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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2005-02-19 04:15
Dont' leave your day job. Now, there is a phrase I carried with me for many years of being a banker/musician. But I have done just that. I left my day job as a bank officer over a year ago and now spend full time on my sheet music publishing business and private teaching. I love it.
I am wondering if there are others out there on this BBoard who have done the same thing....and how it is working out?
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Author: Meri
Date: 2005-02-19 16:46
I left my day job as a real estate assistant...it was tough going in the first few months, but now things are really starting to flourish, teaching a nearly-full load of students plus the performing/recording gigs I get. (Though this week was a bad week because a referral fell through and an adult student decided not to continue (her son gave his mom a Christmas gift of a private clarinet lesson, she was doing very well, but thought it was too hard...)
Meri
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-02-21 01:38
As I heard it, Steve Hendrickson (principal trumpet in the Washington, DC National Symphony) was a stockbroker, playing gigs on the side, and one day decided to go full-time as a musician and landed himself the NSO gig (wish I had that kind of talent AND guts!).
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2005-02-21 16:14
Dave, I'd bet HE wishes he has YOUR talent (and a donkey). Who else does such fine work on bass restorations and mpc facings? Bet he don't.
Bob A
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-02-21 20:22
My scenario is opposite ... after years playing professionally I left and now work in Marketing for a huge American company's Aussie head office. I now enjoy only undertaking musical activities that I want to ... mostly composing and arranging these days, with a little teaching.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-02-21 23:20
JohnQ,
That was quite a bold step and I commend you for following your heart on this one. I would probably be more apt to "play it safe" (as I'm doing right now) rather than take the risk. But you did, and it's paying off. Congrats!!!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: chipper
Date: 2005-02-22 13:12
23 years at the same day job, a wife and two teenagers to support and seven years until a 60% pension. Typically our careers start off as interesting exciting and meaningful but this morning when I came into the office and everything was as I left it on Friday I felt like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. The good Lord willing, I'll survive seven years by developing a meaningful life outside of work. March 12 I start classes to get a license to run charter and tour boats. Been working on the clarinet for a year and a half loving every minute and figuring that when my wife and I retire (we plan to spend three to six months a year in a different town each year) with her flute and my clarinet we can join the local civic band in the town to get to know people. Gotta have a plan.
C
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Author: music_is_life
Date: 2005-02-22 13:29
I know this guy- think he's in his late 40s, early 50s, who went to college to study chemistry and was about a year (maybe it was 2...) away from getting his PhD, when he just completely left that part of his life, bought a Dobro, something he had never played in his life, and went on to become a grammy award winner. any piece of that info might be incorrect, so excuse me if I am wrong... his name is Stacy Phillips. I don't know how many bluegrass fans there are out there, but he's awesome. I've seen him live a few times, had some conversations with him, e-mail him.... he seems happy, having taken on the life of a musician rather than getting that PhD.
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