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To: SI Bob who wrote (61)	8/13/2008 2:39:56 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 78

"John, aka Meatloaf [has] helped [my daughter] with the realization that it's okay to pursue the trumpet thing just as far as she can but to be realistic about her chances of ever making a living playing it." November 18, 2003 Free Zone \| Welcome to Investors Hub \| The iHub Wish List siliconinvestor.com Posted by: gotmilk To: IH Yoda [Bob] wordzilla.zip (size=556K) Type a list of letters... ... Bob, Are you sure Darth has 2½ more highschool years before she will leave Boogerville, Missourah and join up with many young adults that just left home still wet behind their ears ready and willing to learn and experience the ways of life outside the protective nest of Mom & Dad home life? Gosh, Darth seems to have already mind wise matured further than most current college kids 4 years older. My Crystal Ball sees Darth at age 23 having a day job as a teacher to gifted students in a large city, and while the regular pay for other teachers in the level she works are not payed that much, Darth has a gift to interact both with young kids and their adult parents at a constructive level that leads to a higher success rate for learning, thus Darth is able to create her own small company Darth Solo Inc. and charge rates x10 what others charge. But Darth's day job is only to pay the house morgage on her big home in the subberbs with 3 arcers of land that once was a big farm house that now has a dozen big rooms made into individual office space that contains musical instrument for use during her day job to teach, and the single most largest room is where her band meets after work to practice for the gigs they perform at each weekend not for the low pay, but for The Love of Music. D:oug November 19, 2003 Free Zone \| Welcome to Investors Hub \| The iHub Wish List siliconinvestor.com Posted by: IH Yoda [Bob] To: gotmilk ... [Darth has] started to make noise recently about maybe wanting to attend another school other than Berklee and not have music as a career. I've told her that's perfectly fine. That I had the option of pursuing a music-related career and decided not to and that I think I'm far happier playing music because I want to rather than because I have to. Meatloaf, my sometimes helper and a member of the site, got his degree in Tuba Performance (he's awesome at it) but has worked most of his life as a geek. Nothing wrong with that at all. There are lots of really talented musicians out there who never play a note to an audience. ... gonna suck being relegated to 2nd trumpet or a trombone this time around though. <g>