Firestas'1

From what I've seen a lot of us are not professional full time musicians as much as most of us would like to be; so what do you do for a living and what about your job really doesn't agree with you, in short what about your job sucks that you wish you knew about before entering that line of work?

Help someone considering a new line of work make an informed decision by not just hilighting the good points of a job!

I'll start, I am an Auto Damage Appraiser for a major insurance carrier. The days can get quite long, people can be downright belligerent not to mention out right liars when discussing damage to their cars. Supervisors are constantly nit picking at little tiny mistakes you make in your estimates and every year they set absolutely un attainable goals for you to achieve so that when at the end of the year you don't make them they have an excuse to downsize your annual increase.

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Stan J.

What is to reach the heart must come from above. If it does not, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
--Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is God's best gift to man. The only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.
--Letitia Elizabeth Landon

40cal

State Trooper

People drive too fast, almost hit me, shoot at me, punch, spit, kick, yell, scream, call me names, runaway on foot, runaway in motor vehicles, the media hates me, the average person hates me unless I'm cutting them out of their seatbelt as they are inverted on an interstate and their car is smoking, I work holidays, weekends, odd hours, I get called in to work in the middle of the night, I sat outside refineries and nuclear power plants after terrorist attacks and elevated threat levels, and I miss all kinds of stuff w/my kids because I'm at work.

I love my job.

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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day so that my child may have peace.”

Thomas Paine 1737-1809

“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd

gregc

I work in a US federal government research facility; radiation detection, measurement, and protection a specialty! There's nothing wrong with my job........... till something goes wrong. I also volunteer as a radiological 1st responder. That's where the real fun is, he he he ........ anyway, I have to be 'ON' mentally, all the time. I guess that could be a 'down' but I don't look at it that way.

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Greg Condemi

uatrmpt

Band Director....I get to teach everything but band. I've got four sections of junior high music apprec this semester. Band is completely after school and my only feeder program is pulling elementary kids out of PE. Not a good semester.

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--Matt--

rdt1959

Civil Engineer Consultant specializing in watershed modeling and flood control. Down side(s):

A) Dealing with governement (local, state, and federal) regulations that make us protection everything but people

B) Dealing with politicians that constantly try to tell us how to do the engineering, and then complain when we go over budget fixing the problems they caused.

C) Long hours (my record is 72 hours in the office with no sleep, but I was young then!)

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Dick Taylor
Georgia
Comeback Player
Benge 65B

Dave Mickley

Journeyman Machine Repairman at a GM [soon to be sold] plant. The last 91/2 years have been working as a union appointee as a hyd. and laser align. inst./ skilled trades training coordinator. Have way to many bosses and job assignments are determined by which way the wind is blowing. Rules change un-officially at will and every one keys their belly aching at me and I have to sit there and agree that I am at fault in every case [politics]. Will have my 30 yrs. in Sept. and if my wife can keep a job I will retire and work part-time somewhere. Being a conservative and a union appointee does not go together and get a lot of heat from my other union "brothers". I swear if Charlie Manson was a democrat they would support and vote for him. Dave

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formerly known as old geezer Dave
C7
Yam. 231 Fl. 15383
King Master Cornet 295628
Weril Cornet Lo 7535

FreshBrewed

After leaving the military I decided not to get a job. The great thing is that my wife is really being cool about the whole thing. She said I had done enough over the last 13 years and it was time for me to take a break.

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Mike
Eclipse MHY Bell
1949 Olds Ambassador

Listening has nothing to do with moving your mouth!

dlewis

Middle school music teacher for the last 34 years I do band and Strings

dcstep

I love my job as a risk management consultant to US banks and mortgage banks. After 38-years in business I finally figured out a way to make money while I sleep (we charge based on the size of the risk rather than the time we spend). I've got a mountain view out my office window and live two blocks away, with a slightly different view of the same 14,000' mountains. The weather in Colorado is gorgeous and the family is healthy. I'm really blessed.

Dave

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Selmer Paris -- '57 #20 K-Modified/
'03 Concept TT w/ GR66.8B2.8
'94 Lawler TL cornet w/ Sparx 2B
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Tom Mac

Attorney

As far as day jobs go it's not bad. I worked for the State of Tenn. for nearly 20 yrs before retiring to go into private practice. Now, my problem is making expenses each month and keeping up w/ my own secretarial duties. The worst part is I feel guilty that I'm not working every time I pick up the Trumpet. But, I don't let that bother me that much 'cause I'm a trumpetholic. aaahhahahaha....

T. Mac