average age?, previous profession?

[Jim Kinnear]

I learned to tune pianos while watching the 'real' tuner work on the pianos
in our garage,
where the rebuilt players that my father hed refurbished were readied for
sale.
This as a teenager, and a decade or two later, took tuning up in earnest.
But first , a career as a child therapist,
with a brief interval managing a music store in Brampton,
then back to running a high security psych unit for teens,
a stint with a board of Ed, and then a recycling operation . .

Yikes, no wonder I like the piano tuning gig !
My own schedule, customers who are happy to see me,
pay me to do something I like . .

How many of you are performing musicians . . ?
I had a great time New Years Eve !

Jim Kinnear, Collingwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Bondi" <phil@philbondi.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: average age?, previous profession?


> I started out being a piano player out of college..went to work for GE
> in a Plastics plant for a few too many years still playing when I could,
> then decided that I needed to get back to do what I do best..and that
> was play..but then I moved to Florida, where I discovered that being a
> full-time musician was going to lead me into poverty..so..here I am..not
> living in poverty, in demand, and fairly happy.
>
> It feels like I've just been to the therapist!
>
> Phil Bondi(Fl)
>
>
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