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Don't Follow Your Passion
November 30, 2018 at 7:21 pm




Enough said. Can't agree more.
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RE: Don't Follow Your Passion
November 30, 2018 at 7:33 pm
That’s eerie. Our commencement speaker at university said almost the same thing, something along the lines of, ‘Passion can blind you to your abilities. Know your limits and fight like hell to reach them.’

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November 30, 2018 at 7:41 pm (This post was last modified: November 30, 2018 at 7:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL< I wanted to be an artist when I was a kid (any kind, really).  

Yeah, I don't have that kind of discipline or talent.  Turns out I'm better at digging holes and pushing people into doing things (and holes). The Wife appreciated that one..she sells jobs and people for a living.
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RE: Don't Follow Your Passion
November 30, 2018 at 7:51 pm
I suppose, in a manner of speaking, I had the passion of not working for a living.  So I became a musician.

Nailed it.

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November 30, 2018 at 7:53 pm (This post was last modified: November 30, 2018 at 7:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So jelly.  Now, you're also a luthier though..right, or am I mis-remembering? That'd be more my speed than actually playing the damned things for a living. I can make anything..anything except for art. Wink
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RE: Don't Follow Your Passion
November 30, 2018 at 7:57 pm
I took my passion, I made it happen.
All I can say is, what a feeling!
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November 30, 2018 at 7:59 pm
(November 30, 2018 at 7:53 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: So jelly.  Now, you're also a luthier though..right, or am I mis-remembering?  That'd be more my speed than actually playing the damned things for a living.  I can make anything..anything except for art.  Wink

No, you’ve remembered correctly. Music got to be too much like a regular job. I wanted a change but wasn’t really qualified for anything else. Then a friend pointed that I’d always maintained my own gear (as well as that of other people in the trade), so it wasn’t really much of a step to become a luthier.

Hard to consider it ‘work’ though. At any given time I have 10-20 pieces out on spec and do custom work only when it suits me.

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