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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-04-30 16:00
Don't know if wjk has asked this one already or if it's an old topic (I searched, found nothing recent), but the science topic posted earlier made me curious what you do for a living.
Feel free to answer, even the pro musicians so those of us who don't know who all's who will know. Retirees, what did you do in the day?
Me, I work in PR, currently for a local community college. Once wanted to be a journalist but snapped out of it. Before that I was a music education major for a year before switching to communications. Interesting career path, but all told, I should've become an engineer. I dig science (especially aerospace) but never felt I was very good at it.t
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2003-04-30 16:07
Hi Ralph,
Here is the footer for my email so you can see I have a bunch of hats that I wear (depends on what day).
Professor: Aviation Institute, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Visiting Professor: Off-Campus Programs, Southern Illinois University
Director: Native IMAGE, Little Priest Tribal College; Winnebago, NE
I previousaly had 16 years as a high school and college band director; I continued to do a lot of private woodwind teaching as well. I am a certified flight instructor and have flown twin-engine props and a Citation jet in corporate service. I still work jazz and big band gigs, shows, and play the clarinet and sax in a community band and when needed in a local professional concert band.
HRL
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Author: Tim P
Date: 2003-04-30 16:46
I am a construction project manager for an outfit that builds hotels and condos at Ocean City, Maryland, USA.
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Author: William
Date: 2003-04-30 17:07
Retired school band director (strings, choral & gen. mus. also), occassionally substitue teaching for his old school district.
Musician (clars saxs & flute) involved in orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz ensemble, combo, theater and headliner gigs--waiting by the phone for "that next call."
(permanently assigned to the honey dew list as my "day job")
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Author: AJDar
Date: 2003-04-30 17:48
Greetings from a lurker for the past 3 weeks!
I found this board while researching a replacement for my 1977 Leblanc L7. (I'm having fun breaking in a new R13). I am an amateur who plays mostly in community and church groups.
I've worked as a medical technologist/clinical laboratory scientist in a hospital lab for over 20 years. Several years ago, I earned a residential homebuilder's license and built/sold 3 large home on a speculative basis while keeping my fulltime hospital job. It was rewarding but I decided to quit while I was ahead (i.e., hadn't gone bankrupt like most builders I knew)
The most challenging aspect I've faced in playing the clarinet was having jaw surgery 10 years ago. You can imagine the embouchure changes when 5 mm are cut out of each side of the mandible!
Darlene
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Author: marcia
Date: 2003-04-30 18:28
I live in Vancouver on the West Coast of B.C. In my working life I am a nurse, in the recovery room. Fortunately my schedule is very kind to my passion. I play with a community orchestra, a community band, a well recognised wind ensemble-not because I am so brilliant but because I am willing to play alto clarinet. Then there is the small group stuff! ie: woodwind quintet, clarinet quartet, and sax quartet (I am the second alto). No I don't do it all, all the time. The small groups only meet when everyone is available so it might be a couple of times a month, and sometimes it may not happen for several weeks. So I have a very full and varied musical life.
Marcia
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Author: leonardA
Date: 2003-04-30 18:30
I'm a lawyer and also an actor. I picked up the sax last year after a 40-year layoff, and then decided to go back and learn the clarinet from scratch so that I could eventually double. So I'm working on alto and tenor sax and clarinet, which really stretches my time, but I know it'll be worth it in the long run. I love this board. It has really been fun and helpful. One of the things I'd eventually like to do is play pit orchestra for a play.
Leonard Alterman
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Author: Jerry
Date: 2003-04-30 18:33
Community Planning, comprised of part manager, part public relations, part technician, part facilitator, and part problem solver.
Jerry
The Villages, FL
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-04-30 20:09
army bandsman
apprentice carpenter
copy editor
commercial artist
lawyer
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-04-30 20:10
Happily retired from a career in the oil and chemical business. Most recently, operations co-ordinator for my employer's Canadian chemical (polypropylene and oxygenated solvents) plants.
