(September 22, 2017 at 12:23 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Dr Fuzzy, if you hate it so much and think so lowly of the establishment/people who employ you, why not try to find a job someplace else?
If I could find anything musical that only required weekend and one evening work, I would. I haven't managed it yet.
I got a second Masters on top of my Doctorate in the hopes that I could make a lucrative career change. Didn't work. Tip: never give up a job or change careers after 50.
I like a lot of the music (but try to tune out the lyrics). There are a lot of people that I love in that group. But yes, the lyrics and the homilies really get to me sometimes.
There are more atheists working as church musicians than most people think. (There is even an "Atheist Church Musician" group here.) I was a self-employed musician for 30 years. It sucks. You have to take EVERY gig you can find. That means that I have played for nearly every religious group in the area. The only problem is that if you're in a Catholic or Protestant church, people think that you're doing it as "your ministry to the Lord" -- and many are shocked to find that the keyboardists and choir directors get paid.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
