Interesting, Barbara... I had just been thinking about exactly this, but from a very different perspective. When I had gotten thoroughly frustrated in my attempts to find meaningful employment in Corporate America [after having been eliminated in a significant downsizing effort which ended a mostly enjoyable 15-year tenure at a Large Company which now no longer exists,] I decided to investigate the viability of Piano Technology.
<br><br>The first words out of the instructor at the very first (local) school I contacted were "Did you look at my website?" and the second words were "You can make a lot of money in piano technology."
<br><br>The instructor at the second (not local) school I contacted said "I'm not sure what kind of money you're accustomed to making, but you'll be able to afford to..." <br><br>At that point, and still, I am certainly interested in making a decent living, but whether I make the money I was making as a systems programmer supporting large-corporation infrastructure software is immaterial to me.
<br><br>The instructors' comments about money were completely unsolicited and actually unwelcome and off-putting. I wanted to learn a trade that would be rewarding to me and which would put my considerable mechanical ability and musical interests to good use. Money obviously has some bearing, but large quantities are no longer important to me 'cuz I've decided that it's impossible to get to the point of having "too much," so I'll settle for "enough to feed myself and my kids."
<br><br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I hope that when people are thinking
about learning this trade, they're just not thinking, "I can make this
amount of money in such and such time." There is something to actually
being prepared to give good service, too.</font></div>
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