Hans, Master Bull Artist
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Author: MGarrison
Date: 2003-04-30 20:19
Software Project Manager / Business Systems Analyst
Marcia, I also live in Vancouver and am playing with the BC Regiment Association Band. Where do you play? Please feel free to contact me directly via email.
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Author: Fred
Date: 2003-04-30 20:24
Ex - Criminal Justice Training Director
Ex - Crime Lab Chemist
Currently - Chemist doing problem solving and root cause analysis in industry.
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Author: SusanB
Date: 2003-04-30 21:28
I am a former banker. I quit two years ago when my Mom had a stroke. The rehab people wanted to put her in an assisted living facility, but I thought she would do better with family, so she moved in with me. We are enjoying hanging out together.
I play Bb in our college's wind ensemble/symphonic band, summer municipal band, some bass clarinet in the local symphony, bass clarinet in a quartet, and I have just discovered another community summer band that I am going to join when they start next month. I played tenor sax in high school, and I am thinking about trying alto sax soon.
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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-30 21:57
I am a physician--- a profession which I love. Music is also a great love, and it has certainly made me a better doctor and a better person!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-04-30 21:59
Some of us have already posted personal info on Music and Science, an off-shoot of the Hydrogen Peroxide thread. I'm a retired chem engr from a major oil [and petrochemical] co, in its Research activities. The last half of my career was in their patent work, including idea promotion, art searching, application writing/filing/prosecution, validity and patentability study/searching [with the attorneys]. A "liberal" education! Then a number of years with Petroleum Abstracts, abstracting, concording and patent selection. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Jim
Date: 2003-04-30 22:09
Mow lawns.
Have a one person lawn service business.
Keeps me busy and out of trouble, and I get to be outside all the time.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-04-30 22:12
Retired. They pay me to stay away from the office...
PERMANENTLY
Worked as graphic artist for [CA] state printing plant about twenty-two years. During that time transferred to work a year at state locksmith shop - 'personality difference' prompted a transfer back to print shop. Prior to print shop worked as sign painter (the old fashioned kind), and prior to that, during and after high school, musical instrument repair shop worker.
Now that I've retired and can do as I please, I've re-kindled my first love and started a little woodwind repair business. So far it's keeping me as busy as I wanta be.
- ron b -
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-04-30 22:20
Retired from a research career in the Detergent/Personal Products, Foods, and Oil industries as a Physical Chemist (four different companies at various times). When two of the largest American oil companies merged a few years ago (I was working for one and had previously worked for the other), it was made attractive to retire! So I did. Now, I do some consulting but it is mostly music, bird watching, and home/lawn maintenance. Life could be worse!
Henry
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-01 00:00
I'm an administration officer for a large American Engineering company's Sydney office - by day. By night I teach music, am the MD of a G&S performing group, arranger, composer.
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Author: Guido
Date: 2003-05-01 00:15
Guidance counselor, great and public high school of 2100 students.
Rock climbing guide/trip leader, summer: NH, WY and Dolomites of Italy.
Clarinet/sax/arranger in small multicultural ensemble.
Guido
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2003-05-01 00:34
I teach about 35 students, make a few mouthpieces, do a little repair, do a little session work, play in the Huntsville Symphony, sub in the Nashville Symphony, take lots of audtions. This keeps me fairly busy.
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Author: Bryan
Date: 2003-05-01 00:53
Freelance proofreader & copyeditor. Used to be on the editorial staff of a New York publishing house, got laid off. Don't really miss the office that much. Or agents. Don't miss agents. Or personal pronouns. Have more time to practice my clarinet at home.
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Author: Karel
Date: 2003-05-01 03:50
Semiretired General Practitioner (medical) with regrets that I had not started learning to play the clarinet decades ago.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-05-01 04:03
I play the clarinet (and other woodwinds) 7 days a week, 4-8 hours a day, as many days as I can, and I'll do it for as long as I can.
I've played professionally for over 40 years, and love every minute of it.
Some advice:
Find something you love to do, and you'll always be happy.
If it stops being fun, then find something else to do, don't just complain.
If you're lucky enough to find something you love to do, and someone you love to be with, you've got it made!
