Well it's hard to get jobs in most fields these days, so in that regard he's probably not much worse off than anyone else.

As a tuba expert (for lack of a better term) he will probably have a lot of opportunities to travel around the world and play with different people. Sounds like an exciting life to me. Maybe I shouldn't have given up on the viola after high school!

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Ralph

1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...