| Would you do anything different if you could rechoose your career?
Being a "lurker" on this and other trumpet sites the past few years sometimes has me wishing I had done things a little differently 35 years ago. You pros talk about "giging" and "auditions" and "students" and at one time, I was headed down the professional musician path and thought in those terms. Then, as a college freshman music major, I developed this fear that if music were my livelyhood, it would become work and I could lose my passion for trumpet and music, so I got out of music...still play the trumpet (church, a quintet, municipal band, and a civic orchestra as family and job allow...).
Anyone else sometimes second guess their choice not to play full time?
Or the other way around? Is it hard to maintain the zeal day after day?
Just wondering...For discussion's sake...
Regards,
Jon Paschka |