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-05-01 06:21
Working musician, mostly as a saxophonist in pop situations and a doubler in theatre situations. (but was a clarinet major in college) Teaching full-time since 1999, gigging and also involved in community and church ensembles. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
Allen Cole
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2003-05-01 14:00
Research chemist with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA. Administrator of the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program which assures the quality of testing babies for metabolic diseases (e.g. PKU) in the U.S. and now 37 countries.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-05-01 14:05
Self empoloyed specialist woodwind repair technician.
Ex-school teacher, ex-computer programmer.
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Author: msloss
Date: 2003-05-01 14:49
Porn star. OK, maybe not.
-Investment management (pays the bills)
-Freelance clarinetist/saxophonist and private instructor (pays for everything else)
Own and operate private studio and record company (sucks up all the free cash from the other two activities, but will hopefully takes the place of the first)
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Author: Vic
Date: 2003-05-01 14:54
I'm an organizational development consultant and also an adjunct professor of organizational theory and behavior.
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Author: larryb
Date: 2003-05-01 16:31
work for a water supply utility on agricultural pollution prevention
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-05-01 16:57
Chaotic career. Partial list, in no special order: Program, marketing, and general manager re technical stuff. Writer. Design, project, and systems engineer. Radio broadcaster now and then, everything from announcer to station owner. Teacher: Physics, Chemistry, Geoscience. US Army SFC, taught maintenance of radar and computer systems. Technician. Clarinet player (also sax, flute, and singer, the way to more gigs). If anything at which I would really be the best ever comes up, maybe I'd stick with it.
Now retired for the third time, wondering what to do for my next act. Married to a much younger woman who makes good money, not at all a bad way to go through life.
Regards,
John
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-05-01 16:58
Corporate and other accounting, personal income tax, tax planning. Another tax season just finished yesterday!!
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Author: John O'Janpa
Date: 2003-05-01 17:02
Recently disabled by post polio syndrome.
Before that was an Environmental Enginneer working primarily in pollution prevention, remediation, water treatment, wastewater treatment, etc. involving groundwater, drinking water, domestic wastewater, and industrial wastewater. One of the few who worked in pollution control, prior to the passage of the Clean Water Act, and the formation of the EPA.
My main activities now are participating in my local college wind symphony, and my church orchestra.
I'll probably never get much past intermediate level on clarinet, but I'm having a great time trying. So far nobody has "fired" me from the groups I'm in. I've learned not to play during the rests, and even finished ahead of a few people in the last couple of wind symphony auditons.
I'll continue to play clarinet as long as I'm physically able to, and as long as I perceive progress in my playing (no matter how slight).
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-05-01 17:23
Mechanical engineer and project manager for an aerospace company. A few bucks on the side playing saxes and clarinets in big bands, combos, community orchestras and shows; and overhauling/repairing clarinets and saxes and refacing mouthpieces.
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Author: jenna
Date: 2003-05-01 17:25
Worked as a cashier and baker in high school, and did some web and graphic design on the side. Then got a nice internship/job at a local paper, in the newsroom.
Currently studying Journalism (concentrating on print and new media) and Political Science at Rutgers University.
I'd like to maybe be involved with magazines, or perhaps something internet related, if that evolves nicely.
jenna
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-05-01 17:34
In more or less order (things I made and still sometimes make money at after completing school):
Hydraulic/pneumatic control systems development for nuclear reactors
Fatigue/failure determination via acoustic signature engineer (also involved with anti-submarine techniques during the same time)
"generic" Computer programmer
Bass player in jazz/rock/CW bands
Car crash/FEM/FEA simulation programming
Computer graphics algorithms/development (member of ANSI X3H3.1)
CAD/CAM systems development
Multi-processor algorithms/tuning
Large-scale (> 1 terabyte data) Oracle performance tuning
J2EE B2B application architect
Unemployed
Now doing research and development on efficient replicated WAN file systems (Ford "owns" me at the moment - so a Ford patent on my R&D is in the works - the Ford attorneys are reviewing the application now. My 1st (probable) one! ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif) )
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-05-01 18:05
Mark,
Share with us how you made money being unemployed! Or make an infomercial!
