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Re: Some advice for a performance major?

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2015-08-27 19:42

I still wish I could thank the guy who, courtesy of his Chevrolet Blazer and his impatience with stop signs, brought my professional playing career to a halt back in the early '70s.

I've had more fun and more gratification (and more financial security) teaching and playing after a 26-year absence than my friends, with VERY few exceptions, who followed the professional playing track.

No matter how good a player you might become, most (IMNSHO) of your success in striving for a full-time professional career will be based on luck, academic credentials (nowadays), and your contacts, not on your ability.

Are you willing to lose your love of playing because you have to deal with the rat race of developing a professional playing career? It's happened a lot, and it was starting to happen to me until that episode at the intersection of Route 6 and Deschler Road.

B.

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