<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/7/05 6:17:39 P.M. Central Standard Time, hgreeley@stanford.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Concert work is a crap shoot, no matter how good/bad one might individually be as = a technician.  You/one/_anyone_ is only as good as your/their last tuning...period.  Further, survival is not at all necessarily reserve= d for the most fit.  There is a very simple bottom line which must be addressed before getting too deep into concert work (beyond the point of i= t being a relatively occasional service for the local MTA/whatever); and, th= at is, just how thick is your/anyone's skin?  Doing "real" concert work = is brutal...not at all the way it is seemingly idealized by so many.  On= e either learns to live with the inevitable slings and arrows, or, wisely, o= ne chooses to leave the field to those whose egos either need and/or can withstand the onslaught.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Horace</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you for your advice. This is the one area of concert work that I = need to develop. (creating a thick skin). As far as I know,  this is not&nbs= p;a class I have not seen offered at any convention. <IMG src="http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201d20638/13"></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>