Read once you lived in Detroit but worked in Austin. I have a cousin who works hi-tech in Austin but did a lot of business in Detroit. Tech types are a dime a dozen in Austin, but I got curious if you ever crossed paths. But perhaps that's a "Are you from New York? Do you know Tony Johnson?"-type thing. .
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-05-01 18:16
Ralph G wrote:
> Mark,
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> Share with us how you made money being unemployed! Or make an
> infomercial!
Went to the unemployment office. Filled out some paperwork. They sent me money.
Significantly less than I was accustomed to ...
> Read once you lived in Detroit but worked in Austin. I have a
> cousin who works hi-tech in Austin but did a lot of business in
> Detroit.
I ended up unemployed in Austin. Rather than be one of those "dime-a-dozen" techies (a reality in Austin right now "fer shure"), I came back to Detroit and got a new job
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-05-01 18:23
Oh, the old-fashioned way. I thought it was another ingenious Mark C. idea. Kudos to your better days now.s
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: Mark M
Date: 2003-05-01 19:06
Electromagnetic Compatibility/lightning engineer for major aerospace co. in Seattle for 26 yrs. (Guess which one??) Can't fly using a cell phone or laptop? (Because of electronic interference) Well, that's the type of work I do.
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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2003-05-01 19:55
Last job was director in charge of e-business (smart card and internet based payment technologies) for a large American credit card company in its middle-eastern base.
Went back to France two years ago and kept the same job (imaging "commuting" between Paris and Dubai!) before resigning 6 months after my return back to France. Now a happy house husband (wify's got a good job with a American (again, we love you guys!) company in its french base).
Have started looking for a job in the classical music industry, could end-up being in charge of a lyrical institute specialized in French singing.
Have picked up the clarinet 18 months ago and am madly in love with anything related to it (except a few damn reeds of course...).
Stéphane.
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Author: Allie
Date: 2003-05-01 23:28
We've got a lot of science people 'round here.......maybe that explains all the reed-adjusting discussions (=sometimes gripe sessions!!) ;-)
Highschool keeps me busy, but on top of that I work several days a week as a (Doctors' office) file clerk. I have a great respect for all you people in the medical profession, and hope in a few years to join the ranks as a nurse.
~Allie
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Author: lowclarinetman
Date: 2003-05-02 01:57
I play full time in the monterrey, mexico symphony orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica UANL, as their utility clarinet.(bass/Eb and 2nd clarinet when they want me to play that). I also teach clarinet and saxophone at a local music school.
Other than that I practice and try to hussle gigs. Thinkng about teaching some english classes to make a few extra bucks.
Playing music for you bread is the best way i can imagine living and it is amazing what we are willing to sacrifice to make that happen
Living the dream
bob
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Author: R13A
Date: 2003-05-02 04:24
clarinetist
mgr. of corp contracts
contracts mgr.
contractor
4 fractures of the neck, trashed spinal cord, mini stroke........let's me......
practice, practice, practice
I guess 'retired' ![[happy]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley12.gif)
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Author: glin
Date: 2003-05-02 04:33
Electrical engineer for a mechanical electrical and plumbing engineering firm in the Washington DC area. Primarily, most of work involves designing systems for buildings.
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Author: Jas
Date: 2003-05-02 05:44
Depends on the time of year and day of the week I suppose, but here goes...
- Radio Broadcaster, (used to be full time, now.. part time) currently producing talk shows and yakin' occassionally on the air.
- At home Dad
- Play year round in community band.
- Play summer gigs (paid, for a change) with another band.
- Teaching Assistant in the music program at my kids' school.
- Teach my radio trade occasionally at the community college.
- Shopping mall Santa Claus
- Improv actor for dinner theatres (used to)
- I'm sure I'm nowhere near Gordon' (NZ)'s skill level (as I have relied on him and others for their wisdom) but I repair woodwind instruments on occassion.
