working-kirk ....
> Is there ANYTHING you wouldn't do, or haven't done to get work? :wink:
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With all the clubs closing due to disco and other reasons, I think everyone will have to be willing to do almost anything and everything :wink: :wink:
In the past three months, I know of two clubs that have stopped having live music in Portland where I live.
The fact I am getting gigs. (lots of weddings where someone decided to get married at the last minute and want a trumpet player at that last minute,)
I am making a living (barely) with the ecomony sinking like a rock and clubs closing says something about either my persistence, talent or luck or maybe all three.
And I am getting to become known among trumpet players and the people of Portland says a lot about me.
I have had over 250 jobs before I stopped counting. (It is depressing to think you can't hold a job.) There have been very bad jobs and very good jobs, as well as strange and interesting. The shortest was I got three jobs in a day and fired before lunch from all of them. THe longest averaged about 3 years. At least one of the best was my last. I was a system analyst. I can't say the name because of non-disclosure (But I am allowed to put in on my resume as long I add I was working as a contractor. Think big computers and think of three letters.) That lasted a year and a half. It was a good gig cause I got to play my horn on the job.
Now, it is no more jobs. It "Gigs" for me. Disco seems like a good gig, especially if I can bring it back. Of course I tried to bring back vaudeville and you can see what happened in my auctions. Anyway Disco is bound to be one of my adventures on cable tv and Ebay auctions in THE LAND OF TRUMPET!