Author: Bluesparkle
Date: 2009-11-29 22:51
Welcome back. I'm here after a 25-year hiatus. I'm a real estate agent in real life, and that's how I make my money. It is an enjoyable career, and one in which I have found success. Sounds like you have also made your way in this world with your current career.
I work hard during the day and most weekends to pay the mortgage and the light bill. But when I'm done with work for the day it gives me tremendous pleasure to know that every week, I get to play with my church orchestra (yes, it includes some 7th graders and old folks who have come back). We don't even play hard music or sound particularly good, but we're all in it together. I just put together a quintet, and we got to play some holiday hymns this morning from the old Salvation Army Christmas book in the church narthex.
I'm playing with some of the local symphony players for our choir's Christmas cantata, and I am looking forward to that. I have willingly given up the idea that I will ever play professionally, as I have proven my professional skills lie elsewhere. There's no shame in that.
No...I'm not as good as I was when I was 20 years old (when I also thought I would be a professional musician). However, I know that when I was that age, making music started to become a chore, as the pressure of succeeding was high. Now it's purely for my own enjoyment, and hopefully for the enjoyment of the family and friends for whom I play. Now, music is NOT work...it's fun!
As others have suggested, find a group you can join so you can work toward the goal of performances. Spend your days on your career, and fill your free time with music. Just because you are not the best at something does not mean you close that door, never to be opened again. Music does feed the soul but not the stomach for most of us.
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