Comments on: New York Philharmonic cellist quits to become paramedic http://doublebassblog.org/2007/07/new-york-philharmonic-cellist-quits-to-become-paramedic.html double bass news, stories, downloads, podcasts, and more! Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Anonymous http://doublebassblog.org/2007/07/new-york-philharmonic-cellist-quits-to-become-paramedic.html/comment-page-1#comment-847 Anonymous Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:30:00 +0000 http://doublebassblog.org/?p=1402#comment-847 This is really interesting and ironic to me, since I am 46, and am quitting my "six-figure" job to earn "low five-figures" as a music teacher - plus I have to go back to college for 3 years to get the undergrad degree. (meaning no income at all).<br/><br/>I'm hearing more often of people making major mid-life career changes. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes, if it can be afforded. It's easy to see how decades of doing the same thing over and over might burn you out and make you long for something new. This is really interesting and ironic to me, since I am 46, and am quitting my “six-figure” job to earn “low five-figures” as a music teacher – plus I have to go back to college for 3 years to get the undergrad degree. (meaning no income at all).

I’m hearing more often of people making major mid-life career changes. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes, if it can be afforded. It’s easy to see how decades of doing the same thing over and over might burn you out and make you long for something new.

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