On 15/02/2015 11:24, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> This.
>
> Everybody I met at university was like "OMG, this is SOOO boring! Just
> give me the piece of paper so I can start earning thousands of pounds
> per hour as a top London computing consultant."
>
> Everybody seemed to think that computing is *excruciatingly* boring, but
> also that there's billions of pounds in it. Like, if you have any
> computer skills at all, you're going to be a millionaire. (Still, it
> *was* right around the height of the dot-com bubble I suppose...)
>

"They" forgot to mention that the high pay would drop when the demand 
was filled by themselves.



>> Unless you can use your competitive dancing skills to be in front of an
>> audience.
>
> Uh, I do competitive dancing; what makes you think I have *skills*? :-P
>


Performance skills before an audience. I meant.
I did a job a couple of years ago where I had to deliver training 
courses. I had never done anything like it before. When I got my sea 
legs. It was SHOWTIME!!!
I really enjoyed it. But somehow I don't see you being comfortable in 
front of an audience, yet.

> Unless you mean I give the lecture while dancing the quickstep. ^_-
>

Tap would be more appropriate. IMO. ;-)

>>> My Dad tells me [so I don't know how true this is] that Bach was a
>>> virtuoso organ player, but a HORRIBLE teacher. He just couldn't
>>> understand why nobody else could play like him...
>>
>> And his throw away scales became the Brandenburg Concertos.
>
> Hey, I think I have the score for that somewhere...

The story goes that he gave them to his patron to play with his amateur 
orchestra.


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Regards
     Stephen

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