with me --- perhaps because of its poetic nature.
It's in "Hackers" by Steven Levy. He tells about a computer engineer
who was working under great deadline pressure. A chip was, by design,
changing its state faster than any available meter could record, but the
chip was also malfunctioning. Diagnostic clues were limited.
Pressure from management to find the answer mounted.... One day when
his co-workers came to work, there was a note on his work bench (this
may not be verbatim):

"Nothing faster than a natural season", and the fellow never showed up
at work again, not even to collect his pay check.

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