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Thread: A Career in Forestry or Music?
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27th November 2021, 09:06 AM #1
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A Career in Forestry or Music?
A relatively famous composer said this, "(As I grew up) I no longer thought of anything but music and the art of forestry was neglected." Forestry was his family's profession, his father was a forester as was his grandfather and he was destined to be as well. In those days, the word forester was interchangeable with game keeper which doesn't serve my story as well.
That was Gluck, of amongst other things, The Dace of the Blessed Spirits.
Me, my background and training was in forestry, my daily job is growing trees and sawing a few of them up but I have been paid to be a music teacher, admittedly a totally second grade one as a substitute as there was no one else for the job, but there you go!
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28th November 2021, 09:14 AM #2
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28th November 2021, 09:49 AM #3
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Reminds me a bit of the Austrian Physics Professor I worked for in the US. Story was by the time he left school he was a concert level trumpet player and was offered a position in a top rated Vienna orchestra. But much to his parents disappointment he pursued physics at which he was very successful. When I caught up with him later in life he told me he preferred to employ scientists with music abilities as it made them better scientists, and I do recall many of his underlings were quite musical. When I asked why he had hired me, as my music abilities were limited to strumming a few chords on a guitar, his response was somewhat vague - along the lines of - you seemed like someone who would get something done.
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28th November 2021, 08:25 PM #4
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Bluff and Bravado Win Again
I needed a good job so I became a high school science and maths teacher for a few years. As a result of that ,I now think there is extra no hope for the planet but that is something else. I then became a very occasional primary school relief teacher. One day they said to me that they needed a replacement for the music teacher. They said all I needed to do was to look after her classes. They didn't mind what I did except I needed to keep them occupied. They went on to say that if I taught them music, they would consider it a bonus and they wouldn't ask any questions. Well, it was an opportunity I couldn't resist. I had had a few piano lessons as child but had never even been to a school music class. For the next little time, it was Ecncy-Weency Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and all the way to A Teddy Bears Picnic. At the end of the time, they asked me to extend. I told them I had come to the end of my limited repertoire but they said, don't worry, all is good! It shows you what bluff and bravado can do!