Hi All, It seems like we are getting carried away with this gender/profession thing. I will agree that our profession has had and will have, many fine lady tuner/techs, but just because a person is a lady does not mean that she automatically will be best. I reckon it to many father/son type situations where the son can't hold a candle to the father. It is a big advantage to have gotten vocational instruction at an earlier age and move on up but it still doesn't carry through that it will work. I have three sons and tried with each of them to follow my footsteps ending in failure. If it isn't in them, it isn't in them. I felt very disheartened that I couldn't get them to' see the light' so to see. Still I wish it could have happened, but it didn't. The one thing I do know, you have to have a real drive to learn this stuff through all your life, not only at the beginning, and to be able to keep it fresh in you so you don't get bored. I would say that being a woman probably gives a person more distractions than a man because of usual family type obligations and I think a woman would have more worry with family as opposed to profession versus family than a man would. I know in my own life work is #1, whether you may judge that as good or bad, but it is also the thing that kept me going through hard times. I think in these early years of women entering the profession we have gotten die hard type individuals who worked very hard to achieve. However once this dam has broken, and it has, we will see women just like some men float in and out because they didn't have the stick-to-it-ness that it takes to make this a life long pursuit. Just my humble opinion. What do you think? James Grebe R.P.T. of the P.T.G. St. Louis, MO. Competent Service since 1962 Do what is right and do no harm Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals pianoman@inlink.com
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