From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018051008470239276-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > medical, not life threatening ( unless ignored, obviously )   
      
   Not fun.   
      
   > you call a plumper when you need a plumber.  Places call me when they need   
   > a musician.   Sometimes, like on a cancellation, they need one now, not in   
   > a few days when I might feel like dropping over.   
      
   Strange kind of comparison ;)   
      
   > If music were your job, you'd see it that way. Or, it wouldn't be your job   
   > for very long :-)   
      
   I see it as a Labor of Love. When electroacoustics was my 'job', actually a   
   career, it was still first and foremost a Labor of Love also.   
      
   > I do seem to lack the ability to part ways with them, huh ?   
      
   No, not so much that as their apparent inability to GROW UP!   
      
   > I'm not that keen on working ( playing music ) for free.  I'll do it, if   
   > it's for some good reason.  But not if I'm just making someone else money   
   > and none is coming my way.   
      
   Well no, there's no point in being exploited...that's not what a gift   
   economy is about - we've got much more than enough that  already in the Root   
   of All Evil system.   
      
   > I enjoy just playing when there's no one else to hear.  Do it a lot,   
   > pretty much every evening.  Songs I like.   
      
   Jim   
      
   That's too lonely for me.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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