>In a sense I agree with you, Ron. But if high school kids aren't even told >about piano tuning as a way to make a living, they won't even consider it. Hi Willem, There's another sort of left handed, back handed, oblique point to all this as well. I've always believed that each and every one of us is an absolute certifiable genius at SOMETHING. Almost nobody ever finds out what they really should be doing with their lives, early or late. I wouldn't have been interested in being a piano tuner in high school, and I'm not particularly interested in it now. It's the associated aspects of the business that tuning got me into that I find so endlessly fascinating, and nothing anyone could have told me about piano tuning when I was 17 would have particularly piqued my interest. The money is quite decent for the demands of tuning, and the variety of people I meet in the process have certainly proven to be worth the price of admission, but I would never have known that until I had done it. I worked in a rebuilder's shop long before I got into tuning, and frankly learned to tune as a means to secure shop work, not because I wanted a tuning career. Someday, I may yet stumble across that thing for which I am most suited. Come to that, I may already have looked it in the face and not recognized it for what it was, but I'm pretty satisfied with the choice I've made. I've chosen a few odd side paths of a not terribly colorful (sorry Ed, that wasn't intentional <G>) or glamorous profession that have the potential to keep me thinking, challenged, and enthusiastic for a long time yet. I think I'm getting into the ball park of the kind of thing that suits me, and it's not tuning, and no one could have possibly anticipated all this when I was in high school. Least of all me. Another point please, if you're still out there. I have met literally dozens of people, not that old, who have made it a point to inform me that they too used to tune pianos, but went on to something else that better suited them. That's the other side of this coin. Night all, Ron N
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