Not much... but it's a living. ![[whoa]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie10.gif)
Jas
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Author: Garret
Date: 2003-05-02 06:17
Dentist in a general/family practice,
formerly a microbiologist for Washington State Public Health
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2003-05-02 06:50
Grew up in the UK, the only music-crazy child in a family totally unmusical. Worked during vacation, bought a cheap guitar and taught myself to read music. Studied science, worked in France nine years (what I'd give to go back!) and took piano lessons.
Now a scientist in Italy with 2 young kids just starting piano and trumpet. Been playing clarinet only three months and love it!
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Author: johnh
Date: 2003-05-02 17:03
Business Operations Manager for large Managment Consulting firm in No. Virginia.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-05-02 17:18
In reverse chronological order:
Computer Support person in an auto components plant.
[Certified Enterprise Integrator, Society of Manufacturing Engineers]
Programmer Analyst (20 years).
Stage hand
Auto mechanic
Clarinetist
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Author: Jen L.
Date: 2003-05-02 17:54
Astronomer with a space telescope mission, in the data processing group.
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-05-02 18:07
I have the perfect job.
take care of 4 horses
3 dogs
1 cat
read
nap
play with the computer
play with my clarinet
nap
watch the market
nap
owner builder of a log house
nap
at the end of another perfect day I thank the good Lord for all my blessings and go to bed.
It is a tough life but someone has to do it.
peace
I'm retired after 30 years of selling drugs.a
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-05-02 18:26
Sounds like a good life! But isn't the DEA after you? How have you been able to elude them for 30 years?
Sorry, Bob, I just couldn't resist!
Henry
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-05-02 20:34
henry it is easy.....just hang out in doctors offices and hospitals. they never look in any of the right places. heck we have signs over all the longs, walmarts etc. saying DRUG for sale.n
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2003-05-02 21:01
litigation lawyer (labour and commercial law with a dash of malpractice now and then for fun);
three-kid mom, engineer's wife, owner of dog who considers himself a music critic;
tetiana
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Author: Burt
Date: 2003-05-02 21:48
I design electronic components (physicist by study, EE in practice). In fall 2000, I went part-time and enrolled at University of North Texas in music. Also, I earn enough money for reeds playing gigs.
Burt
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Author: Laurie
Date: 2003-05-02 22:00
I'm a professional Student. lol. Actually I'm in my Freshman year of Music School, with hopes to become a teacher/performer. Over the summer I teach privately, and I work in a major hospital-medical center as a pharmacy tech/drug runner.
Laur
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Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2003-05-03 00:13
In my late teens and all through my twenties, I made my living in several different ways, even music for awhile.
In my heart I feel those times slipped away just yesterday.
Then my head reminds me that I have been a lawyer for the past 31 years.
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Author: clarob
Date: 2003-05-03 03:30
Physical therapist, owner of private practice. Also play oboe- but not as well. Looking for new music group to join- anyone know of one outside philadelphia?
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Author: John Morton
Date: 2003-05-03 04:12
Machinist for a physics lab and a university mechanical engineering department for the last 20 yrs., before that lived in the Canadian woods and had 50+ assorted jobs of every description, and you better believe that degree in German Literature comes in handy every day!
Builder of metal resonator-type fretted instruments, player of clarinet, guitar and ukulele, lover of pre-war jazz and Applachian oldtime dance music, climber of rock cliffs.
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-05-03 11:47
I own a company that produces multimedia projects such as educational DVD's, CD's, 3D animations and web sites primarily in the medical/healthcare area. I/we also do a fair bit of video/photographic projects. I also do consulting work in economics. Undergraduate chemistry/physics, graduate in internet marketing and ecnomics.
Other activities include, pilot (inst,me), scuba diving (instr trainer not current), fencing, competitive HP rifle shooting, astronomy. Played clarinet almost through HS, dropped it and started again last year.
Best
Rick
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2003-05-03 15:40
Research Fellow, designs algorithms to understand how the brain works.
Fascinating stuff.
-S
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2003-05-04 00:44
Dan- I might go to the FSU Summer Camp this year with my friend who plays Tuba. That would be my first time going to Tallahassee- I havent strayed far from Miami when it comes to traveling in the U.S.
