I'd like to thank everyone who took part in the "pin drop" informal survey. I found it a very interesting and reassuring thread, especially the fact that so many of you are in your forties or fifties instead of mid-sixties, and also that the two schools have been graduating eager young people. That was very interesting about Tom Winter sharing a position with a novice, and about experienced people sharing a university job, instead of slogging away all alone. Steve Brady did this with Susan Willanger at UW, and it always seemed an eminently sensible approach to preventing burnout and keeping a private clientele. A private clientele built up over years I feel is a real safety factor, especially if one might someday be faced with getting fired (as a surprising number of us are now and then.) Plus the variety of private clients, and the sociability, and especially the absence of campus politics and governance would be a nice break from unrelieved full time institutional work. I will take it as given that once I hang up the tuning hammer, someone will somehow appear. If I'm still around and kicking by then, I might inform the major schools. Of course, maybe I'll be tuning away and drop dead. I believe Ted Sambell once said, "they'll have to scrape me off the keyboard." <smile> Sure beats hanging on in some miserable hospital or old folks home. Susan Kline, RPT
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