| Nice one, Brad!
I love the closer on your post! I think that really sums it up greatly!
I was once fired from a steady gig which caused me much pain. Granted, I had some difficult moments leading up to the point where I got canned. However, the summer I got let go I was seriously on the mend. My playing had come back after a bad spell, and I could demonstrate this. The frustration for ME was that I found out I was getting seriously bad mouthed behind my back by some of the rest of the folks in the band. I had taken to keeping to myself a bit - not going to the bar with the guys in the band after gigs. A buddy of mine kept aksing me, "why don't you hang out? It might be a good idea." I explained that, part of my re-couping and growth process included being quiet after gigs, and there was no personal slam intended by my abscence. It turned out he was trying to get me to trun up to defend myself a bit. Well at least one dude was being helpful.
The reason the contractor offered to me when he let me go was that, "Now that you have a day gig, you can't maintain your playing, so we'll need to replace you." The darn thing for me was that, it was my day gig that gave me the time to rebuild my chops after some difficulties surfaced.
Now, this was over 15 years ago, and I'm cool with this history, now. This definitely shades how I look at other players when they might experience some difficulty, now and then.
OK, I'm rambling.
TTFN
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