Bradley
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Author: john gibson
Date: 2003-05-05 01:37
Was professional rock and roll drummer in the 60s San Francisco...(with lots of stories given the time)
Now....radio talk show host and news anchor in Phoenix Arizona....
Interesting how many "journalist types" there are on this billboard. As well as doctors......
BUT......and its a big but......in mt heart of hearts....my profession is music.
Has been since about 8 years old and now I'm 52!
The Real John Gibson
(not the one on FOX)
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Author: Wes
Date: 2003-05-05 02:59
Well, I was a cowboy in North Dakota many years ago.
Later, I became an electrical engineer. My theme song became "Ohm, Ohm on the Range!".
I've studied and played the clarinet my whole life, but not on horseback.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-05-05 10:47
1) Player
Freelance professional in Sydney specialising in traditional traditional and modern jazz clarinet, alto, C melody and tenor sax's. I play both legit and jazz bassoon and carry one jazz piano gig in memory of what might have been. I do other commercial gigs, Yugoslav bands (Macedonian, Slovenian etc..) and a little military band playing.
50%
2) Instrument Repairer
I am also a band instrument repairer working with woodwind and brass instruments. Everything from Murumatsu flutes to Besson BBb Tubas. My specialty is saxophone and bassoon. I do voicings on sax and double reeds.
50%
3) Saxophone Teacher
Because I enjoy it.
20%
Live life to the full.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-05-05 15:00
So Mark, what kind of reeds do you use when you play Slovenian jazz bassoon? (Now that has to be a unique Google hit.)
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-05-05 15:39
Play clarinet in a symphony orchestra
Teach clarinet and saxophone privately
work as a studio musician and freelance....
torture students relentlessly...
do minor clarinet repair work....
read extensively and enjoy
doing musical shows
play in a number of concert bands and
of course, sleep
David Dow
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Author: William Hughes ★2017
Date: 2003-05-05 15:58
John Scorgie wrote:
"In my heart I feel those times slipped away just yesterday.
Then my head reminds me that I have been a lawyer for the past 31 years."
Me too.
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Author: Ted
Date: 2003-05-05 16:50
School Music teacher ( quarter tones don't sound strange anymore !!!)
Band - Orchestra Director
Woodwind Jazz , Funk, R&B Player
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-05-05 17:38
Very recently retired high school music teacher (after 30 years).
Play every weekend in a big band (alto sax), a dixieland combo (clarinet) and any other odd gigs that arise.
Still teach a large number of private students.
Play principal clarinet in a local regional orchestra.
Wife is a successful speech pathologist who happily lets me pursue my love of music...GBK
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Author: Ralph
Date: 2003-05-06 00:33
Mechanical engineer by training. I've been a mechanical designer for an airplane manufacturer, field engineer for a turbine manufacturer, planner/scheduler, project manager, application engineer, and an account manager.
I started playing clarinet 2 years ago after a 15 year hiatus. I currently play in a community band. Hopefully I can migrate into a smaller group or a clariner choir in the future.
Ralph
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-05-07 00:08
Medical transcriptionist.
Dixieland clarinet (does not pay well).
Play clarinet in trio (pays well).
Get bossed around by an Australian Terrorist (terrier) named Lulu.
Get bossed around by a husband (drummer) named Jack.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-07 00:33
LOL @ Carol - Aussie terriors ARE very surly at the best of times
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Author: Cindy
Date: 2003-05-07 01:06
I think I don't really earn enough for a living, but I teach younger clarinetists in my spare time, as well as directing a childern's choir.
So many instruments to play........so little time to play them!
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-05-07 01:50
I'm a college student studying clarinet and composition. I work as a private teacher for area junior/senior high schools. I also occasionally do wedding gigs with my dad who plays classical guitar (not often though).
I've actually had a couple works commissioned from my school (not so much commissioned since they didn't pay me... I guess they paid my in experience and performance exposure).
