Contemplate THIS.

My eldest brother Adam is a musician. He plays upright bass, currently for no specific orchestra but a musician nonetheless. His lack of steady employment doesn't dome come from lack of talent, but rather lack of jobs available. Since high school, he has been head of his classes and head of his section of the orchestra. When he went to college, he was principal bassist. In graduate school, he was the principal bassist for all of the various levels of orchestras he eventually played with.

It might interest you to know that he is also deaf in his left ear.

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