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Tikahtnu
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Joined: Jul. 10 2021
From: Alaska
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 RE: What do you do for a living? (in reply to Tikahtnu)
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I usually can't see more than a couple feet. It's a dream job for me. It's very physical, motivates deep and consistent breathing, and don't need to fight against gravity. I love getting paid for top shelf exercise. I see a lot of really cool life down there, and have gotten very good at guiding fish and nudibranchs to the underside of the docks, which have heavy growth and healthy ecosystems. But no, the water isn't crystal clear by any means where I am, but I believe I'm in possibly the best place in the world to do what I do. The bay is relatively shallow, lots of nutrients in the water, and lots of billionaires around here, so the bottoms of their status symbols collect lots of interesting growth. Mussels, oysters, barnacles, sponges, sea squirts, lots of things I've never known the names of. It used to creep me out until I stopped looking at it like one giant organism and started identifying what the individuals were.
These guys like to latch onto my tongue sometimes. They're characters.
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Date Jan. 31 2024 16:48:11
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ernandez R
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From: Alaska USA
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RE: What do you do for a living? (in reply to edguerin)
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ORIGINAL: edguerin
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"What would it be like to live the life you really wanted?"
But, what is the life one really wants?
Well that’s easy enough to answer Ed: what we can not have ;)
And yes I’m being flip but on the other hand not.
I think if we can honestly answer wether we would change anything or not about our path in life. I feel good about both the good and bad in my life, I’ve had my share of both.
Shortly after discovering the depth of the Flamenco world I had a serious revelation about life and death and the want and need and pleasure of life. I shared this as it happened with the Foro a few years ago. It all cumulated with a bottle of Pino, a block of manchago, a jar of oily olives, and a fresh loaf of French bread, tearing off hunks of bread to wipe the olive grease off my fingers and cracking off hunks of cheese, savoring life warming myself up against the brick wall of a grocery store where it was about ten degrees , but what hit me was how I was trying to make eye contact with some one, over here amigo come share this sliver of joy in a ugly world, I wanted to share more then a simple bounty, funny because I might have looked like a crippled homeless man but a had a few hundred in cash and a couple credit cards, I had no real want but I had been hungry and homeless in the past, what a shame I didn’t have one of my guitars right there at that moment, to plat out my crippled compas…
Ha! I got lost. In the end we will be happy and sad regardless of our life choices best to make the most of them.
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy,
doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
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Date Feb. 4 2024 20:09:25
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: What do you do for a living? (in reply to Manitas de Lata)
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Who knows what they really want at 16? And even if you think you do, it could change 180 degrees in a few years.
I am fortunate in that guitar playing never became a "job" even after a few thousand gigs. Some of gigs were definitely a "job" but overall, it's been a fun and rewarding ride.
I agree it's helpful to have more than one passion. I found that my day gig, and the experience it gave me, helped enormously when it came to the music business.
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ORIGINAL: Manitas de Lata
nice "everyday" story , as time passes i realized that if we go very serious like a full time on a thing that we love , we can kill that love , so for me having two major activities or more (work, playing , exercise, study) I can continue to fuel the love for the guitar , and works also from a escape from workin etc
theres some quotes that i like and reflect from them :
"What would it be like to live the life you really wanted?"
"never want to meet your idols personally"
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