Don
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Author: PolyphonicKat
Date: 2003-05-07 05:24
I'm currently unemployed enjoying my last year as a "teenager" before I start college and turn twenty this fall
I'll be going to the community college for pharmacy tech then on the university of north texas for pharmacy and hopefully UT in Austin to complete pharmacy school
Unless I decide I don't like pharmacy then I'll go for English and writing...
I play clarinet mainly for my own enjoyment but may take a few music classes...
Looking for a job that doesn't frown on tattoos piercings or multi-colored hair....probably about to be a night cashier at Wal Mart or go to work for Hot Topic though I'd rather not work in the mall
Kat
http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com
check out that link to experience a 25 piece psychadelic orchestra including the former members of Tripping Daisy
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2003-05-07 16:02
After getting degrees in math and chemical engineering, I effectively became a petroleum engineer doing research/computer modeling in a major oil-field services firm once headed by Dick Cheney, but in the pre-Cheney days. When I finally got a degree in petroleum engineering (M.S.), I became a software engineer. Most recently, I've been developing software for automating chemistry labs, but that has come to a close.
Currently, I'm the bookkeeper, tax accountant, systems administrator, purchasing agent, human resources administrator and business advisor for my wife's growing technical documentation firm.
(And if you count receiving an annual stipend for playing in a university marching band, I was once a very poorly paid professional musician.)
If I had it to do all over again, I'd skip the engineering stuff and become a math professor, despite the likely cut in income.
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Author: BeckyC
Date: 2003-05-07 17:05
Full time Mom (which we all know includes.....Dr., Nurse, Magic BooBoo healer, Mechanic, Plumber, Referee, Judge & Jury, Counselor, Chef & Server, Coach, Chauffeur, etc........)
Home School 4 children,
Work part time + as a Daycare/Preschool Teacher.
The Clarinet is MY STRESS RELIEVER!! (and my kids know that!!! For some reason the dog hasn't learned to back off when I play.......UGHH!)
Gotta say, I love every minute of it.
BeckyC
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Author: Sue G
Date: 2003-05-07 19:02
Hi,
I'm a social worker by trade - now social services manager.
Sue
:)
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Author: Bass Clarinet
Date: 2003-05-10 09:10
Wow...lots of environment people!
Today was the last day of my freshman year of college! One year down, three to go. I'm majoring in Earth Science (emphasis in Enviromental Science). Don't ask me what I want to do with it though---once music wasn't an option, it was all I had. But I'm learning more about the field almost on a daily basis, and I think it's where I belong.
This summer, I've got my eye on this internship with EnviroCitizen down in Denver---my fingers are crossed...
But, if I don't get it, I'll just work at some place with a less extreme commute, like Target...heh heh...
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Author: snjshipley
Date: 2003-05-11 21:40
Retired Boeing mechanical engr..............enjoying playing again and get almost as much fun studying clarinet mechanics and acoustic theory.
Stan Shipley
Woodinville, WA
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Author: franmosh
Date: 2003-05-12 02:58
physician/acupuncturist
mom to three kids and a dog
This is my second year of clarinet lessons...I started after 9/11 as anxiety therapy and it worked!
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2003-05-12 14:09
I am a bank trust officer doing personal trust management, thinking about getting into the charitable planned giving field. I play in several local (Portland, OR) orchestras and chamber music groups mostly as a sub and expert second player. I also run a little internet based sheet music publishing business, to be unnamed here, but a sponsor of Woodwind.org.
The other real John Gibson.
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Author: rockymountainbo
Date: 2003-05-12 14:32
I am a Manager of a Customer Support Dept. for a financial software company called CQG, Inc. out of Denver, CO. I majored in PR at the University of Florida, used to work in radio, but for the last 7 years have worked in the computer field. Thinking of relocating to the Tampa/St. Pete area within the next 2 years.
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Author: Veldeb
Date: 2003-05-14 16:14
Environmental Scientist, Choral music director, bass section leader for a community chorale, and clarinetist in DC's Different Drummers Symphonic Band, and marching band, and Eb sop player in a quartet "La Reeda Loca" hailing from Arlington VA (yes.. near the cemetery...) Blake
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